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Sindiwe Magona has written a two-volume autobiography (the first part of which was her first published work), a biography of Archbishop Ndungane, as well as short story collections, poetry and novels. She has also written more than 100 books for children – we won’t be looking at these in this study guide, however.
The novels
| PUBLICATION DATE | TITLE |
| 1998 | Mother to Mother |
| 2006 | The Best Meal Ever |
| 2008 | Beauty’s Gift |
Mother to Mother was Magona’s first published novel, and it remains her most famous and successful work. The Best Meal Ever is set in a South African township and is about a girl having to look after her younger siblings. Beauty’s Gift is a novel about a group of women and how they deal with the HIV/AIDS-related death of one of their circle of friends.
Short story collections
| PUBLICATION DATE | TITLE |
| 1991 | Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night |
| 1996 | Push-push! And Other Stories |
As with her novels, Magona’s short stories draw on her personal experiences and are all concerned with South African social issues, in particular those affecting women.
Poetry
| PUBLICATION DATE | TITLE |
| 2009 | Please, Take Photographs |
Autobiographies
| PUBLICATION DATE | TITLE |
| 1990 | To My Children’s Children |
| 1992 | Forced to Grow |
To My Children’s Children, Magona’s first published work, is an open letter to her grandchildren in which she tells the story of her own life up to the age of 23, and shares what she can of Xhosa culture and traditions. She presents herself explicitly as a “Xhosa grandmother”, and the book is of interest as a personal memoir, as an eyewitness account of the apartheid era, as an anthropological study of Xhosa tribal customs and folklore, and as a study of how women of all ages suffer and are oppressed under patriarchal social systems. Forced to Grow continues her autobiography from the age of 23 on.
Biography
| PUBLICATION DATE | TITLE |
| 2012 | From Robben Island to Bishop’s Court |
This is a biography of Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, who was a pioneering anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela also spent many years in prison. After being released from jail he continued to work to end apartheid, and campaigned for the rights of HIV positive people, equal rights for women and protecting the poor and dispossessed.
Children’s books
| PUBLICATION DATE | TITLE |
| Not yet published | The Stranger and His Flute, |
| Greedy Man, Kind Rock | |
| Nokulunga, Mother of Goodness | |
| Stronger Than Lion | |
| Buhle, the Calf of Many Colours | |
| The Woman on the Moon |
Magona has written more than 100 books for children over the years. This forthcoming series of books[9] for children will be published in four South African languages as well as in English. These tales are intended by Magona to promote reading in general – she worries that South Africa lacks a culture of reading – as well as supporting and promoting literacy in African languages.
