Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel are working writers – and their favourite people are writers. Their podcast is entitled “Hidden Lives of Writers” and they get into a dive deep into HOW and WHY successful writers write.
Zukiswa Wanner was featured on episode seven where she spoke about her journey starting with her first novel, The Madams, and spills the news that it is currently being translated into Portuguese for the Angolan, Mozambican, and Brazilian markets. Fiona tells Zuki that she has always regarded her as a super-connecter, especially across the African continent, and they reminisce about the early days of their careers. Gail and Zukiswa discuss how to raise good men in the current era of toxic masculinity and how Zuki’s book Men of the South was prophetic in many ways. Zukiswa describes how she came to curate the Artistic Encounters exhibition in Zurich, as well as the Afrolit online literary festivals. After the interview, Fiona and Gail are inspired to try to get their work into African countries, rather than just the Anglo-American markets.
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