Masterclass: Discovering your Voice

with Kagiso Lesego Molope

Hosted by Francesca Ekwuyasi

Live Online Streaming Fiction Youth

Admission

Free

Monday

Nov , 2020

7:30pm

Eastern

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Kagiso Lesego Molope · Photo by Rémi Thériault

Molope's prose is exhilarating and she shines in the development of a character that you not only root for, but are desperate to defend.

Quill and Quire, Editor's Choice

Don’t miss this conversation on writing craft that focusses on Writing an Authentic Voice.

Francesca Ekwuyasi, whose debut novel, BUTTER HONEY PIG BREAD, was long listed for the 2020 Giller Prize, hosts the conversation with Ottawa’s own Kagiso Lesego Molope. Her novel, This Book Betrays My Brother won the Ottawa Book Award, and was included as a Kirkus Reviews' Best Books, Globe 100, CBC Books, Top YA Pick and Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books and her follow up Such a Lonely, Lovely Road won the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing.

Suitable for young writers aged 13+, this event is presented by Republic Of Childhood and OPL’s Ottawa Reads YA/Ottawa Boutique

The Authors

Kagiso Lesego Molope

Kagiso Lesego Molope is an Indigenous novelist and playwright of the San people of Southern Africa. She is the author of four other novels: Dancing in the Dust, which was on the IBBY Honour List for 2006; The Mending Season; Such a Lonely, Lovely Road; and This Book Betrays My Brother. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award four times. She is the winner of the 2014 Percy FitzPatrick Award, the 2019 Ottawa Book Award for Fiction, and the 2019 inaugural Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award. Across Southern Africa and in parts of Europe, her works are read in schools in several languages. She wrote the play Maya Angelou: Black Woman Rising, which was staged for five years at Oslo’s Nordic Black Theatre. She lives on the unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabe Algonquin territory.