2020 Goethe Medaille recipient ZukiswaWanner is a South African writer, editor, curator and publisher born in Zambia, raised in Zimbabwe and currently based in Kenya but who considers the whole African continent her home. In 2014 she was selected among 39 writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define trends in African literature. In 2015, she won the K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award for London Cape Town Joburg (2014). Her debut work as a publisher, a children's anthology Story StoryStory Come has been translated into four African languages and she hopes to have more translations. She also published Mukomawa Ngugi's We, The Scarred in early 2020.
