Last December, during the Cop 17 United Nation’s Climate Change Conference in Durban, I found myself alongside a Nigerian, Senegalese and Kenyan woman in the International Convention Centre’s prayer room. They were speaking in hushed tones when I entered but I soon gathered that the topic of discussion was how best to tighten their muscles […]
Shubnum Khan
Shubnum Khan was once romantic, young and intelligent. Now she writes to make sense of the world. She has an honours degree in Media Studies and a masters in English and lectures at UKZN. She's also written a novel (Onion Tears, Penguin, 2011), pens political cartoons, dabbles in poetry and is currently working on her second novel, Paper Flowers. Don't expect the usual political stuff from her -- she hates expectations, except perhaps, Great Expectations which is one of her favourite novels. You can follow her on Twitter at @ShubnumKhan
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The glamourisation of the writer
By Shubnum Khan When I was young and easily influenced by the likes of Chicken Soup for the Soul and Dr Phil, I scratched a line in my Life Goal book: Publish a novel by 25. And while I even surprised myself when I did it, I think it proves that all my life I […]