mangaliso buzani

Buzani grew up in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, and later trained as a jeweller in Tshwane. His first collection, Ndisabhala Imibongo (Imbizo Arts, 2014), written in isiXhosa, won the 2015 South African Literary Award for poetry. a naked bone (Deep South, 2019) is his first book in English. The title poem from the collection won the 2014 Dalro Prize for the best poem published in the poetry journal New Coin.