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Poet Name: Mtshali, Oswald Mbuyiseni
Given Name: Oswald Mbuyiseni
Last Name: Mtshali
Date of Birth: 17 January 1940
Biography: Oswald Joseph Mtshali was born in 1940 in South Africa. Living under apartheid, Mtshali published his first volume of poetry, "Sounds of a Cowhide Drum," in 1971, which is still regarded as a landmark in South African literature. Mtshali moved to the United States to study creative writing. In 1971, Mtshali was awarded the Olive Schreiner Poetry Prize, and in 1973, he was granted the Poetry International Award in London.

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Education: University of Iowa; Columbia University
News Items: Stranger's Voice; Poetry International 73; Stranger's Voice; African Honeymoon; Poetry International; A garbled message; From recent issues; Quiet and disquiet; From veld-lovers to freedom fighters
Events: Conference of the English Academy of Southern Africa at Rhodes University; Poetry International
Works: Okike: An African Journal of New Writing; Fireflames; Sounds of a Cowhide Drum; A Rosary of Bone: second edition, with more poems; The White Hail in the Orchard and other poems; Fireflames; The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse; Black Writers from South Africa: Towards a discourse of liberation
Close Relationships: Walder, Dennis; Donne, John; Dugmore, Henry Hare 'H. H.'; Lo Liyong, Taban; Schreiner, Olive; Mphahlele, Ezekiel 'Es'kia'; Moodie, Duncan Campbell Francis 'D. C. F.'; Theodorakis, Mikis; Osborne, Charles ' - Edward'; Eberhart, Richard; Ndichu, Stephen; Mtshali, Mbuyiseni; Kallman, Chester; Sheik-Abdi, Abdi; Livingstone, Douglas; Salkey, Andrew; Gray, Stephen; Young, Hugo 'Smelter'; Ginsberg, Allen; Popa, Vasko; MacDiarmid, Hugh; Molefe, Zuluboy Arthur 'ZB'; Malusu, Joseph M.; Quasimodo, Salvatore; Bunting, Basil; Opiche, J. A.; Gordimer, Nadine; Norman, Frank; Serote, Mongane; McKuen, Rod; Nazareth, Peter; Kinsella, Thomas; Odour-Otieno, Barry; Nkosi, Lewis; Porter, Peter; Auden, Wystan Hugh 'W. H.'; Lorca, Federico García; Yevtushenko, Yevgeny; Liyong, Taban Lo; P'Bitek, Okot; Breytenbach, Breyten; Mann, Chris 'Christopher Michael Zithulele'; Sepamla, Sydney 'Sydney Sipho Sepamla'; Plomer, William; Butler, Guy; Pringle, Thomas; Selwyn, W.; Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho; Currey, Ralph Nixon 'R. N.'; Nortje, Arthur; Driver, Charles Jonathan 'Jonty'; Achebe, Chinua 'Albert Chinualumogu'; Gwala, Pascal; Paton, Alan; Motjuwadi, Stanley; Eglington, Charles; Lewin, Hugh; Campbell, Roy; Cope, Robert Knox 'Jack'; Clouts, Sydney; Kunene, Mazisi 'Raymond'; Rive, Richard; Adams, Perseus 'Peter Robert Charles'; Aylen, Leo; Cullinan, Patrick; Prince, Frank Templeton 'F. T.'; Serote, Mongane Wally; Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.'; Horn, Peter Rudolf Gisela; Hamilton, William Robert 'W. R.'; Watson, Stephen
Place of Birth: South Africa, Kwa-Zulu-Natal, Vryheid
Spatial Coverage: Vryheid
Region: Southern Africa
Commentaries: Oswald Joseph Mbuyiseni Mtshali: A South African Poet Whose Collection’s Sales Shocked Critics
Type: Poets in the News