His novel Cion, set in southeast Ohio, was nominated for the NAACP Image Award. They have won a number of awards including the Amstel Playwright of the Year Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award and designation as an American Library Association Notable Book. His works have been translated into 20 languages, including Catalan, Korean, Serbian, Norwegian and Italian. He has published sixteen books, eight of which are novels and the rest collections of plays, poetry and a monograph on the theory and practice of theater-for-development. Zakes Mda is a South African writer, painter, filmmaker and music composer. The Center for the Writing Arts at Northwestern University is proud to host a reading by Zakes Mda, the Visiting Writer in Residence for Fall Quarter 2010. To stay up to date on the stories that matter. WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information.
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