Tlali, Miriam
Related Category: Miscellaneous English Literature, 20th cent.: Biographies
(tlä´lē), 1933–, South African novelist, b. Johannesburg. One of the first to write about
Soweto, Tlali is known for her semiautobiographical novel
Muriel at Metropolitan (1975; later published under its original title,
Between Two Worlds) and a novel,
Amandla (1980), and stories,
Footprints in the Quag (1989), about Soweto. She writes a column, “Soweto Speaking,” for
Staffrider, a radical arts journal, and edits a literary magazine for women,
Straight Ahead International.
