About Kgebetli Moele

Kgebetli Moele was born on 31 March 1978. His debut novel, Room 207, was published by Kwela Books in 2006. It was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best First Book (Africa) the following year, and was the joint winner of the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for fiction and joint winner of the University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing in the debut category. Room 207 also received an honourable mention in the English category of the M-Net Book Prize and was one of two South African titles to receive an honourable mention from the Noma Awards committee.