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Mala Naidoo

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Mala Naidoo writes thriller and contemporary fiction, short stories and poetry.

Mala is an educator in Australia, who hails from the grip of apartheid atrocities in South Africa, up to the early days of its dismantling.

Mala Naidoo upholds justice for all in her novels and poems on culture, race, gender, and identity. Her writing mission is, ‘In our angst and joy we are ONE under the sky of humanity.'
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Research and Fiction

Historical fiction either reveres, subverts, or shames the past through citing actual places, creating imagined characters and perhaps recreating a historical figure.     Historical fiction is the unequal blending of the real and the imaginary   Time is fluid in historical fiction, moving between the past and present depending on how the plot unfolds. … Continue reading "Research and Fiction"

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Sasha or Robin, which is it? A story so beautifully told of asduming a different identity, entering a new world, but sadly always looking over one's shoulders, never quite free of the heinous cult past! Believing she has finally foun" Read more of this review »
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“Reading is air in my lungs, fire in my blood, company in my thoughts.”
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“Memories don't die, they become shelved in recesses of one's mind, resurfacing when the triggers of life re-ignite them, lighting up the heart, in a warm glow of remembrance. - "Vindication Across Time”
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“You realize you must give in to the muse from afar. You have to heed the inner voice that has come calling.”
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“Reading is air in my lungs, fire in my blood, company in my thoughts.”
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“You learn to be resilient, to survive when you know you are capable of making worthy contribution to the world; you fight it when you have nothing to lose and so much to gain.”
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“Anger and animosity cannot enshrine what was once wonderful...”
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“She was home, the passage walls, memorabilia of Ben's life, past and present, welcomed her like a doting grandmother.”
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“Literature is and should continue to be a vehicle that dispels 'otherness' or the 'outsider”
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