Nick Mulgrew Explained

Birth Place:Durban, South Africa
Nationality:South African, British
Occupation:Writer and publisher
Years Active:2013—
Website:nickmulgrew.co.za

Nick Mulgrew (born 1990) is a South African-British[1] novelist, poet, and editor.[2] In addition to his writing, he is the founder and director of the poetry press uHlanga.[3]

Education

Mulgrew studied English and Journalism at Rhodes University, Makhanda, and later at the University of Cape Town,[4] at which he was a Mandela Rhodes Scholar.[5] He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Dundee.[6]

Writing

Mulgrew is the author of four books, and is best known for his short fiction. His first collection of stories, Stations, was published in 2016 when he was 25. The book was longlisted for the 2017 Edge Hill Short Story Prize[7] and shortlisted for the 2017 Nadine Gordimer Award.[8] Mulgrew eventually won the 2018 Nadine Gordimer Award with his second collection of stories, The First Law of Sadness, which was published in 2017.[9] His stories have elsewhere appeared in The White Review, World Literature Today, and New Contrast.

His first novel, A Hibiscus Coast, was published in South Africa by Karavan Press in 2021.[10] In 2023, he Karavan press published his second novel, Tunnel.

His first poetry collection, the myth of this is that we're all in this together, was published by uHlanga in 2015.[11]

Publishing

In 2014, Mulgrew founded the poetry press uHlanga,[12] which he operates and directs. Mulgrew commissions and designs all of the press's books, and edits most of them.[13]

uHlanga has launched the careers in publication of many South African poets, most notably Maneo Mohale and Koleka Putuma, who are both winners of the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry for titles published by uHlanga.[14] [15]

The press's authors and books have also won various South African awards, including two Ingrid Jonker Prizes (for Failing Maths and My Other Crimes by Thabo Jijana[16] and Zikr by Saaleha Idrees Bamjee[17]) and two South African Literary Awards for Poetry (for Prunings by Helen Moffett[18] and All the Places by Musawenkosi Khanyile[19]).

Mulgrew was a founding associate editor of the Cape Town-based literary magazine Prufrock, and continued to be its fiction editor until it ceased publication.[20]

Other work and awards

From 2013 to 2015, Mulgrew was the beer critic for South African Sunday Times.[21]

Mulgrew is the winner of the 2016 Thomas Pringle Award for Short Stories,[22] the National Arts Festival Short Sharp Stories Awards in 2014,[23] and a South African Arts Journalism Awards Special Silver Merit for Features, 2014. He was shortlisted for The White Review Prize [24] and the Ake/Air France Prize for Prose in 2015.[25] He was also a nominee for the South African Arts Journalist of the Year Award in 2014.[26]

Mulgrew won the 2022 K. Sello Duiker Memorial Award for his novel A Hibiscus Coast.[27]

Bibliography

Novels

Short story collections

Poetry

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ryman. Geoff. Strange Horizons - Nick Mulgrew. Strange Horizons. 15 November 2017. 24 December 2017.
  2. Web site: Nick Mulgrew – Biography . www.nickmulgrew.co.za . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141105231840/http://www.nickmulgrew.co.za/biography/ . 2014-11-05.
  3. Web site: About. 2021-08-09. uHlanga. en-US.
  4. Web site: Rhodes University . www.ru.ac.za . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140818092052/http://www.ru.ac.za/jms/jmsnews/nickmulgrew.html . 2014-08-18.
  5. Web site: Nicholas Mulgrew | the Mandela Rhodes Foundation . 15 February 2016 . 15 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171215112124/https://mandelarhodes.org/the-scholars/scholar/nicholas-mulgrew/ . dead .
  6. Web site: Nick Mulgrew – Moving to Edinburgh. 2021-08-09. Nick Mulgrew. en-ZA.
  7. Web site: Short Story Prize organisers announce diverse longlist for 2017 competition. Edge Hill University. 20 March 2017.
  8. Web site: Shortlist for 2017 South African Literary Awards announced. Books LIVE. 24 December 2017.
  9. Web site: 2018-11-07. [The JRB Daily] 2018 South African Literary Awards winners announced—Mongane Wally Serote is South Africa's new Poet Laureate]. 2020-11-09. The Johannesburg Review of Books. en-US.
  10. Web site: 2021-04-09. Karavan Press title: A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew. 2021-08-09. Karavan Press. en.
  11. Web site: Nick Mulgrew, the myth of this is that we're all in this together. 2021-08-09. uHlanga. en-US.
  12. Web site: 'Liminal spaces': An interview with Nick Mulgrew. 13 January 2016.
  13. Web site: Guest. Africa in Words. 2020-11-27. Q&A: Words on the Times– Nick Mulgrew, founder & director of uHlanga Press. 2021-08-09. en.
  14. Web site: 2019-06-02. Koleka Putuma's Collective Amnesia Wins the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, Nick Makoha & Dami Ajayi Shortlisted. 2021-08-09. Brittle Paper. en-US.
  15. Web site: Mohale wins Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. 2021-08-09. news.unl.edu. en.
  16. Web site: Thabo Jijana wins the 2016 Ingrid Jonker Prize for Failing Maths and My Other Crimes. Books LIVE. 24 December 2017.
  17. Web site: Saaleha Idrees Bamjee wins the 2020 Ingrid Jonker Prize for Poetry in English. 2021-08-09. uHlanga. en-US.
  18. Web site: 2017 South African Literary Awards winners announced!. Books LIVE. 24 December 2017.
  19. Web site: Musawenkosi Khanyile wins the 2020 SALA for Poetry in English. 2021-08-09. uHlanga. en-US.
  20. Web site: Home . KZN Literary Tourism.
  21. Web site: On the hop: Nick Mulgrew. 2021-08-09. TimesLIVE. en-ZA.
  22. Web site: Nick Mulgrew receives the prestigious Thomas Pringle Short Story Award. New Africa Books. 24 December 2017.
  23. Web site: Congratulations to the Short.Sharp.Stories. Adults Only winners. Two Dogs / Mercury @ Books LIVE. 2016-01-31.
  24. Web site: Prizes - The White Review.
  25. Web site: Ake/Air France Prize . 2016-01-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151207001626/http://www.akefestival.org/index.php/ake-airfrance-prize/215-ake-airfrance-prize . 2015-12-07 .
  26. http://www.basa.co.za/festival-and-basa-announce-arts-journalism-awards/
  27. Web site: LitNet . 2022-11-10 . Press release: 2022 South African Literary Awards winners announced . 2022-11-23 . LitNet.
  28. Book: Nick . Mulgrew . Tunnel . 2023 . Karavan Press . Cape Town . 9780639774855 . 16 July 2023.

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