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Rachel Zadok

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Rachel Zadok is a writer, editor, publisher and the curator of Short Story Day Africa, a platform for African fiction. She has a National Diploma in Fine Arts. Her first novel, Gem Squash Tokoloshe (Pan Macmillan), was shortlisted for The Whitbread First Novel Award and The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and longlisted for the IMPAC award. Her second novel, Sister-sister (Kwela Books 2013) was nominated for the Herman Charles Bosman Prize and the UJ Prize.

She has published three anthologies of African short fiction as curator of Short Story Day Africa. Feast, Famine & Potluck, Terra Incognita and Water.

She lives in Cape Town with her husband and daughter.