Koleka Putuma

Koleka Putuma is a South African poet, writer, theatre practitioner and publisher. Her debut poetry collection Collective Amnesia won the 2018 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. Later work includes Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In, We Have Everything We Need to Start Again and the theatre production No Easter Sunday for Queers. Putuma founded Manyano Media and received the 2022 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Poetry.

Koleka Putuma is a South African poet, writer, theatre practitioner and publisher. Her debut poetry collection Collective Amnesia won the 2018 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. Later work includes Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In, We Have Everything We Need to Start Again and the theatre production No Easter Sunday for Queers. Putuma founded Manyano Media and received the 2022 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Poetry.