Thando Mgqolozana (born Cape Town, South Africa, 27 August 1983) is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, a recipient of the Golden Key International Honour for Scholastic Achievement, and one of the Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans of 2010.
He has previously worked as a researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council and is now based at the University of Cape Town.
Mgqolozana is the author of Hear Me Alone (2011), A Man Who Is Not a Man (2009), a novel that enjoyed critical success and was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award, and Unimportance (2014).