Lewis Nkosi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lewis Nkosi

South African writer and essayist

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1936

Place of Birth: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Date of Death: 05-Sep-2010

Profession: writer, composer, university teacher, journalist

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Lewis Nkosi (5 December 1936 – 5 September 2010) was a South African writer, who spent 30 years in exile as a consequence of restrictions placed on him and his writing by the Suppression of Communism Act and the Publications and Entertainment Act passed in the 1950s and 1960s.
A multifaceted personality, he attempted every literary genre, literary criticism, poetry, drama, novels, short stories, essays, as well as journalism.