2: SINDIWE MAGONA is a fiction writer who was born and educated in South Africa. Her autobiography, "To my Children's Children," (Interlink Books) traces her life under the apartheid system. In her memoir, she describes her childhood in a poor South African town, and the hasty end a teenage pregnancy put to her career as a teacher. The memoir won an honorable mention from the 1991 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. MAGONA has also published another novel, "Forced to Grow," and a collection of short stories. She currently works as a translator for the United Nations.
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