Rešoketšwe Manenzhe is a South African villager and storyteller. Her short stories and poems have appeared in the Kalahari Review, Fireside Fiction, Lolwe, FIYAH, and the 2017 Sol Plaatjie European Union Anthology, among other outlets. She has won the 2019 Writivism Short Story Prize, the 2020 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award, the 2021 Akuko Short Story Competition, the 2021 HSS Award for Best Fiction, the 2021 UJ Prize for South African Fiction in English, the First-Time Author award at the 2021 South African Literary Awards, and she was the first runner-up for the 2019 Collins Elesiro Prize for Fiction. She was shortlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards. She lives in Cape Town.

"In South Africa, tragedy strikes a young family - the mother Black, the father white - in this family history told on an epic scale." — Vanity Fair"With a raconteur’s rhythm, Manenzhe, a South African villager and storyteller, brings to life a painful piece of history, enriched with myths and lore." — Washington Post“Manenzhe debuts with a poetic and wrenching story of one family’s upheaval… the novel feels both grounded and timeless, as Manenzhe fuses this tragedy of South Africa’s segregationist policies with a long tradition of folklore. There’s great heft to this universal story.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)"South African writer Manenzhe’s debut looks back to an especially cruel moment in history when sexual relations between Blacks and Whites were pronounced unlawful, threatening prison for the adults involved....Manenzhe’s poetic narrative, sometimes dreamy, piercing, and lyrical...is threaded with heartache and suffering as well as ancestral myth and symbolism. An elegiac view of colonial and racial injustice." — Kirkus Reviews“Elegant, mythical, heart-wrenching, and beautiful, SCATTERLINGS conveys the profound impact of racism on one South African family.”  — Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, award-winning author of The Revisioners"Rešoketšwe Manenzhe’s writing is exquisite. In SCATTERLINGS, she breathtakingly weaves myth and impossible love with South African politics and history. This is a book to be read and reread." — Ayesha Harruna Attah, author of The Hundred Wells of Salaga and Zainab Takes New York"Set in South Africa in 1927, this powerful novel chronicles the unravelling of a biracial family in the wake of the Immorality Act, which outlawed sexual relations between white and Black people. . . . Manenzhe situates this tragic tale within the broader context of the displacement and abuse of Africans caused by colonialism and the slave trade, but her achievement is to humanize the victims of that legacy, in a story that feels like an act of restoration.” — The New Yorker“At once exquisitely intimate and globally ambitious....Manenzhe's words are full of a wild, roaming intelligence that drifts into both intense philosophical exploration and acknowledgments of the unknowable. Yet the book is a swift, brutal read, full of suspense about the big and small questions of living....In this book, the people must run, but the ideas stay.” — The New York Times Book Review"Weaving myths and journal entries with expressive prose, Resoketswe Manenzhe delivers a powerful novel exploring ancestry, belonging, and home." — Christian Science Monitor

Rešoketšwe Manenzhe is a South African villager and storyteller. Her short stories and poems have appeared in the Kalahari Review, Fireside Fiction, Lolwe, FIYAH, and the 2017 Sol Plaatjie European Union Anthology, among other outlets. She has won the 2019 Writivism Short Story Prize, the 2020 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award, the 2021 Akuko Short Story Competition, the 2021 HSS Award for Best Fiction, the 2021 UJ Prize for South African Fiction in English, the First-Time Author award at the 2021 South African Literary Awards, and she was the first runner-up for the 2019 Collins Elesiro Prize for Fiction. She was shortlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards. She lives in Cape Town.

"In South Africa, tragedy strikes a young family - the mother Black, the father white - in this family history told on an epic scale." — Vanity Fair"With a raconteur’s rhythm, Manenzhe, a South African villager and storyteller, brings to life a painful piece of history, enriched with myths and lore." — Washington Post“Manenzhe debuts with a poetic and wrenching story of one family’s upheaval… the novel feels both grounded and timeless, as Manenzhe fuses this tragedy of South Africa’s segregationist policies with a long tradition of folklore. There’s great heft to this universal story.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)"South African writer Manenzhe’s debut looks back to an especially cruel moment in history when sexual relations between Blacks and Whites were pronounced unlawful, threatening prison for the adults involved....Manenzhe’s poetic narrative, sometimes dreamy, piercing, and lyrical...is threaded with heartache and suffering as well as ancestral myth and symbolism. An elegiac view of colonial and racial injustice." — Kirkus Reviews“Elegant, mythical, heart-wrenching, and beautiful, SCATTERLINGS conveys the profound impact of racism on one South African family.”  — Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, award-winning author of The Revisioners"Rešoketšwe Manenzhe’s writing is exquisite. In SCATTERLINGS, she breathtakingly weaves myth and impossible love with South African politics and history. This is a book to be read and reread." — Ayesha Harruna Attah, author of The Hundred Wells of Salaga and Zainab Takes New York"Set in South Africa in 1927, this powerful novel chronicles the unravelling of a biracial family in the wake of the Immorality Act, which outlawed sexual relations between white and Black people. . . . Manenzhe situates this tragic tale within the broader context of the displacement and abuse of Africans caused by colonialism and the slave trade, but her achievement is to humanize the victims of that legacy, in a story that feels like an act of restoration.” — The New Yorker“At once exquisitely intimate and globally ambitious....Manenzhe's words are full of a wild, roaming intelligence that drifts into both intense philosophical exploration and acknowledgments of the unknowable. Yet the book is a swift, brutal read, full of suspense about the big and small questions of living....In this book, the people must run, but the ideas stay.” — The New York Times Book Review"Weaving myths and journal entries with expressive prose, Resoketswe Manenzhe delivers a powerful novel exploring ancestry, belonging, and home." — Christian Science Monitor

Rešoketšwe Manenzhe is a South African villager and storyteller. Her short stories and poems have appeared in the Kalahari Review, Fireside Fiction, Lolwe, FIYAH, and the 2017 Sol Plaatjie European Union Anthology, among other outlets. She has won the 2019 Writivism Short Story Prize, the 2020 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award, the 2021 Akuko Short Story Competition, the 2021 HSS Award for Best Fiction, the 2021 UJ Prize for South African Fiction in English, the First-Time Author award at the 2021 South African Literary Awards, and she was the first runner-up for the 2019 Collins Elesiro Prize for Fiction. She was shortlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards. She lives in Cape Town.

"In South Africa, tragedy strikes a young family - the mother Black, the father white - in this family history told on an epic scale." — Vanity Fair"With a raconteur’s rhythm, Manenzhe, a South African villager and storyteller, brings to life a painful piece of history, enriched with myths and lore." — Washington Post“Manenzhe debuts with a poetic and wrenching story of one family’s upheaval… the novel feels both grounded and timeless, as Manenzhe fuses this tragedy of South Africa’s segregationist policies with a long tradition of folklore. There’s great heft to this universal story.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)"South African writer Manenzhe’s debut looks back to an especially cruel moment in history when sexual relations between Blacks and Whites were pronounced unlawful, threatening prison for the adults involved....Manenzhe’s poetic narrative, sometimes dreamy, piercing, and lyrical...is threaded with heartache and suffering as well as ancestral myth and symbolism. An elegiac view of colonial and racial injustice." — Kirkus Reviews“Elegant, mythical, heart-wrenching, and beautiful, SCATTERLINGS conveys the profound impact of racism on one South African family.”  — Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, award-winning author of The Revisioners"Rešoketšwe Manenzhe’s writing is exquisite. In SCATTERLINGS, she breathtakingly weaves myth and impossible love with South African politics and history. This is a book to be read and reread." — Ayesha Harruna Attah, author of The Hundred Wells of Salaga and Zainab Takes New York"Set in South Africa in 1927, this powerful novel chronicles the unravelling of a biracial family in the wake of the Immorality Act, which outlawed sexual relations between white and Black people. . . . Manenzhe situates this tragic tale within the broader context of the displacement and abuse of Africans caused by colonialism and the slave trade, but her achievement is to humanize the victims of that legacy, in a story that feels like an act of restoration.” — The New Yorker“At once exquisitely intimate and globally ambitious....Manenzhe's words are full of a wild, roaming intelligence that drifts into both intense philosophical exploration and acknowledgments of the unknowable. Yet the book is a swift, brutal read, full of suspense about the big and small questions of living....In this book, the people must run, but the ideas stay.” — The New York Times Book Review"Weaving myths and journal entries with expressive prose, Resoketswe Manenzhe delivers a powerful novel exploring ancestry, belonging, and home." — Christian Science Monitor