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Niq Mhlongo was born in 1973 in Soweto. He has a BA from the University of the Witwatersrand, with majors in African literature and political studies. His first novel, Dog eat dog, was published by Kwela in 2004 and was translated into Spanish under the title Perro come Perro in 2006. This Spanish edition was awarded the Mar de Letras prize. Besides writing novels and short stories, Niq has written a screenplay for the animated children's TV series Magic cellar and scripts for a comic magazine called Mshana, the first issue of which appeared in February 2007. After tears is his second novel.