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Bessie Head was a South African writer who is considered Botswana's most influential writer. She wrote novels, short fiction and autobiographical works that explore spiritual and social issues.
Bessie Emery Head (born July 6, 1937, Pietermaritzburg, S.Af.—died April 17, 1986, Serowe, Botswana) was an African writer who described the contradictions and shortcomings of pre- and postcolonial African society in morally didactic novels and stories.
Dec 3, 2011 · Learn about the life and works of Bessie Head, a biracial South African writer who became a citizen of Botswana. She wrote novels such as When Rain Clouds Gather and Maru, and faced mental illness and political persecution.
Bessie Amelia Head was a teacher, author and journalist who wrote about apartheid and mixed-race identity. She left South Africa for Botswana in 1964 and published her acclaimed novel Maru in 1971.
Internationally recognized South African author who lived as an exile in Botswana for 15 years before being granted citizenship there. Pronunciation: HED.
Aug 26, 2011 · In her first published novel, When Rain Clouds Gather, the South African writer Bessie Head’s protagonist, Makhaya, is fearful of the ‘living death a man could be born into,’, seeking instead to establish ‘his own living life’ (Head 1989, 136) .
Mar 9, 2023 · Nkateko Masinga, a South African writer and scholar, shares how Bessie Head's novel A Question of Power, about a woman with mental illness, resonates with her own experience and understanding of powerlessness. She explores the themes of abuse, dissociation, and spirituality in the novel and in her own life.
