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Imraan Coovadia

About 
Imraan Coovadia is the author of the novels The Wedding, Green-Eyed Thieves, High Low In-between, The Institute for Taxi Poetry, Tales of the Metric System,  and  A Spy in Time.  He has also published a study of VS Naipaul, as well as a collection of essays,  Transformations,  and has contributed to publications including The New York Times,  the  Los Angeles Review of Books, N+1, The Independent, Threepenny Review, Chimurenga,  and  The Times of India.  He is a winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the University of Johannesburg Prize, the M-Net Prize, and a South African Literary Award for Non-Fiction. A graduate of Harvard College, he directs the creative writing programme at the University of Cape Town.

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Titles by this author

The Poisoners is a history of four devastating chapters in the making of the region...
The Poisoners is a history of four devastating chapters in the making of the...
Making sure the end of the world never happens again – that is Enver Eleven’s...
Making sure the end of the world never happens again – that is Enver Eleven’s...
From a Natal boarding school in the seventies and Soviet spies in London in the eighties to...
From a Natal boarding school in the seventies and Soviet spies in London in the eighties to...
From a Natal boarding school in the seventies and Soviet spies in London in the eighties to...

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What does Playboy magazine have to do with Nabokov’s infamous novel...

Solly Greenfields, the first of the taxi poets, has been shot dead. At the Institute for Taxi...

Solly Greenfields, the first of the taxi poets, has been shot dead. At the Institute for Taxi...