: About Me

An essayist and novelist, Glynnis Hayward was born and educated in South Africa, where she graduated from the University of Natal and began teaching English in her home town of Durban. She has since lived and taught on three continents but has made her home in Northern California since 1979.

In 2008 she won a Pulitzer Center Award for Citizen Journalism.  Her prize-winning essay discussed how discrimination and stigma perpetuate the global Aids/HIV epidemic.

In 2007 "A SIGNIFICANT TEST OF BLOOD"  was published, a novel set in contemporary South Africa and California. It challenges the reader to consider what makes a victim - circumstances or self-pity.

In 2003 her first novel was published.  "A TELLING TIME"  is set in Durban during the dark days of apartheid-era South Africa. Bigotry comes close to destroying families and society, yet amidst the turmoil of those times, love and reconciliation bloom.

In her fiction writing, she shows the inter-connectedness of global problems. Her novels received mention in the Journal for Commonwealth Literature alongside such illustrious South African writers as Nobel Laureates and Booker prize winners, Alan Paton, Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing and J.M. Coetzee. She is currently working on a third novel.

A TELLING TIME and A SIGNIFICANT TEST OF BLOOD can be found on KINDLE and at:www.e-bookstore.co; www.amazon.uk; www.amazon.ca; www.mightyape.com.au; www.borders.com.au; www.nbcindia.com; www.lekkerplanet.co.za/Books; www2.loot.co.za; www.publishamerica.com; www.barnesandnoble.com; www.amazon.com

My passion is ...

being with people I love - or at least communicating with them.

I know too much about ...

sitting in airplanes for long-haul flights.

My parents always told me ...

to look up and see the stars, rather than looking down and seeing the dirt.

My childhood ambition ...

was to explore the world and become a teacher.

Why I write ...

My thoughts become clearer when I write them down, and I become so engrossed in the characters I create when writing fiction, that I have to discover more about them. They direct me!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Frozen Leopard

My first job ...

Teaching swimming

Arts & Humanities > Asia, Africa & Mideast History A history of the Zulu people in Africa

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The Zulu nation is part of the Nguni people of Southern Africa.  Zulus were one of many clans that became united by the great Shaka Zulu, described as the Napoleon of Africa.  He was the illegitimate son of Chief Senzangakona of what was then a small clan, the Zulu, and he came to the throne in 1816 after his father's death.  At that time there were over fifty independent clans among the Nguni, each with sub-clans, in what we now know as Kwazulu.  Because they were united into one nation by Shaka, the real history of the Zulu nation can be said to begin with his re...

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