SPILT MILK

195 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (2010) 2025

A novel by Kopano Matlwa, which explores the relationship between a school principal, Mohumagadi, and a disgraced preacher, Father Bill, at an elite school for talented black children.

Kopano Matlwa won the 2006/2007 European Union Award for Coconut, and subsequently jointly won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in 2010. Her successive novels are Period Pain and Bosadi. Matlwa, who has a Master’s in Global Health Science and a doctorate in Population Health from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, works as a public health physician in Johannesburg.