Transatlantic Agency is delighted to welcome Kagiso Lesego Molope, represented by Transatlantic agent Rachel Letofsky. We’re excited to support their work and be part of this next stage in their creative journey.
Kagiso Lesego Molope is an Indigenous novelist and playwright of the San people of Southern Africa. She now lives on the unceded Anishinabe Algonquin territory. She won the the Percy FitzPatrick Award in 2014 And the Ottawa Book Award in 2019, the same year she also won the Inaugural Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Literature. Her first Novel, Dancing in the Dust, was the first novel by an Indigenous South African author to be on the IBBY List. McClelland & Stewart has acquired world rights to her fifth novel We Inherit The Fire.
Welcome, Kagiso!