Författare: Zakes Mda

ZAKES MDA (full names: Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda) is a South African writer, painter, composer and film maker. A novelist, poet and playwright of more than twenty works, he has won numerous literary awards in South Africa and the United States. When he isn’t writing, Zakes splits his time between teaching creative writing at Ohio University and beekeeping in the Eastern Cape. He is honorary patron of the Market Theatre, Johannesburg. ”Rachel’s Blue” was written as a response to the legal situation that persists in many US states today – that the father of a child conceived as the result of a rape can still claim the same paternity rights as any other father.