Kgebetli Moele

Kgebetli Miele is a South African writer born in Polokwane, South Africa, best known for his novels Room 207, UNTITLED and The Book of the Dead. Quotes A book engages with and challenges one’s mind, at least my mind. It sharpens the mind, revealing the world. I have lived in a block of houses called Buckingham Palace in District Six, Cape Town; I took a raft down the Mississippi and went adrift on the Nile in the many souls of the people that I have lived within the pages [call it fiction, but I say reality inspires fiction]. Most importantly, I have interpreted the experience and challenged it in my own way. I am not sure if books change lives but I am sure that books have inspired my life and fulfilled the voids in it. My first girlfriend, I found her between the covers and more than anything else I discovered and understood this self far better. If any of these count as consequences of reading a book, the book will be Bogobe bja Tswitswi. everyday writing routine, it could make this writer’s life liveable. If I am writing, I want to do it in the shortest time possible, breathe it, wash it, eat it and sleep it until I get to the end of it — at times I wish I could wire my mind to the computer and just download; this is not everyday. External links Category:Living people Category:Authors from South Africa