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Rachel Zadok is a writer, editor, publisher and the curator of Short Story Day Africa, a platform for African fiction. She has a National Diploma in Fine Arts. Her first novel, Gem Squash Tokoloshe (Pan Macmillan), was shortlisted for The Whitbread First Novel Award and The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and longlisted for the IMPAC award. Her second novel, Sister-sister (Kwela Books 2013) was nominated for the Herman Charles Bosman Prize and the UJ Prize.

She has published three anthologies of African short fiction as curator of Short Story Day Africa. Feast, Famine & Potluck, Terra Incognita and Water.

She lives in Cape Town with her husband and daughter.

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	Gem Squash Tokoloshe 3.41 avg rating — 593 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Water: New Short Story Fiction from Africa: An Anthology from Short Story Day Africa by Nick Mulgrew (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Karina M. Szczurek (Editor), Rachel Zadok (Goodreads Author) (Curator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sister-Sister 4.40 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa by Karina M. Szczurek (Editor), Jason Mykl Snyman (Editor), Rachel Zadok (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terra Incognita: New Short Speculative Stories from Africa by Nerine Dorman (Goodreads Author), Rachel Zadok (Goodreads Author) (curator/editor), Diane Awerbuck (Contributor) 3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De Vrouw Met Het Witte Haar 2.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Maddy Moona's Menagerie: "Coloured Bedtime StoryBook" (Asian Children Literature Book 11) by Rachel Zadok (Goodreads Author), Candace di Talamo 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I'm a little obsessive about protecting my personal privacy: my innermost emotions and thoughts and even the events that trigger them. Feelings about work do not fall into this category because writing for publication is already a public act. I write alone, yes, but I write for a reader. Pulic-ation: get it? I write for an ideal reader in the hope tha Read more of this blog post »

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