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Ijangolet S Ogwang
Ijangolet S Ogwang is a Kenyan born Ugandan-South African writer, born to Uganda parents and raised in a small town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Her debut novel, An Image in a Mirror, was published in 2018 in South Africa by Black Bird Books, where it was a best seller. The novel has been incorporated into multiple-school curriculum in South Africa. It has also been shortlisted for the UJ debut novel award 2019 and long listed for the Dublin Literary award 2020. She has been invited to prestigious literary festivals including the Berlin African Book Festival, the Open Book festival and the Abantu Book festival. An Image in a Mirror was republished in the United Kingdom by Legend Press in 2024. Her day job focuses on investing in ventures that contribute to eradicating poverty. Ijangolet is moved by what is beautiful, trying and all the between of the human experience.
