Kopano Matlwa

Dr. Kopano Matlwa Mabaso is a South African medical doctor & novelist. She is currently Executive Director of Grow Great ―a campaign aimed at mobilising South Africa towards achieving a stunting free generation by 2030.

Kopano is a published fiction writer and the winner of the European Literary Award (2007) and joint winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa (2010). Her three novels Coconut, Spilt Milk and Period Pain are social commentaries on post-apartheid South Africa.