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Nathaniel Ziphoezinhle Mpofu was born on the 10th of August 1991 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He attended Mtshingwe Primary School, and Mzingwane High School before Bulawayo Polytechnic College where he studied Library and Information Science. Currently he is a librarian at the largest castle full of books in his city: the Bulawayo Public Library. Therein he is always surrounded by writers and books; stories and atoms of diction.
In 2015 Nathaniel published his first novel for young adults, 'The Parallel World.' In a curious turn of literary events it became the inspiration for his ROIL BAA Outstanding fiction award winning novel, 'Inkless Quills.' Which would be published later in 2018. In between these opuses, Nathaniel published five (5) books. Another novel for young adults in 2015, 'The Unreader'; 2 short story anthologies in 2016, 'Maktub, I.The 1st edition,' and 'Maktub, I. The 2nd edition.' In 2017, he then published a memoir, 'No.44 Andrea Drive' and a poetry anthology, 'Poetic Potions.' His latest book, 'The Colour of Alchemy' is another poetry anthology. It was published in 2019.
Books by Nathaniel Z. Mpofu
The Parallel World (2015); The Unreader (2015); Maktub, I. The 1st edition (2016); Maktub, I. The 2nd edition (2016); No.44 Andrea Drive (2017); Poetic Potions (2017); Inkless Quills (2018); The colour of Alchemy (2019)
Links to works
Author's Website:
https://nathanielmpofu.wixsite.com/website
Author’s Page on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/author/nathanielmpofu
Author’s Page on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/16149936-nathaniel-mpofu
Author’s Page on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nathaniel_Z._Mpofu
Library of congress online catalogue links:
https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/searchsearchType=7&searchId=13972&maxResultsPerPage=25&rec Count=25&recPointer=0&resultPointer=13&
Wordpress site:
https://wordpress.com/posts/penmastersandmistresses.wordpress.com
African Global Networks poetry:
https://africangn.net/poetry-platform/
Somnambulist Corona.
Jul 31, 2020 4 years agoSomnambulist Corona. Written by Nathaniel Z. Mpofu . A viral invasion, acquaintance by touch or breath And standing next to flesh and blood could be a touch of death The prescription's isolation, but the war's on social probation Common communion from the royal and the vagabond in every nation A modern-day Medusa stare-off with extinction. The fear in our face The global hope sucking dementor, but I'm so optimistic allow me to say grace At a chance to cradle your heart, warm your thoughts and impart A notion, to set in motion, emotion evoking reverie. Let this be the part Where you're convinced doubtless, the mustard seed must take heed For in it is my confidence, in providence congruent with our will to live You're not alone, my word's the epitome of all the good you believe No tribulation's set in stone, all threats of our demise will atone Here's our Declaration of Healing, on your PC, pad or phone Survival's in the marrow of our bone, by our mere birth this was sworn Of this tale we'll tell. When this battle we've won How we pleaded the fifth On house arrest for our souls to keep You see quarantine Is easily guaranteed Cobwebs in our craniums if creativity's a dearth Revisions of our dreaded to-do lists seemingly since birth And aren't we fortunate This came smack dab in the advent Of social media with phones the size of a plate Would you fathom a lockdown with the ancient Nokia 3310? Dementing boredom in every accent You can only play snakes and ladders for so long A limbo with an overheard song Some have even learned to cook Culinary crimes we've brought to book Interesting fact, did you know it in fact Takes 21 consecutive days for a habit to stick like a blood pact Ergo the equation below A beautiful science mellow as yellow: The human eye reads 200 words per minute and the average book holds 48 000 Reading for 45 minutes a day for 5 days folds 45 000 So vow, don't wow. How many books have you read? If your initial response' an excuse, I won't say that's sad.
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