Ntabeni, Mphuthumi: - Mphuthumi Ntabeni is a writer who resides in Cape Town. He contributes to different national and international publications andmaintains a column in the Southern Cross, South Africa's national weekly Catholic newspaper. He has worked with the Rhodes University drama department in staging two plays he wrote that were featured at the Grahamstown Arts Festival in 2006. Some of his short stories feature occasionally in magazines, historical journals and on radio. In 2008, he was one of six writers from the African continent whose collection of short stories were published in the United States in an anthology titled Africa Fresh! New Writings from the First Continent. He is also a founder of a Facebook book club called Qhamisa Book Club, which boasts more than 2000 active members. In 2021, he realized his second novel The Wanderers. The Broken River Tent won the University of Johannesburg Debut Novel Prize 2019 and was long-listed for the Sunday Times Literature Prize 2019 for Fiction (Barry Ronge Prize).