Arts and Culture

Sugar Town Queens with Malla Nunn

Posted on: Mon 2 Aug 2021

Sugar Town Queens is the name of a new novel for young adults.  Sugar Town is a township on the outskirts of Durban in South Africa, and the Queens are a trio of mixed race teenage girls. Nicky Page talks with author Malla Nunn about her life, her writing and Sugar Town Queens.

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