title: Nthikeng Mohlele
text: # Nthikeng Mohlele
  
  Nthikeng Mohlele is a South African novelist whose novels include Michael K (Picador Africa, 2018), a rewriting of J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K. His other novels are: Scent of Bliss (Kwela Books, 2008), Small Things (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2013), Rusty Bells (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014), Pleasure (Picador Africa, 2016), and Illumination (Picador Africa, 2019).
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 2017 K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award for Pleasure
  