# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mandla-langa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:56:21.926Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mandla-langa"
name: "Mandla Langa"
slug: "mandla-langa"
description: "Mandla Langa is a South African poet, short-story writer, novelist, and cultural activist. He grew up in the KwaMashu township of Kwazulu Natal. His novel The Lost Colours of the Chameleon won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize .\nLanga enrolled for a degree in English and Philosophy at the University of Fort Hare, but was expelled in 1973 as a result of his involvement in the activities of the South African Student Organisation. In 1976, he went into exile and has lived in different countries of Southern Africa as well as in Hungary and the United Kingdom."
tagline: "South African writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-03-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.138301333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mandla_Langa"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandla_Langa"
    title: "Mandla Langa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "ماندلا لانجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandla_Langa"
    title: "Mandla Langa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandla_Langa"
    title: "Mandla Langa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandla_Langa"
    title: "Mandla Langa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandla_Langa"
    title: "Mandla Langa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6748105"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump