Sindiwe Magona

She published two autobiographies: To My Children's Children and Forced To Grow, two collections of short stories: Living Loving and Lying Awake at Night and Push-Push and Other Stories; and four novels: Mother to Mother, Beauty's Gift Life is a Hard but Beautiful Thing, and Chasing Tails of My Father's Cattle!

She published her autobiography To My Children's Children in 1990. In 1998, she published Mother to Mother, a fictionalized account of the Amy Biehl killing,[5] which she adapted into a play. This was performed at the Baxter Theatre complex in late 2009 and the film rights were acquired by Type A Films in 2003.[6] She wrote autobiographies and short story collections. Her novel Beauty's Gift was shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book, Africa Region.[2][7][8] In 2009, Please, Take Photographs, her first collection of poems, was published.

Her other works include Please, take Photographs! a book of poetry (Modjaji Books, 2009) and Awam Ngqo! a book of short stories (NASOU 2009) and prescribed for Grade 8; Twelve Books of Folktales - written in both English and Xhosa; translated into isiZulu; Setswana, Afrikaans; Sesotho; Sepedi; and published September 2014 - David Philip; Skin We In in collaboration with scientist Nina Jablonksy and illustrator Lynn Feldman - a book about skin colour and race.

Her children's books include The Best Meal Ever and Life is a hard but beautiful thing: English, Afrikaans. She created the first series for children in isiXhosa: Sigalelekile: 48 books (Via Afrika). She contributed more than twenty the books in another series: Siyakhula (OUP).

Compilation: You Pay For The View – Maskew Miller Longman (2009)

With the Gugulethu Writers’ Group she created Umthi ngamnye unentlaka yawo – short stories - (Xhosa Realities 2007); UNobanzi (Oxford University Press 2010);, UNyana weSizwe 2009 and 2010; and a series of twenty-four books (Igugu), from her workshop with students at the University of the Western Cape (David Philip Publishers 2015). Two books of poetry, UWC students, will be published in isiXhosa.