Phumlani S Langa
Phumlani Pikoli, the laid-back 29-year-old author of the crisp, experimental and beautifully weird book of short stories – The Fatuous State of Severity – tells me his life story in just a few sentences.
He was born in Zimbabwe to exiled parents. “We moved around the country for a while until the folks settled in Pretoria, where my two siblings and I grew up. We went to former Model C schools and grew up in the burbs.