About
Sarah Lubala (she/her) is a Congolese-born South African poet. Her debut collection, A History of Disappearance (Botsotso Publishing, 2022), was featured on a number of notable book lists, including Open Country Mag‘s 60 notable books of 2022 and The Africa Report’s 15 must-read books for summer 2022. She has been shortlisted twice for a Gerald Kraak Award and once for a Brittle Paper Award for Poetry and was longlisted for a Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award. She is the winner of the HSS Award 2023 for Best Fiction: Poetry and the Ingrid Jonker Prize 2024.
