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(1993) And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses: Four Works
(1995) Ways of Dying
(1995) She Plays with the Darkness
(1998) Melville 67
(2000) The Heart of Redness
(2002) The Madonna of Excelsior
(2002) Fools, Bells and the Importance of Eating: Three Satires
(2005) The Whale Caller
Awards
1978 - We Shall sing for the Fatherland won the first Amstel Playwright of the Year Award 1979 - The Hill won the second Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
Mda's sensibility; his offbeat satirical humour and his taste for the tragically weird are reflected in a favoured novel: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Of Love and Other Demons," the tale of 12-year-old Sierva Maria, bitten by a rabid dog and who dies of love in the convent where she is sent to be exorcized.
Mda, a romantic who is moved by the vision of a better world coming, would have embraced this vision in the face of the colonialistic swoop on the lands, he says.
Mda's ability to breach this divide, which is also the divide between permissibility and prohibition, allows him free rein to bring under fire the chauvinism that persists today and to ask whether progress must come at the cost of heritage.
Mda is particularly interested in the formation of the community, as well as life in the community today.
Twice a week, Mda travels to Kilvert as part of his research, and since quilting is a major part of the WIN community (and will thus be a major part of his story), he is learning to quilt.
Mda's latest novel, "The Whale Caller," a magical story of love and madness on the shores of the new South Africa, was published in the United Kingdom (Viking), Canada (Penguin) and South Africa (Penguin) in August 2005.
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