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Sumayya Lee

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April 04

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Sumayya Lee was born in Durban, South Africa during apartheid. At fifteen, under the tutelage of an inspirational English teacher, Lee found her calling, yet had no idea how long it would be before her dream of being a writer would be realised.

Lee married at twenty and studied to be a Montessori Directress during this time. Two children later, she was divorced and seeking new direction. She did a Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and went on to work with adults.

She is now re-married and lives in London with her husband, two children and their cats. She is the author of The Story of Maha and Maha, Ever After and is currently working on her third novel.

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	The Story of Maha 3.75 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maha, Ever After 3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Heart Will Skip A Beat And Other Stories by Sumayya Lee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sima Mittal (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Socrates Mbamalu (Contributor) 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire In The Night and Other Stories: The 2014 Writivism Anthology by Sumayya Lee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Emmanuel Sigauke (Editor ), Michelle Preen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roses For Betty And Other Stories: The Writivism Anthology 2015 by Sumayya Lee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Emmanuel Sigauke (Editor), Dayo Ntwari (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	UnBreakable Bonds: A WRITIVISM ANTHOLOGY OF FICTION, PHOTOGRAPHY AND NONFICTION FROM EASTERN AFRICA AND THE UK (Writivism Special Book 2) by Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire (Goodreads Author), Maria Birungi, Amandla Karungi 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Believing that the soldiers of the apartheid government really did use rubber bullets and carried batons only for decoration is seriously misguided, though understandable considering that newspapers were strictly censored, while history books abounded with Blatant Boer Bias.”
― Sumayya Lee, The Story of Maha

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“African storms are always awesome. No shy burps of thunder and surreptitious flashes of lightning for Mama Africa.”
― Sumayya Lee, The Story of Maha

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“With childish lucidity, I saw Gorinani as an Old Goat. Her preferred manner of communication was the scream, which she directed at all and sundry. Her daughters-in-law got a large chunk, her grandchildren a fair amount and, though the lion’s share was reserved for servants, I and any other ill-fated cousin that crossed her path at the wrong moment found ourselves on the receiving end too. The only people not at risk were her own precious, pale-skinned daughters, the Fat Cows – the mere fact that they had been born with fair flesh meant that they could do no wrong. For”
― Sumayya Lee, The Story of Maha

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