Internationally respected literary and social historian Tim Couzens, has passed away in Johannesburg, South Africa at the age of 72.
Couzens who was the lead writer of Nelson Mandela's Conversations with Myself, was a literary and social historian working at the Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
He worked on two biographies of Nelson Mandela, as coordinating editor on Conversations With Myself and as co-author on Mandela: The Authorised Portrait. He also co-authored A Simple Freedom – The Strong Mind of Robben Island Prisoner No. 468/64 with Ahmed Kathrada.
Couzens has also published three major biographies and so many award-winning books.
One of his books Tramp Royal won the CNA Literary Award and the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award.
Chief executive of the Nelson Mandela foundation Sello Hatang told News 24: "I will never forget how whenever you paid Tim a compliment he would downplay it and instead turn it around to make you look good."
The cause of 72-year-old Couzens' death was not immediately known.
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