Zubayr Charles

Zubayr Charles is playwright, poet and novelist. He obtained his MA in Creative Writing with cum laude from the University of Cape Town, where he was mentored and supervised by Imraan Coovadia. He is currently an English teacher at a high school in Cape Town. Haram is his debut novel.

Author's books

Haram

As a young man in a close-knit Muslim community in Woodstock, Muhammad used to feel trapped between who he was and who he was expected to be. But then he met Riyaaz, and his world shifted in unexpected ways.
Many years later, on the day of his wedding, Muhammad is pulled into memories of his adolescence – a time when faith and forbidden desires collided.

Haram is an unflinching tale alive with hidden and unspoken desires.