Mokhiniso Smith Biography – Mokhiniso Smith Wiki
Mokhiniso Smith born Mokhiniso Rakhimova is a lawyer and the wife of Wilbur Smith who was a Zambian-born South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families. Her husband Wilbur passed on on November 13, 2021, aged 88 unexpectedly in his Cape Town home in South Africa.
Initially, Wilbur being an accountant by training, gained a film contract with his first published novel When the Lion Feeds. This encouraged him to become a full-time writer, and he developed three long chronicles of the South African experience which all became best-sellers. He acknowledged his publisher Charles Pick’s advice to “write about what you know best”, and his work takes in much authentic detail of the local hunting and mining way of life, along with the romance and conflict that goes with it. As of 2014, his 35 published novels had sold more than 120 million copies, 24 million of them in Italy.
Mokhiniso Smith Age
She was born in 1982.
Mokhiniso Smith Husband
She was married to her late husband, Wilbur Smith, as his fourth wife. They met in a WHSmith bookstore in London on January 18, 2000. They began their relationship and married in Cape Town in May 2000. At the time, she was a law student studying at Moscow University and is younger than him by 39 years. About their relationship, Smith said:
“It really was love at first sight—and now she’s got the best English teacher in the world. Of course, people ask about the age gap, but I just say, ‘What’s 39 years?’ Sure, she’s young enough to be my daughter, so what?”
Wilbur died on Saturday, November 13, 2021, at the age of 88. A newsletter on Smith’s website announced that he had passed away unexpectedly in his Cape Town home in South Africa.
“Global bestselling author Wilbur Smith died unexpectedly this afternoon at his Cape Town home after a morning of reading and writing with his wife Niso by his side,” said a statement released on the Wilbur Smith Books website, as well as by his publishers Bonnier Books UK.” The statement did not disclose the cause of his death.
Mokhiniso Smith Children
She has not stated having any children with her husband. However, she is the stepmother of her husband’s children, Dieter Schmidt, Lawrence Smith, Christian Smith, and Shaun Smith from his previous marriages.
Mokhiniso Smith Nationality
She belongs to the Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group native to Central Asia, living primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
