Ahmed Essop (1 September 1931 – 9 June 2019) was an Indian-born South African author.
[1][2] He attended the University of South Africa where he obtained a BA in 1956 and later an honours degree.
[3] Employed as a teacher until 1986, Essop gave up teaching to pursue writing full-time.
Much of his work focuses on Indians and their roles in South African society, and include racial themes of apartheid.
Essop was awarded the Olive Schreiner Prize in 1979 by the English Academy of Southern Africa for The Hajji and Other Stories (1978) and the Literary Lifetime Achievement Award by the South African Ministry of Arts and Culture.