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Anna Tebogo Matilda Monnakgotla (* 25 March 1972 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish composer.

Life

Tebogo Monnakgotla was born and raised in Uppsala, where she began playing the cello at the age of ten. After attending the Södra Latin Music School, she studied cello and composition with Jan Sandström at the Piteå Academy of Music from 1994 and composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm from 1999.

She has written music for a number of ensembles, including the Chamber Ensemble, Musica Vitae, Avanti!, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Radio Choir. She enjoys using poetry in her musical work and has collaborated with a number of poets including Li Li, Göran Malmqvist, Oliveira Silveira and Ann Jäderlund. One of her collaborations with Li Li, Bamboo in the Language of Birches, was awarded “Recommended Work” by the International Rostrum of Composers in 2006.

In 2007-08, Tebogo Monnakgotla was the house composer for the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, a task that, according to SR, goes to “the best young composers”. She was elected a member of the Swedish Composers’ Association in 2007 and is also a member of Inversion, an association of female composers and conductors working to make contemporary music accessible to a wider audience.

In 2017, she received the Carin Malmlöf-Forssling Prize.
In 2018, her opera Jean-Joseph was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize.

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