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- Birth nameNoel Mathura
- Mustapha Matura was born on December 17, 1939 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He was a writer, known for Black Silk (1985), No Problem! (1983) and Theatre Night (1985). He was married to Ingrid Selberg and Marian Walsh. He died on October 29, 2019 in the UK.
- SpousesIngrid Selberg(? - October 29, 2019) (his death, 2 children)Marian Walsh (divorced, 2 children)
- Born Noel Mathura in Trinidad, he changed his name when he became a writer, and has explained: "I liked the sound of it.... It was the sixties".
- Mantura was once described by the New Statesman as "the most perceptive and humane of Black dramatists writing in Britain".
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