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You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town was the first book by Zoë Wicomb.Published in 1987 (by Virago in London), it was a collection of inter-related short stories, set during the Apartheid era and partly autobiographical, the central character being a young Coloured woman growing up in South Africa, [1] speaking English in an Afrikaans-speaking community in Namaqualand, attending the University of ...
Wicomb gained attention in South Africa and internationally with her first book, a collection of inter-related short stories, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town (1987), set during the apartheid era. The central character is a young woman brought up speaking English in an Afrikaans-speaking "coloured" community in Little Namaqualand, attending the ...
She was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on 21 February 1969. She currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, and Pennsylvania, US. In 1989 she received her Bachelor of Arts in English and psychology from the University of Cape Town. In 1991 she received her BA honours degree in English (First Class) from the University of Cape Town.
Mattera's grandfather, Paolo Mattera, [3] was an Italian immigrant who married a Xhosa woman from the eastern Cape. They moved to Johannesburg, where Mattera's father was born. At the time, he was classified as an Italian. Under the apartheid system, Mattera was classified as a "Coloured". This group was the last to be forcibly evicted from ...
Guy Butler Born (1918-01-21) 21 January 1918 Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa Died 26 April 2001 (2001-04-26) (aged 83) Grahamstown, South Africa Occupation Playwright, poet Period 1952–2001 Frederick Guy Butler (21 January 1918 – 26 April 2001) was a South African poet, academic and writer. Early life He was born and educated in the Eastern Cape town of Cradock. He attended Rhodes ...
She is the 2005 recipient of the Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry. She lives and works in Cape Town , South Africa , and Pennsylvania , US, and serves as an assistant professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University . [ 1 ]
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Brutus was forbidden to teach, write and publish in South Africa. His first collection of poetry, Sirens, Knuckles and Boots (1963), was published in Nigeria while he was in prison. The book received the Mbari Poetry Prize, awarded to a black poet of distinction, but Brutus turned it down on the grounds of its racial exclusivity.