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Diane Awerbuck
Diane Awerbuck (born 1 April 1974) is a South African novelist. Her novel, ''Gardening at Night'', won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book (Africa and the Caribbean), and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2011, her collection of short stories, ''Cabin Fever'', was published by Random House Struik. Her novel, ''Home Remedies'', was published by Random House Struik in August 2012. She was shortlisted for the Caine Prize The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award for the best original short story by an African writer, whether in Africa or elsewhere, published in the English language. The £10,000 prize was founded in the United Kingdom in 20 ... in 2014, and won the Short Story Day Africa competition the same year. She taught at Rustenburg Girls' High School until 2002. Before this, she worked as a teacher of History at Cedar House; and of Narrative and Aesthetics at AFDA, the film school, both in Cape Town. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Zadok
Rachel Zadok is a South African writer and a Whitbread First Novel Award nominee (2005). She is the author of the novels ''Gem Squash Tokoloshe'' and ''Sister-Sister''. Life Zadok was born in South Africa in 1972 to a South African mother and an Israeli father and grew up in Kensington, a white middle-class suburb of Johannesburg. She later studied Fine Art and worked as a freelance graphic designer. She moved with her doctor husband to London, England in 2001 where she waitressed for a while and then worked for an orphans' charity. She graduated with a Certificate in Novel Writing from City University, London. It was in London that Zadok began writing ''Gem Squash Tokoloshe'', a first novel set in her native South Africa. "The book is really about belief and the influence society has on children," she said in a November 2005 BBC interview. In 2004, Zadok entered the 'How to Get Published' competition on Channel 4's Richard & Judy Show, reaching the final five of 46,000 entrants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |