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Poetry Africa
Poetry Africa is an international poetry festival held annually in Durban, South Africa. More than twenty poets, predominantly from South Africa and elsewhere on the African continent, participate in the 7- to 10-day Poetry Africa, an international poetry festival that is based mostly in Durban, South Africa, during the final quarter of the year. The festival's extensive programme includes theatre performances, readings, music and book-launches with a festival finale at BAT Centre. Day activities include seminars, workshops, open mic opportunities, and school visits. Poetry Africa is organized by the Centre for Creative Arts which is a multi-disciplinary arts organisation within the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. From the CCA Mission statement: The Centre fulfils a function as facilitator, promoter, networker, and capacity builder, and plays a vital role in bringing to fruition the artistic potential of the region. The CCA co-ordinates four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Poetry
The poetry of South Africa covers a broad range of themes, forms and styles. This article discusses the context that contemporary poets have come from and identifies the major poets of South Africa, their works and influence. The South African literary landscape from the 19th century to the present day has been fundamentally shaped by the social and political evolution of the country, particularly the trajectory from a colonial trading station to an apartheid state and finally toward a democracy. Primary forces of population growth and economic change, which have propelled urban development, have also impacted on the themes, forms and styles of literature and poetry. South Africa has a rich literary history. Fiction, and poetry specifically, has been written in all of South Africa's 11 official languages. Poets in the colonial era While it has been recorded that literature by black South Africans only emerged in the 20th century, this is only a reflection of published works a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the '' Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myroslav Laiuk
Myroslav Laiuk (Ukrainian: Мирослав Миколайович Лаюк) (*31 July 1990, Carpathians) — Ukrainian writer. Biography and artworks Myroslav Laiuk was born in 1990 in Smodna, Kosiv region, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. Living in Kyiv, Ukraine he graduated from National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and received a PhD degree for "Philosophy and Literature" program there. Since 2018, Laiuk teaches a creative writing course at his alma-mater university. In 2018, Myroslav Laiuk was included to the list of Top 30 Under 30 of 2018 by KyivPost, an award for young innovative Ukrainians achieving outstanding results in different fields. His works are translated into different foreign languages, with published books in Lithuania, Slovakia, Belarus, and Poland. In 2018, he became a recipient of the Emerging Writer on Tour award. He was a participant of Poetry Africa Festival (South Africa), Festival of World Literature (Croatia), Authors' Reading Month (Czech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of South African Poets
This is a list of noted South African poets, poets born or raised in South Africa, whether living there or overseas, and writing in one of the South African languages. A-C *Lionel Abrahams * Tatamkulu Afrika * Mike Alfred * Ingrid Andersen *Gabeba Baderoon *Shabbir Banoobhai *Sinclair Beiles * Robert Berold *Vonani Bila *Roy Blumenthal *Herman Charles Bosman *Breyten Breytenbach * André Brink *Dennis Brutus * Guy Butler * Roy Campbell * Charl Cilliers *Johnny Clegg *Jack Cope *Jeremy Cronin *Patrick Cullinan * Gary Cummiskey *Sheila Cussons D-G *Achmat Dangor *Ingrid de Kok * Phillippa Yaa de Villiers * Modikwe Dikobe * Isobel Dixon * Angifi Dladla *Finuala Dowling * I D du Plessis * Koos du Plessis *Elisabeth Eybers * Kingsley Fairbridge * Gus Ferguson *Sheila Meiring Fugard * Keith Gottschalk * Stephen Gray * Mafika Gwala H-M * Megan Hall * Joan Hambidge * Colleen Higgs * Christopher Hope * Peter Horn * Allan Kolski Horwitz * Alan James * Wopko Jensma * Liesl Jobson * Sara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of South African Writers
This is a list of writers from South Africa. A *Lionel Abrahams (1928–2004) *Peter Abrahams (1919–2017) * Rehane Abrahams (born 1970) * Wilna Adriaanse (born 1958) * Tatamkulu Afrika (1920–2002), born in Egypt *Lawrence Anthony (1950–2012) *Hennie Aucamp (1934–2014) * Diane Awerbuck (born 1974) B * C. Johan Bakkes (born 1956) * Christiaan Bakkes (born 1965) * Margaret Bakkes (1931–2016) *Jillian Becker (born 1932) *Shabbir Banoobhai (born 1949) *Lady Anne Barnard (1750–1825) *Lesley Beake (born 1949) *Mark Behr (born 1963), South Africa/Tanzania *Dricky Beukes (1918–1999) *Lauren Beukes (born 1976) *Steve Biko (1946–1977) * Troy Blacklaws (born 1965) *François Bloemhof (born 1962) *Elleke Boehmer (born 1961) *Stella Blakemore (1906–1991) * William Bolitho (1891–1930) *Diphete Bopape (born 1957) *Herman Charles Bosman (1905–1951) *Alba Bouwer (1920–2010) *Johanna Brandt (1876–1964) *Breyten Breytenbach (born 1939) * André Brink (1935–2015) *Babe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958)Gregory, Andy (2002), ''International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002'', Europa, p. 562. . is a British writer and dub poet. He was included in ''The Times'' list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008. Early life and education Zephaniah was born and raised in the Handsworth district of Birmingham, England, which he has called the "Jamaican capital of Europe". He is the son of a Barbadian postman and a Jamaican nurse."Biography" , ''BenjaminZephaniah.com''. Retrieved 13 April 2008.Kellaway, Kate (2001) Dread poet's society , '' |
Mamta Sagar
Mamta Sagar ( kn, ಮಮತಾ ಸಾಗರ) is an Indian poet, academic, and activist writing in the Kannada language. Her writings focus on identity politics, feminism, and issues around linguistic and cultural diversity. She is a professor of Academic and Creative Writing at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Bibliography * ''Kaada Navilina Hejje'' (Footprints of the Wild Peacock) - 1992 * ''Chukki Chukki Chandakki'' - 1993 * ''Nadiya Neerina Teva'' (Dampness of the River) - 1999 * ''Hiige Haaleya Maile Haadu'' (Like This the song) - 2007 * ''Growing Up as a Woman Writer'' - 2007 * ''MahiLa Vishaya'' - 2007 * ''Illi Salluva Maatu'' - 2010 * ''Hide & Seek'' - 2014 * ''kShaNabindu'' - 2018 * ''Interversions'' (compilation) Translation work * Poems by Tirumalamba * ''The Swing of Desire'' - the play ''Mayye Bhaara Manave Bhaara'' * ''Seemantha'' (2003) - short story by Nagaveni * ''870'' (2011) - by Emily Dickinson * ''Slovenian-Kannada Literature Interactions'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesego Rampolokeng
Lesego Rampolokeng (born 7 July 1965) is a South African writer, playwright and performance poet. Early life and education Lesego Rampolokeng was born in 1965 in Orlando West, Soweto, Johannesburg. He studied law at the University of the North in South Africa, but he has not followed this path any further. Works Lesego Rampolokeng came to prominence in the 1980s, a very turbulent time in South Africa. He was born and bred in Soweto:"I was born in Orlando West. Bred thorough all across Soweto. Orlando East, White City, Chiawelo, Meadowlands, Diepkloof. I schooled in Jabavu, Moroka, Jabulani… " (''Bird Monk Seding'' p20) His poetry stands aside from politics and is savagely critical of the (post)apartheid establishment. His first two books were published by the Congress of South African Writers (COSAW) ''Horns for Hondo'' (1991) and ''Talking Rain'' (1993). Rampolokeng has collaborated with various musicians on stage and in the studio. He has performed in many countries and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitika Ntuli
Pitika Ntuli (born 1942) is a South African sculptor, poet, writer, and academic who spent 32 years of his life in exile in Swaziland and the UK. Biography Pitika Ntuli was born in Springs, Gauteng, South Africa, and grew up in Witbank in Mpumalanga. He became active in the struggle against the apartheid government, as a result of which he was exiled. From 1963, he lived in Swaziland, where he was eventually arrested and detained as a political prisoner, spending a year in solitary isolation in a death row prison cell in Swaziland until international pressure on the South African and Swaziland authorities secured his release in 1978 to the UK. He subsequently went to study in New York City at the Pratt Institute, where he earned an MFA and an MA degree in Comparative Industrial Relations and Industrial Sociology. After completing these studies, he went back to England and began a career teaching at educational institutions, notably the Camberwell College of Art, Central Saint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bantu Mwaura
Bantu Mwaura was a Kenyan performing artist, director, playwright, storyteller, poet and university lecturer. He was also a political and human rights activist and a cultural theorist who has worked mostly with civil society using theatre and performance in human rights and developmental work. Bantu's poetry has been published in several journals and anthologies in English, Swahili and Gikuyu. He has been commissioned by organisations such as the World Council of Churches and the World Social Forum to write and perform poetry in international fora, performing poetry and spoken word in Europe, the United States and several countries in Africa. In Kenya, Bantu appeared in the monthly poetry slams organised by Kwani?, the leading East-African based literary magazine. Bantu was part of the Poetry Africa programme at the World Social Forum in Nairobi in 2007. He has taught poetry, storytelling and playwriting in different universities in Kenya and the United States and his plays have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gcina Mhlope
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe (born 24 October 1958), known as Gcina Mhlophe, is a South African storyteller, writer, playwright, and actress. In 2016 she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. She tells her stories in four of South Africa's languages: English, Afrikaans, Zulu and Xhosa, and also helps to motivate children to read. Her childhood Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe was born on 24 October 1958 in KwaZulu-Natal, to a Xhosa mother and a Zulu father. She started her working life as a domestic worker, and did not visit a library until she was 20. Career Mhlope worked as a newsreader at the Press Trust and BBC Radio, then as a writer for ''Learn and Teach'', a magazine for newly-literate people. She began to get a sense of the demand for stories while in Chicago in 1988. She performed at a library in a mostly-Black neighbourhood, where an ever-growing audience kept inviting her back. Still, Mhlophe only began to think of storytelling as a career after meeting an Imbongi, one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werewere Liking
Werewere Liking (born 1950, in Cameroon) is a writer, playwright and performer based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She established the Ki-Yi Mbock theatre troupe in 1980 and founded the Ki-Yi village in 1985 for the artistic education of young people. Her novel ''Elle sera de jaspe et de corail'' is a song-novel recounted by an astute ''misovire'' (literally 'man-hater' from misos Gr. "hate" and vir Lat. "man") in writing a journal on nine themes as a dialectic between two men wherein the author of the journal imagines a new race of people uninhibited by the historical baggage of patriarchy and colonialism. She is the author of the African feminist theory "misovirism." She received a Prince Claus Award in 2000 for her contributions to culture and society, and the Noma Award in 2005 for her book ''La mémoire amputée''. Writing Her books and plays include: * ''La mémoire amputée'', Nouvelles Editions Ivoiriennes (2004), * ''Elle sera de jaspe et de corail'', Editions L'Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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