KEN BARRIS

Monday 30 November at 19:30 SAST

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Ken Barris’s fiction has been translated into Turkish, Danish, French, German, and Slovenian, and his short fiction and poems have appeared in thirty anthologies. He has won various literary awards, including the Ingrid Jonker Prize, the M-Net Book Prize, and the Thomas Pringle Award; most recently, the 2013 University of Johannesburg Prize for his novel Life Underwater, and the 2018 Herman Charles Bosman Prize for a collection of short stories, namely The Life of Worm & Other Misconceptions. He has published five novels, two collections of poetry, and two collections of short stories.

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BEVERLY RYCROFT

Monday 23 November at 19:30 SAST

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Beverly Rycroft’s debut poetry collection, Missing, won the 2012 Ingrid Jonker award. She has also been awarded the Thomas Pringle Prize for best poem in a journal (2013) and won second place in the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Competition (2011). Her poetry has appeared in most local publications and has been anthologised in school and university textbooks, most recently in The New Century of South African Poetry (Jonathan Ball, 2018).

She has read at a number of South African literary festivals as well as the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in the United Kingdom. Beverly is a graduate of the University of Cape Town and the University of the Witwatersrand. A qualified teacher, she has taught at schools, in industry, and at a teachers’ training college.

Rycroft is the author of a novel, A Slim, Green Silence (Umuzi, 2015) and a second poetry collection, A Private Audience (Dryad Press, 2017).

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OLWETHU MXOLI

Monday 16 November at 19:30 SAST

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Olwethu is 25 years old. She is an intern at Riebeek College Girls’ High School while she pursues her education degree. She works with the Helenvale Poets as a co-facilitator and performance coordinator. She also writes with the Ecca Poets. Her poetry is honest and often uncomfortable.

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