KELWYN SOLE

Monday 23 May 2022 at 19:30 SAST

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Kelwyn Sole was born in Johannesburg and was educated there and in London. After working in Botswana as a schoolteacher, Namibia as an educationist and Johannesburg for an anti-apartheid NGO, he taught for thirty years at the University of Cape Town, retiring as De Beers Professor of Literature in 2016. Sole’s first collection, The Blood of Our Silence (Ravan,1987) won the Olive Schreiner Prize, while a seventh, Walking, Falling (Deep South, 2017) won the South African Literary Award (SALA). Individual poems have received the Thomas Pringle, Sydney Clouts and DALRO Awards. He will be reading from Skin Rafts (Hands-On Books, 2022), his most recent collection.

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