Diane Awerbuck

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Diane Awerbuck
Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book (Africa and the Caribbean), and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
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Diane Awerbuck (born 1 April 1974) is a South African novelist. Her novel, Gardening at Night, won the 2004

Random House Struik.[1] Her novel, Home Remedies, was published by Random House Struik in August 2012.[2] She was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2014, and won the Short Story Day Africa competition the same year.[3]

She taught at

Rustenburg Girls' High School until 2002.[4] 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.[5]
Her non-fiction has appeared in the Mail & Guardian.[6] She reviews fiction for the South African Sunday Times.

Her essays and short stories are published regularly and her work has been translated into German, Swedish, Mandarin and Russian.[7] Her doctorate is in trauma narratives: The Spirit and the Letter: Trauma, Warblogs and the Public Sphere.

"Awerbuck" also writes as "Frank Owen", with co-writer Alex Latimer. Their cowboy-apocalypse novel South was published in 2016 (southvsnorth.com). The second volume North followed in 2018.[8]

Works

Novels

  • Gardening at night, Secker & Warburg, 2003,
    ISBN 978-0-436-20610-8
  • Home Remedies, Umuzi / Random House Struik, 2012,
    ISBN 978-1-4152-0144-2

Short stories

As editor

  • Commissioning Editor of Anthology, The Ghost-Easter and Other Stories, Umuzi Cape Town, 2013, E-Pub 978-1-4152-0568-6

Interviews

Other

Poem in Anthology, African Sun[10]
Terra Incognita : African Speculative Fiction[11]
Twenty in 20 : The Best Short Stories of South Africa's 20 Years of Democracy[12]
Ons Klyntji:OK20 The Odyssey[13]
The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories[14]
Sweet Water[15]
Mami Wata[16]
The Sea[17]
Three Poems in Anthology[18]
Atlantis and Colposcopy[19]
The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories[20]
Ons Klyntji:Bewilderbeast[21]
Interview with Jennifer Malec[22]
Duiweltjie – The Root Cellar and Other Stories[23]
Short Story for Short Story Day Africa 2013[24]
Big Issue : Collector's Edition 2[25]
Stick Man[26]
Short story in Anthology[27]
Short story in Anthology[28]
Radio Broadcast on 'Tales to Terrify', USA
Short Story[29]
Home Remedies[30]
Über(w)unden : Art in Troubled Times[31]
Short Story Day Africa Short Story excerpt
Cabin Fever[32]
Heavenly shades of nights are falling Short story in literary magazine, 'Ons Klyntji'
School photos[33]
Short story in Anthology, Elf[34]
2009 Conference: African mythology: Mami Wata The Book Lounge, Cape Town
2008 Kommst du mit?[35]
Entanglement[36]
The way you look tonight[37]
Muddy Waters, Whisky Blues[38]
Greenland[39]
Der Junge, der Turen offnete[40]
En stereo i Soweto[41]
The boy who opened doors[42]
Gardening at Night[43]
The Dirty Knees of the Mother of GodShort Story, Commonwealth Writers
Everybody Hurts[44]
Gardening at Night[45]
The Portable Pilgrim Online Column, 2003 – 2008 – www.extrange.com

Magazine contributions

  • Leadership
  • Glamour
  • House and Garden
  • Design Indaba
  • Real simple
  • O Magazine
  • Ons Klyntji

References

  1. ^ Randomstruik.co.za Archived 9 September 2012 at archive.today
  2. ^ Randomstruik.co.za
  3. ^ Jennifer (21 November 2014). "Diane Awerbuck's winning story from the new SSDA anthology, Terra Incognita, and a cover reveal!". Books Live. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  4. ^ Vintage-books.co.uk
  5. ^ "Interview with Diane Awerbuck". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  6. ^ "Thoughtleader.co.za". Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
  7. ^ Short Story Day Africa Archived 6 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Joseph-Vilain, Mélanie (19 June 2020). "South (2016) et North (2018) de Frank Owen : diptyque post-apocalyptique américain ou sud-africain ?" (in French). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ Malec, Jennifer. "Aerodrome video with Diane Awerbuck". YouTube. Aerodrome. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  10. ^ Awerbuck, Diane. Poem in Anthology.
  11. ^ Awerbuck, Diane. Terra Incognita : African Speculative Fiction.
  12. ISBN 9781928216421
    .
  13. ^ Awerbuck, Diane (August 2014). Ons Klyntji:OK20 The Odyssey.
  14. ISBN 978-1-78026-174-4
    .
  15. ^ Awerbuck and Latimer (2014). Sweet Water. Fundza.
  16. ^ Awerbuck (2014). Mami Wata.
  17. ISBN 9780692249512
    .
  18. ISBN 9781431409853
    .
  19. ^ Awerbuck (2013). Washing Lines II.
  20. ISBN 9781415205686
    .
  21. ^ Awerbuck (2013). Ons Klyntji:Bewilderbeast. Toast Coetzer.
  22. ^ Awerbuck. "Interview with Jennifer Malec". YouTube.
  23. ISBN 9781920532314
    .
  24. ^ Awerbuck, Diane. "Short Story for Short Story Day Africa" (PDF).[permanent dead link]
  25. ^ Awerbuck. "Big Issue : Collector's Edition 2". Colomn.
  26. ^ Awerbuck (2012). Stick Man. High Life.
  27. ISBN 9780199050697
    .
  28. ISBN 9780199048182
    .
  29. ^ Awerbuck (2012). Reunion. Visi.
  30. ISBN 9781415201442
    .
  31. ISBN 9781431404971
    .
  32. ISBN 9781415201114
    .
  33. ^ Awerbuck. "School Photos". Itch.
  34. ISBN 9783779502838
    .
  35. ^ Awerbuck (2008). Kommst du mit?. Cape Town: UCT Press. pp. 17–20.
  36. ^ Awerbuck. "Entanglement". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  37. ISBN 9781415200353
    .
  38. ISBN 9781770130128
    .
  39. ^ Awerbuck (2006). Greenland – Design Indaba. Cape Town: Interactive Africa. p. 51.
  40. ISBN 377950040X
    .
  41. ISBN 9185133175
    .
  42. ISBN 1770070427
    .
  43. ISBN 0099287358
    .
  44. ISBN 9781919930442
    .
  45. ISBN 0436206102
    .

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