Gabeba Baderoon
Gabeba Baderoon (born 21 February 1969) is a South African poet and academic. She is the 2005 recipient of the
Penn State.[1]
Early years and education
Gabeba Baderoon was born in
Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, the same year spending time at the University of Sheffield, UK, as a visiting scholar. She also completed her dissertation entitled "Oblique Figures: Representations of Islam in South African Media and Culture." She divides her life between Port Elizabeth and Pennsylvania.[citation needed
]
Poetry collections
- The Dream in the Next Body (2005)[citation needed]
- Notable Book of 2005 by the Sunday Independent in South Africa
- Sunday Times Recommended Book
- The Museum of Ordinary Life (2005)[2]
- A hundred silences (2006)[citation needed]
- shortlisted for the 2007 University of Johannesburg Prize
- 2007 Olive Schreiner Award
- The Silence Before Speaking[3]
- Cinnamon (2009)[citation needed]
- The History of Intimacy (2018)[citation needed]
Awards
- 2005: Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry[citation needed]
- 2005: Guest Writer Fellowship at the Nordic Africa Institute[citation needed]
- 2008: Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Italy[citation needed]
- 2008: Writer's Residency at the University of Witwatersrand[4]
- 2019: Media24 Books Literary Prize: Elisabeth Eybers Prize for The History of Intimacy[5]
- 2023: Sarah Baartman Senior Fellow at the University of Cape Town
References
- ^ "Catching up with Gabeba Baderoon". Research Penn State. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ISSN 0892-8339.
- ^ "Gabeba Baderoon". Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ^ "Gabeba Baderoon". Badilisha Poetry Exchange. Archived from the original on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ^ "Winners of 2019 Media24 Books Literary Prizes announced". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
External links
- Podcast from Badilisha Poetry X-Change
- Interview Podcast with Books Live
- Interview with the Sheffield Telegraph.
- Interview with Money Web
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