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Niki Daly
Sandile Dikeni
Victor Dlamini
Gus Ferguson
Richard Ford
Damon Galgut
Mark Gevisser
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Niki Daly

Niki Daly has won numerous international and local awards for his children’s books. His stories are characterised by his lyrical style and gently humorous illustrations. Niki is the author of Not So Fast, Songololo; Once Upon a Time and Zanzibar Road

Sandile Dikeni

Sandile Dikeni was involved in an accident two years ago. But with Planting Water, launched last year, he announced his recovery and return to the craft - and the writer’s life - that he loves. Sandile Dikeni was born in Victoria West in 1966. He studied at the University of the Western Cape where he served on the SRC. He began writing seriously while in detention in 1986, and was a popular performer at political rallies and community cultural events. Since the coming of democracy, he has worked as a journalist and political commentator. In addition to Planting Water, he has published two previous collections of poetry, Guava Juice (1992) and Telegraph to the Sky (2002), as well as a collection of his articles featured in the Cape Times, titled Soul Fire: Writing the Transition (2002).

Victor Dlamini

Victor Dlamini is a Director of Dlamini Weil Communications & of Chillibush Communications. He is also the founder and presenter of the bi-weekly Victor Dlamini Literary Podcast. He has a passion for literature from the African continent, and he regularly reviews new books from Southern Africa and elsewhere in the world. In a long and distinguished journalism career, Victor Dlamini has been a reporter at The Sunday Tribune in Durban and he was also the founder presenter of SAfm Literature. In 2007 he was awarded the South African Literary Awards' Literary Journalism prize.

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Gus Ferguson

Gus Ferguson is a poet and cartoonist and publisher. His cartoons appear in Noseweek and his latest poetry collection is Dubious Delights of Ageing and Other Follies (UMP). His poetry publishing enterprise, Snailpress and imprints, has published or helped to publish, since 1990, well over 100 collections by South African poets. His other interests are cycling and jazz. He is a pharmacist.

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Richard Ford

Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi (USA), in 1944. He is the author of nine books of fiction and many essays. His stories and novels have been published in more than 25 languages. His latest novel The Lay of the Land was published in 2006 by Bloomsbury. His novel Independence Day won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He lives in America, with his wife Kristina Ford, in East Boothbay, Maine.

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Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He has published five books, including The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs and Small Circle of Beings. His last novel, The Good Doctor, was translated into 14 languages and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Dublin-IMPAC Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His new book, appearing in 2008, is called The Imposter and will be launched at the Franschhoek Literary Festival, 2008.

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Mark Gevisser

Educated in Johannesburg and at Yale University, Mark Gevisser worked in New York (writing for Village Voice and The Nation) before returning to South Africa in 1990. His work has appeared in the Mail & Guardian, the Sunday Independent, the Sunday Times. He has published widely on South African politics, culture and society, in Vogue, the New York Times and Foreign Affairs and Art in America. In 2001 he won a Mondi award for his series of articles in GQ on cities and space in South Africa. He co-edited Defiant Desire, Gay and Lesbian Lives In South Africa (Routledge, 1994), and an anthology of his Mail and Guardian columns, Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South Africa was published by David Philip in 1996. His documentary The Man Who Drove With Mandela has been broadcast internationally, and won the Teddy Documentary Prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 1999. His 2007 biography of Thabo Mbeki, Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred has received wide critical acclaim.

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