Cathy Kelly

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Keorapetse Kgositsile

Born in 1938, Keorapetse ‘Willie’ Kgositsile left South Africa in 1961 as one of the first young ANC members instructed to do so by the leadership of the liberation movement. He has studied and taught Literature and Creative Writing at various institutions in the United States and Africa since his first post at Sarah Lawrence College in New York in 1969. Post-apartheid, he divided his time equally between South Africa and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) where he was then lecturing, before deciding to return permanently in 2001. In July 2004, he was appointed Special Adviser to the Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Z Pallo Jordan. In addition to ten books of poetry, Kgositsile has published numerous poems in literary journals and anthologies and is the recipient of various literary awards. His work was honoured when he was made South Africa’s National Poet Laureate in 2006.

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Anne Landsman

Anne Landsman was born and raised in Worcester in the Western Cape and received degrees from the University of Cape Town and Columbia University. Her first novel, The Devil's Chimney, which was nominated for four awards including the M-Net Prize, was set in Oudtshoorn. Her new critically acclaimed novel, The Rowing Lesson, published in the US by Soho Press and in the UK by Granta, will be published by Kwela in South Africa in April, 2008. She has published essays in the anthologies, An Uncertain Inheritance and The Honeymoon's Over, and has also written for The Washington Post, The Believer, Poets & Writers, Bomb and The American Poetry Review. She taught screenwriting for several years at the New School for Social Research, as well as a fiction writing workshop at the University of Wyoming. She lives in New York City with her husband and children.

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