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MARY WATSON

Mary WatsonMARY WATSON lives in Cape Town. Her collection of interlinking stories, Moss, was published by Kwela in 2004. She is currently lecturing Film Studies at the University of Cape Town where she received a meritorious publication award for Moss. In 2006, she was awarded the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing. She has contributed several short stories to published anthologies, including in translation in Afrikaans, German and Dutch. She is currently working on her first novel and on a collaborative novel together with a group of other South African authors.

Photograph by Nicholas Aldridge



More info:

Mary Watson wins 'African Booker', from The Guardian

An interview with Mary Watson, by Henrietta Rose-Innes, from LitNet

SA literary prize winner's joy, from the BBC

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