Diane Awerbuck

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Diane Awerbuck
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Rachel Zadok (left) and Diane Awerbuck at the launch of Short Story Day Anthology for 2016 - Water.
Born (1974-04-01) 1 April 1974 (age 50)
Kimberley, South Africa
Pen nameFrank Owen
OccupationNovelist
Language English
GenreFiction
Notable worksGardening at Night (Won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book (Africa and the Caribbean), and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award)

Diane Awerbuck (born 1 April 1974) is an award-winning South African novelist. Her most notable novel, Gardening at Night, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book (Africa and the Caribbean), and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2011, her collection of short stories, Cabin Fever, was published by 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]

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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", a joint pseudonym used when collaborating with co-writer Alex Latimer. Their cowboy-apocalypse novel project South was published in 2016, with a second volume North following in 2018. [8]

Works

Novels

Short stories

As editor

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

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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. ↑ Awerbuck, Diane (2014). Short Story in Anthology. Cape Town: Avusa Media / Sunday Times. ISBN   9781928216421.
  13. ↑ Awerbuck, Diane (August 2014). Ons Klyntji:OK20 The Odyssey.
  14. ↑ Awerbuck, Diane (2014). The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories. Phosphorescence. ISBN   978-1-78026-174-4.
  15. ↑ Awerbuck and Latimer (2014). Sweet Water. Fundza.
  16. ↑ Awerbuck (2014). Mami Wata.
  17. ↑ Awerbuck (2013). My Name is Legion. Dark Continents. ISBN   9780692249512.
  18. ↑ Awerbuck (2013). Three poems in Anthology – The Sol Plaatjie/European Union Poetry Anthology, Volume 3. Jacana. p. Atlantis and Colposcopy, Saint Francis saw the scissors, Washing Lines II. ISBN   9781431409853.
  19. ↑ Awerbuck (2013). Washing Lines II.
  20. ↑ Awerbuck (2013). The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories. Umuzi. ISBN   9781415205686.
  21. ↑ Awerbuck (2013). Ons Klyntji:Bewilderbeast. Toast Coetzer.
  22. ↑ Awerbuck. "Interview with Jennifer Malec". YouTube .
  23. ↑ Awerbuck (2013). Duiweltjie – The Root Cellar and Other Stories. Umuzi. 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. ↑ Awerbuck (2012). English for Success, Grade 8. Cape Town: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199050697.
  28. ↑ Awerbuck (2012). English for Success, Grade 9. Cape Town: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199048182.
  29. ↑ Awerbuck (2012). Reunion. Visi.
  30. ↑ Awerbuck (2012). Home Remedies. Cape Town: Umuzi Books. ISBN   9781415201442.
  31. ↑ Awerbuck (2012). Uber(w)unden : Art in Troubled Times. Cape Town: Jacana. ISBN   9781431404971.
  32. ↑ Awerbuck (2011). Short Story Collection. Cape Town: Umuzi Books. ISBN   9781415201114.
  33. ↑ Awerbuck. "School Photos". Itch.
  34. ↑ Awerbuck (2010). Der Huter. Wuppertal. 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. ↑ Awerbuck (2007). The way you look tonight (Mother City Queer Project ed.). Cape Town: Umuzi. p. 91. ISBN   9781415200353.
  38. ↑ Awerbuck (2006). Nice Times : A book of South African Pleasures and Delights. Cape Town: Double Storey. pp. 64–65. ISBN   9781770130128.
  39. ↑ Awerbuck (2006). Greenland – Design Indaba. Cape Town: Interactive Africa. p. 51.
  40. ↑ Awerbuck (2005). Yizo Yizo – Der Junge der Turen offnete. Wuppertal. ISBN   377950040X.
  41. ↑ Awerbuck (2005). Strumpebandssnoken. Bokforlaget Tranan, Stockholm. pp. 223–233. ISBN   9185133175.
  42. ↑ Awerbuck (2005). 180 Degrees : New fiction by South African women writers. Cape Town: Oshun Books. pp. 17–24. ISBN   1770070427.
  43. ↑ Awerbuck (2004). Gardening at Night. London: Vintage. ISBN   0099287358.
  44. ↑ Awerbuck (2003). Laugh it Off : South African Youth Culture. Juta and Company. ISBN   9781919930442.
  45. ↑ Awerbuck (2003). Gardening at Night. London: Secker and Warburg. ISBN   0436206102.
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