Douglas Reid Skinner | |
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| Born | 1949 Upington, South Africa |
| Occupation | Writer, editor, translator, poet |
| Spouse(s) | Hilary Ivory |
| Website | douglasreidskinner |
Douglas Reid Skinner is a South African writer, editor, translator and poet. He was born in 1949 in Upington, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
Skinner has published seven collections of poems, the most recent of which was Liminal, [1] published by uHlanga in 2017.
His poems have appeared in magazines in South Africa, The United Kingdom, America, Italy and France (including American Poetry Review , Carapace, Comparative Criticism, New Coin, New Contrast, Outposts, Stanzas, TriQuarterly and Verse).
He has translated (on his own or with a co-translator) various works from Afrikaans, French, Hebrew, Italian and Portuguese.
Recent translations
From late 1986 to early 1989 Skinner was a compiler of The Contemporary Muse for the SABC (1986–89), a weekly half-hour broadcast of poetry on the ‘A’ programme.
He also created and directed The Carrefour Press (1988–1992), publishing over twenty collections of poetry, including such authors as Basil du Toit, John Eppel, Gus Ferguson, Douglas Livingstone, Ruth Miller and Fiona Zerbst. The Carrefour Press also published novels, a collection of essays by Stephen Watson and non-fiction works by George Seferis and Marthinus Versfeld.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s he was a member of the adjudication panels for:
A selection of Magelli translations (with Fazzini) was awarded joint-First Prize in the 1995–6 British Comparative Literature Association Open Translation Prize.
Skinner's family has lived in Cape Town, Grahamstown, Kimberley and East London. After school, he attended Rhodes University in Grahamstown. He has worked in retail sales, farming, life insurance, acting, mining & drilling, programming & systems analysis, the wine trade, design, publishing, and editing. He has lived in Cape Town, Johannesburg, London, New York and San Francisco. He married Hilary Ivory in 1988 and together they have one son.
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