Karen Press

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Karen Press
Born1956 (age 6566)
NationalitySouth African
OccupationPoet, translator
Awards South African Literary Award

Karen Press (born 1956) is a South African poet and translator. [1]

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She was born in Cape Town, and lives in Sea Point. Press is a full-time writer and editor, having published ten collections of poetry, [2] a film script, short stories, as well as educational material and textbooks in the fields of science, mathematics, English and economics. [3] She also translated poetry from Afrikaans, primarily work by Antjie Krog. [2]

In 1987 she co-founded the publishing collective Buchu Books. [3]

Antjie Krog described her poems in The Museum of Working Life as "a haunting museum constructed in Press's delicate tone and vivid poetic intelligence." [4]

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Awards

Press received the Literary Translators Award in the 2015 South African Literary Awards for translation of Mede-wete and Synapse by Antjie Krog. [8]

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References

  1. Press, Karen (December 1994). "Poetry Journals in South Africa, 1994". New Coin. Archived from the original on 2005-05-29. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
  2. 1 2 "Karen Press". S. A. Literary Awards.
  3. 1 2 "Karen Press". Poetry International. Poetry International Foundation. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  4. "Poetry", Mail & Guardian , 8 December 2004
  5. 1 2 Sole, Kelwyn (Winter 1996). "Bird Hearts Taking Wing: Trends in Contemporary South African Poetry Written in English". World Literature Today. 70 (1): 26, 31. doi:10.2307/40151848. JSTOR   40151848.
  6. West, Mary (May 2006). "The Co-Ordinates of (Post-) Colonial Whiteness: A Reading of Karen Press's "Echo Location: A Guide to Sea Point for Residents and Visitors (1998)"". English in Africa. 33 (1): 93–111. ISSN   0376-8902. JSTOR   40399025.
  7. Dove, Rita (4 February 2001). "Survival guide found in poet's words". Palm Beach Daily News. Palm Beach, Florida. p. 20. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  8. ?, Jennifer (9 November 2015). "2015 South African Literary Awards (SALAs) Winners Announced" . Retrieved 8 October 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)