Isobel Dixon
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Isobel Dixon (1969- ) is a poet who born in Umtata, South Africa. Isobel grew up in Karoo with her four sisters. She studied English Literature in Stellenbosch and later, applied linguistics in Edinburgh. Eventually, her husband found work in London. This atmosphere encouraged her to write and led to being published after moving to Cambridge. There, she flourished and wrote several anthologies. Now, her works are found all over the world from her native South Africa to England and America. In 2000 she won the South African SANLAM Award for Poetry. In 2004 she won the Olive Schreiner Prize and the Oxfam Poems for a Better Future competition. She was commissioned to write poems by the British Film institute in 2007.[1][2]
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[edit] Poems
(I want) something to show for it
Back in the benighted kingdom
Plenty
She comes swimming
The growing gift
Valentine
[edit] Collections
[edit] References
- ^ [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A1123b1C35CMuN1824B30 British Council Literature. Retrieved June 3, 2008
- ^ [1] South Africa Poetry International
- ^ [2] Review of "A fold in the map." Hippo Press, Manchester New Hampshire, 7 February 2008
- ^ [3] Review of "A fold in the map." The Sunday Independent, South Africa, 17 February 2008. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
