Cosmo Pieterse
Cosmo George Leipoldt Pieterse (born 1930, Windhoek, Namibia) is a South African playwright, actor, poet, literary critic and anthologist.[1]
Pieterse went to the University of Cape Town and taught in Cape Town until leaving South Africa in 1965. He was banned under the Riotous Assemblies Act of 1962.[2] He subsequently taught in London and at Ohio University in the United States:[3] arriving at Ohio University in 1970, he became a tenured faculty member in 1976. However, after travelling to meet his London publisher in 1979 he was denied re-entry to the US on classified information, allegedly for being "a suspected communist".[4]
Pieterse edited several anthologies of plays and poetry for the African Writers Series.
Works
- (ed.) Ten one-act plays. African Writers Series 34. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1968.
- (ed. with Donald Munro) Protest & conflict in African literature, 1969
- (ed.) 7 South African poets: poems of exile. African Writers Series 64. London: Heinemann Educational, 1971.
- (ed.) Short African plays. African Writers Series 78. London: Heinemann, 1972.
- (ed.) Five African plays. African Writers Series 114. London: Heinemann, 1972.
- (ed. with Dennis Duerden) African writers talking: a collection of radio interviews, 1972
- (ed. with Gwyneth Henderson), Nine African plays for radio. African Writers Series 114. London: Heinemann, 1973
- Echo and choruses: "Ballad of the cells", and selected shorter poems, 1974
- (ed.) Summer fires: new poetry of Africa, 1983
References
- ^ Donald E. Herdeck, African authors: a companion to Black African writing', 1973, p.344
- ^ Alex La Guma, Apartheid: a collection of writings on South African racism by South Africans. New York: International Publishers, 1971, p. 76
- ^ Hans Karssenberg, City Poem 67- Cape Town, 1 January 2004
- ^ John Shattuck, 'Appendix A. Federal Restrictions on the Free Flow of Academic Information and Ideas', in Association of Research Libraries, Minutes of the Meeting, Issues 107-109, p. A.28
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