Cosmo Pieterse

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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 published by Heinemann.

Works

  • (ed.) Ten One-act Plays. London: Heinemann Educational Books, African Writers Series 34, 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. London: Heinemann, African Writers Series 78, 1972.
  • (ed.) Five African Plays. London: Heinemann, African Writers Series 114, 1972.
  • (ed. with Dennis Duerden) African Writers Talking: a collection of radio interviews, 1972.
  • (ed. with Gwyneth Henderson), Nine African Plays for Radio. London: Heinemann, African Writers Series 114, 1973.
  • Echo and Choruses: "Ballad of the cells", and selected shorter poems, 1974.
  • (ed.) Summer Fires: new poetry of Africa, 1983.

References

  1. ↑ Donald E. Herdeck, African Authors: a companion to Black African writing, 1973, p. 344.
  2. ↑ Alex La Guma, Apartheid: a collection of writings on South African racism by South Africans. New York: International Publishers, 1971, p. 76.
  3. ↑ Hans Karssenberg, City Poem 67- Cape Town, 1 January 2004.
  4. ↑ 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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