Yvette Christiansë

Yvette Christiansë is a South African-born poet and novelist.[1][2] She currently lives in New York City and teaches at Barnard College.[3][4]

Biography

Yvette Christiansë was born in South Africa in the apartheid era and at the age of 18 emigrated with her family via Swaziland to Australia.[3]

She is the author of a novel entitled Unconfessed (Other Press, 2006; Kwela Books, 2007; Querido, 2007), and of the poetry collections Castaway (Duke University Press, 1999) and Imprendehora (Kwela Books/Snail Press, 2009). Imprendehora was a finalist for the Via Afrika Herman Charles Bosman Prize in 2010, and Castaway was a finalist in the 2001 PEN International Poetry Prize. Her novel, Unconfessed, was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, and received a 2007 ForeWord Magazine BEA Award. It was also shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2008, and nominated for the Ama Ata Aidoo Prize 2010. Christiansë is the recipient of The Harri Jones Memorial Prize for poetry (Australia).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Uzodinma Iweala, "The Convict’s Tale", The New York Times, December 10, 2006.
  2. 1 2 "Yvette Christiansë Biography" at BookBrowse, August 15, 2013.
  3. 1 2 Yvette Christianse page at Penguin Random House.
  4. ↑ "Yvette Christiansë, Professor of English and Africana Studies", Barnard College - Columbia University.


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