The Writers' Seminar with Karen Jennings
The Department of English Literary Studies and the Institute for Creative Arts warmly invite you to join us on Tuesday, October 4th from 16-17:30 (Hiddingh Hall) for a discussion between Sindiswa Busuku (UCT) and acclaimed South African author Karen Jennings about her award-winning novel An Island (2020).
Karen Jennings is a Cape Town-based writer and academic. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is the author of three novels, An Island, Travels with My Father (2016), and Finding Soutbek (2012), as well as having published a short story collection and a volume of poetry. She has won the Maskew Miller Longman Literature Award and the Commonwealth Short Story Competition for her short fiction. Her most recent novel, An Island, was longlisted for The Booker Prize and co-winner of the K.Sello Duiker Memorial Award in 2021. She is also the founder of The Island Prize, which seeks to help unpublished African writers to break into the UK publishing scene.
Please note that this will be an in-person event and that the talk will be held at Hiddingh Campus in the Hiddingh Hall above the library.
We hope that you will be able to join us. All are welcome.
If you have any questions about the event, please direct them to Dr Oliver Melvill at oliver.melvill@uct.ac.za.