Diane Awerbuck Explained

Genre:Fiction
Notableworks:Gardening at Night (Won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book (Africa and the Caribbean), and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award)
Birth Date:1974 4, df=yes
Birth Place:Kimberley, South Africa
Occupation:Novelist
Pseudonym:Frank Owen
Language:English

Diane Awerbuck (born 1 April 1974) is a South African novelist. Her novel, Gardening at Night, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book (Africa and the Caribbean), and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2011, her collection of short stories, Cabin Fever, was published by Random House Struik.[1] Her novel, Home Remedies, was published by Random House Struik in August 2012.[2] She was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2014, and won the Short Story Day Africa competition the same year.[3]

She taught at Rustenburg Girls' High School until 2002.[4] Before this, she worked as a teacher of History at Cedar House; and of Narrative and Aesthetics at AFDA, the film school, both in Cape Town.[5] Her non-fiction has appeared in the Mail & Guardian.[6] She reviews fiction for the South African Sunday Times.

Her essays and short stories are published regularly and her work has been translated into German, Swedish, Mandarin and Russian.[7] Her doctorate is in trauma narratives: The Spirit and the Letter: Trauma, Warblogs and the Public Sphere.

"Awerbuck" also writes as "Frank Owen", with co-writer Alex Latimer. Their cowboy-apocalypse novel South was published in 2016 (southvsnorth.com). The second volume North followed in 2018.[8]

Works

Novels

Short stories

As editor

Interviews

Other

Poem in Anthology, African Sun[10]

Terra Incognita : African Speculative Fiction[11]

Twenty in 20 : The Best Short Stories of South Africa's 20 Years of Democracy[12]

Ons Klyntji:OK20 The Odyssey[13]

The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories[14]

Sweet Water[15]

Mami Wata[16]

The Sea[17]

Three Poems in Anthology[18]

Atlantis and Colposcopy[19]

The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories[20]

Ons Klyntji:Bewilderbeast[21]

Interview with Jennifer Malec[22]

Duiweltjie – The Root Cellar and Other Stories[23]

Short Story for Short Story Day Africa 2013[24]

Big Issue : Collector's Edition 2[25]

Stick Man[26]

Short story in Anthology[27]

Short story in Anthology[28]

Radio Broadcast on 'Tales to Terrify', USA

Short Story[29]

Home Remedies[30]

Über(w)unden : Art in Troubled Times[31]

Short Story Day Africa Short Story excerpt

Cabin Fever[32]

Heavenly shades of nights are falling Short story in literary magazine, 'Ons Klyntji'

School photos[33]

Short story in Anthology, Elf[34]

2009 Conference: African mythology: Mami Wata The Book Lounge, Cape Town

2008 Kommst du mit?[35]

Entanglement[36]

The way you look tonight[37]

Muddy Waters, Whisky Blues[38]

Greenland[39]

Der Junge, der Turen offnete[40]

En stereo i Soweto[41]

The boy who opened doors[42]

Gardening at Night[43]

The Dirty Knees of the Mother of GodShort Story, Commonwealth Writers

Everybody Hurts[44]

Gardening at Night[45]

The Portable Pilgrim Online Column, 2003 – 2008 – www.extrange.com

Magazine contributions

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.randomstruik.co.za/about-the-author.php?authorID=5668 Randomstruik.co.za
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20140401035109/http://www.randomstruik.co.za/title-page.php?titleID=4747&imprintID=0 Randomstruik.co.za
  3. Web site: Diane Awerbuck's winning story from the new SSDA anthology, Terra Incognita, and a cover reveal! . Books Live . 21 November 2014 . 2 December 2014 . Jennifer.
  4. http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/authors/3290/diane-awerbuck/ Vintage-books.co.uk
  5. Web site: Interview with Diane Awerbuck . 19 September 2014 . 6 October 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006102339/http://www.somethingwicked.co.za/2011/09/feature-interview-diane-awerbuck/ . dead .
  6. Web site: Thoughtleader.co.za . 6 June 2011 . 7 October 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141007134902/http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/dianeawerbuck . dead .
  7. http://shortstorydayafrica.org/authors/a-d/983-2/ Short Story Day Africa
  8. Joseph-Vilain . Mélanie . 2020-06-19 . South (2016) et North (2018) de Frank Owen : diptyque post-apocalyptique américain ou sud-africain ? . fr.
  9. Web site: Malec. Jennifer. Aerodrome video with Diane Awerbuck. YouTube. Aerodrome. 19 September 2014.
  10. Book: Awerbuck. Diane. Poem in Anthology.
  11. Book: Awerbuck. Diane. Terra Incognita : African Speculative Fiction.
  12. Book: Awerbuck. Diane. Short Story in Anthology. 2014. Avusa Media / Sunday Times. Cape Town. 9781928216421.
  13. Book: Awerbuck. Diane. Ons Klyntji:OK20 The Odyssey. August 2014.
  14. Book: Awerbuck. Diane. The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories. 2014. Phosphorescence. 978-1-78026-174-4.
  15. Book: Awerbuck and Latimer. Sweet Water. 2014. Fundza.
  16. Book: Awerbuck. Mami Wata. 2014.
  17. Book: Awerbuck. My Name is Legion. 2013. Dark Continents. 9780692249512.
  18. Book: Awerbuck. Three poems in Anthology – The Sol Plaatjie/European Union Poetry Anthology, Volume 3. 2013. Jacana. 9781431409853. Atlantis and Colposcopy, Saint Francis saw the scissors, Washing Lines II.
  19. Book: Awerbuck. Washing Lines II. 2013.
  20. Book: Awerbuck. The Ghost-Easter and Other Stories. 2013. Umuzi. 9781415205686.
  21. Book: Awerbuck. Ons Klyntji:Bewilderbeast. 2013. Toast Coetzer.
  22. Web site: Awerbuck. Interview with Jennifer Malec. .
  23. Book: Awerbuck. Duiweltjie – The Root Cellar and Other Stories. 2013. Umuzi. 9781920532314.
  24. Web site: Awerbuck. Diane. Short Story for Short Story Day Africa. .
  25. News: Awerbuck. Big Issue : Collector's Edition 2. Colomn.
  26. Book: Awerbuck. Stick Man. 2012. High Life.
  27. Book: Awerbuck. English for Success, Grade 8. 2012. Oxford University Press. Cape Town. 9780199050697.
  28. Book: Awerbuck. English for Success, Grade 9. 2012. Oxford University Press. Cape Town. 9780199048182.
  29. Book: Awerbuck. Reunion. 2012. Visi.
  30. Book: Awerbuck. Home Remedies. 2012. Umuzi Books. Cape Town. 9781415201442.
  31. Book: Awerbuck. Uber(w)unden : Art in Troubled Times. 2012. Jacana. Cape Town. 9781431404971.
  32. Book: Awerbuck. Short Story Collection. 2011. Umuzi Books. Cape Town. 9781415201114.
  33. Web site: Awerbuck. School Photos. Itch.
  34. Book: Awerbuck. Der Huter. 2010. Wuppertal. 9783779502838.
  35. Book: Awerbuck. Kommst du mit?. 2008. UCT Press. Cape Town. 17–20.
  36. Web site: Awerbuck. Entanglement. 6 October 2014. 24 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103713/http://www.somethingwicked.co.za/writers/diane2.htm. dead.
  37. Book: Awerbuck. The way you look tonight. 2007. Umuzi. Cape Town. 9781415200353. 91. Mother City Queer Project.
  38. Book: Awerbuck. Nice Times : A book of South African Pleasures and Delights. 2006. Double Storey. Cape Town. 9781770130128. 64–65.
  39. Book: Awerbuck. Greenland – Design Indaba. 2006. Interactive Africa. Cape Town. 51.
  40. Book: Awerbuck. Yizo Yizo – Der Junge der Turen offnete. 2005. Wuppertal. 377950040X.
  41. Book: Awerbuck. Strumpebandssnoken. 2005. Bokforlaget Tranan, Stockholm. 9185133175. 223–233.
  42. Book: Awerbuck. 180 Degrees : New fiction by South African women writers. 2005. Oshun Books. Cape Town. 1770070427. 17–24.
  43. Book: Awerbuck. Gardening at Night. 2004. Vintage. London. 0099287358.
  44. Book: Awerbuck. Laugh it Off : South African Youth Culture. 2003. Juta and Company. 9781919930442.
  45. Book: Awerbuck. Gardening at Night. 2003. Secker and Warburg. London. 0436206102.

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