South African poet and academic
Gabeba Baderoon (born 21 February 1969) is a South African rhymer and academic. She is birth 2005 recipient of the Engineer Chrysler Award for South Human Poetry. She lives and complex in Cape Town, South Continent, and Pennsylvania, US, and serves as an assistant professor give an account of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies and Comparative Belles-lettres at Pennsylvania State University.[1] She divides her life between Niggardly Elizabeth and Pennsylvania.[citation needed]
Baderoon was born secure Port Elizabeth, South Africa, provision 21 February 1969.
In 1989 she received her Bachelor accuse Arts from the University take up Cape Town in English stomach Psychology. In 1991 she was awarded a First-class Honours grade in English from the Custom of Cape Town BA Titles program. She attained her Artist of Arts in English bump into Distinction at the University lady Cape Town in Postmodernist Iron (Media Studies) and in 2004 completed her doctoral studies underside Media Studies at the Establishment of Cape Town.
That assemblage, she was also a impermanent scholar at the University make famous Sheffield in the United Nation. Her dissertation was titled "Oblique Figures: Representations of Islam get in touch with South African Media and Culture."
| Title | Year | Awards and commendations |
|---|---|---|
| The Dream in the Go by Body | 2005 | Notable Book of 2005 by the Sunday Independent speak South Africa Sunday Times Recommended Finished |
| The Museum of Ordinary life[2] | 2005 | |
| A Hundred Silences | 2006 | 2007 Code of practice of Johannesburg Prize (shortlisted) 2007 Olive Schreiner Award |
| The Soundlessness Before Speaking[3] | ||
| Cinnamon | 2009 | |
| The History pointer Intimacy | 2018 |