Farida Karodia

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Farida Karodia (* 1942 in the Cape Province ) is a South African - Canadian writer . She writes in English.

Life

Karodia was born in the area of ​​today's Eastern Cape Province as a member of the Indian population , especially the Gujarati- speaking. She worked as a teacher in Johannesburg , Zambia and Swaziland . In 1968 the South African government withdrew her passport. After being listed as an enemy of the state, she went into exile in Canada in 1969, where she worked as a writer. So she wrote radio plays for the Canadian radio. In 1986 her first novel, Daughters of the Twilight, was published, which was rather ignored by criticism in Canada.

Most of her works deal with the situation of the Indian and other non-white populations. The protagonists often violate the norms set by apartheid .

In 1991 Karodia lived in India for a while , where she wrote the screenplay for Midnight Embers and the film was produced. In 1993 her work A Shattering of Silence was published. The focus of this novel is the daughter of a Canadian missionary couple whose parents were murdered in the Mozambican civil war . In 1994 Karodia returned to South Africa from Canada. Shortly afterwards, the short story book Against an African Sky and Other Stories appeared. For her work Other Secrets , published in 2000, she rewrote Daughters of the Twilight and added two more parts. The book is set in the Eastern Cape and deals with people from three generations of different ethnic origins in the apartheid system.

Karodia lives alternately in South Africa and Canada.


Works

  • 1986: Daughters of the Twilight. Novel.
  • 1988: Coming Home and Other Stories. Stories. Heinemann.
  • 1993: A Shattering of Silence. Novel.
  • 1995: Against an African Sky and Other Stories. Stories.
  • 2000: Other Secrets. Novel.
  • 2003: Boundaries. Novel.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d entry at culturebase.net, accessed on April 9, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Mariam Pribhai: Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of industry: novels of the South Asian diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2009, ISBN 9780802099648 . Excerpts from books.google.de
  3. ↑ Portrait at oracle.reunion.pagesperso.fr (English), accessed on February 13, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Karodia, Farida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African-Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Province