K. Sello Duiker
K. Sello Duiker (born April 13, 1974 in Soweto , South Africa ; † January 19, 2005 in Northcliff , Johannesburg ; actually Kabelo Duiker ) was a South African writer . Duiker studied journalism and art history at Rhodes University in Grahamstown .
His debut novel Thirteen Cents , which tells of the sad and violent reality of Cape Town street children, won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel - Africa . For his second novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams , which is about the losers of the new South Africa, K. Sello Duiker received the Herman Charles Bosman Prize . The Quiet Violence of Dreams was performed in a stage adaptation at the National Art Festival in 2008 ; the novel was published in German in 2010.
Duiker suffered a nervous breakdown in 2004 and committed suicide in January 2005.
Works
- Thirteen Cents (2001)
- The Quiet Violence of Dreams , Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2004, ISBN 0-7957-0120-9 .
- The silent violence of dreams . Translated by Judith Reker, Heidelberg: Verl. Das Wunderhorn, 2010, ISBN 978-3-88423-339-9 .
- The Hidden Star (2005)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Duiker, K. Sello |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duiker, Kabelo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soweto , South Africa |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 2005 |
| Place of death | Northcliff , Johannesburg |