Author and playwright, Chase Rhys, is about to head off to New York to teach a course in the local version of Afrikaans, known as Kaaps.
Click on the link to listen to Chase Rhys talk about Kaaps to John Maytham on Cape Talk
Kaaps to be taught at Columbia University – Afternoon Drive with John Maytham – Omny.fm
- Ocean View’s very own Chase Rhys is the first recipient of the Jakes Gerwel Foundation New York Fellowship 2024. Author, Rapport columnist, playwright, screenwriter and passionate advocate of Kaaps, Chase joins the faculty of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning authors at Columbia University’s School of the Arts as an adjunct professor for the spring semester 2024. The art of storytelling in Kaaps is what Chase will teach in their masterclass: Narrative Resistance – Writing Authentic Stories of Resilience and Identity in Diverse Communities.
Cover photo: Jeremeo Le Cordeur
Caption: Chase Rhys with his publisher Stevlyn Vermeulen (Kwela)
Chase Rhys (1989) is a Cape Town novelist, columnist, playwright and screenwriter. Their debut book Kinnes won the K. Sello Duiker Prize and the kykNET-Rapport Prize in the film category in 2019. Chase’s second book Misfit – stories vannie anne kant, is a compilation of new and reworked stories from his Suikewate column in Rapport.
