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Chase Rhys

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.

Cape Talk: Crystal Orderson interviews Chase Rhys

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 […]

LitNet Stemme: Pil

Vir Stemme, LitNet se dialoogprojek saam met die Suidoosterfees, NATi en die ATKV, is tien dramaturge genader om kort dialoë te skryf. Twintig akteurs is gevra om daarin te speel en tien […]

Die Teaterprojek Stemme word op LitNet vrygestel

“Zubayr Charles, wat LitNet se Kommadagga-slypskool voltooi het, het Haram geskryf. Quanita Adams was die regisseur en Bianca Flanders en Marunzo Thomas in die rolverdeling. Zubayr sê: Om by Suid Afrika se […]

LitNet: Chase Rhys

Nadat Chase die kykNET-Rapport-filmprys ontvang het, het Netwerk24 (15 September 2019) hulle gevra hoe hul die “vakmanskap van skryf” sien en hoekom hulle hierdie “talent” spesifiek in Afrikaans wil slyp. […]

Love letters

“My ma gie dié.” Nana se kin staan by my voodee met ’n koevertjie, my naam is in fancy kursief daaop geskryf.