“Chase Rhys has a big job ahead of them: they are taking Kaaps to Columbia University in New York City this year.
Rhys, writer of the novel Kinnes and author of a collection of columns from Rapport newspaper titled “Misfit”, is one of a handful of writers who has claimed the once maligned and mocked language of their family and given it a literary status that was unimaginable in the previous century.
Now, they will take up a position as adjunct professor at the writing school at Columbia’s School of Arts. Rhys is a recipient of a six-week international fellowship through the Jakes Gerwel Foundation,” Karin Schimke.
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Caption: Chase Rhys with Veronique Jephtas
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.
