It gives us great pleasure to announce that the award-winning South African writers- Dumisani Hlatswayo and Sindiswa Busuku – were selected to share the residency programme of the Jakes Gerwel Foundation and Passa Porta International House of Literature in Brussels with the Belgian writers, Fleur Pierets and Yousra Benfquih.
In 2017 Dumisani Hlatswayo’s second novel Imibala Yothando won the Sanlam Literature Award for Youth Literature. His work is also prescribed for schools.
Sindiswa Busuku debuted with Loud and Yellow Laughter, winner of the 2018 Ingrid Jonker prize for poetry.
Fleur Pierets is an award-winning artist and writer as well as an LGBTQ+ activist. She combines different media such as photography and performance arts with writing.
Besides being a jurist in international human rights, Yousra Benfquih is also an author, columnist, poet and spoken-word artist.
For more information about the Jakes Gerwel Foundations residency programmes at Paulet House in Somerset East: visit www.jgf.org.za, or email Theo Kemp – theo@jgf.org.za
Theo Kemp obtained his master’s degree in creative writing at Stellenbosch University. He has been involved with various projects in the arts before his role as, among others, project manager of the Woordfees, advertising coordinator at NB Publishers, programme manager at the KKNK as well as at the Vrystaat Literature Festival and as executive director of the Breytenbach Centre in Wellington.
Theo is also the author of three novels, Skool, Strafjaart and Klein Konings.
