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Peter Anderson [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Sherman, TX
Texas US
Email: 
panderson@austincollege.edu
Bio: 

An award-winning South African writer, I teach postcolonial literature(s) and creative writing at Austin College in Sherman, North Texas. At present, I hold to this quatrain by William Plomer: "That was the Africa we knew / Where, wandering alone, / We saw, heraldic in the heat / A scorpion on a stone."

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Johannesburg
South Africa
Raised in: 
Johannesburg
South Africa
Website: 
https://www.writerpeteranderson.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Literary Fiction Book Review Award for Excellence in Literary Fiction.

Alex la Guma Award in the International Novel

What I'm reading now: 
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Sozaboy by Ken Saro-Wiwa
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Selected Letters: Nikos Kazantzakis by ed. Peter Bien
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
Prefers to work with: 
Adults

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