The Life and Death of Rowan Du Preez: Safe House Short Story Singles

by Simone Haysom, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Editor)

Overview

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of creative nonfiction from across Africa.

In this creative nonfiction single from the Safe House anthology Simone Haysom reports on the life of a Cape Town petty criminal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781459737990
Publisher:	Dundurn Press
Publication date:	07/23/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	28
File size:	293 KB

About the Author

Simone Haysom is a writer based in Cape Town. She is a recipient of a Miles Morland Writing Award.
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE, editor, critic, and broadcaster, is former deputy editor of Granta magazine, series editor for the Kwani? Manuscript Prize, and the deputy chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing. She served as a judge for the 2015 Man Booker Prize panel. She lives in London, England.

Simone Haysom is a writer based in Cape Town. She is a recipient of a Miles Morland Writing Award.

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE, editor, critic, and broadcaster, is former deputy editor of Granta magazine, series editor for the Kwani? Manuscript Prize, and the deputy chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing. She served as a judge for the 2015 Man Booker Prize panel. She lives in London, England.