K. Sello Duiker

K. Sello Duiker ( born April 13, 1974 in Soweto, South Africa, † 19 January 2005 Northcliff, Johannesburg; actually Kabelo Duiker ) was a South African writer. Duiker studied journalism and art history at Rhodes University in Grahamstown.

His debut novel, Thirteen Cents, which tells of the sad and violent reality of Cape Town's street children was in 2001 with the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel - awarded Africa. For his second novel, The Quiet Violence of Dreams, which is about the losers of the new South Africa, K. Sello Duiker the Herman Charles Bosman Prize. The Quiet Violence of Dreams was listed in 2008 in a stage adaptation of the Standard Bank National Arts Festival, 2010, the novel was published in German.

Duiker 2004 suffered a nervous breakdown and took his life in January 2005.

Works

  • Thirteen Cents ( 2001)
  • The Quiet Violence of Dreams, Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2004, ISBN 0-7957-0120-9
  • The silence violence of dreams. Trans. by Judith Reker, Heidelberg: ET The Wunderhorn, 2010, ISBN 978-3-88423-339-9
  • The Hidden Star (2005)
  • Author
  • Literature ( South Africa)
  • Literature ( 21st century)
  • Novel, epic
  • South Africans
  • Born in 1974
  • Died in 2005
  • Man
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