Gabeba Baderoon’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro South African poet
Is Poet 
Writer 
From South Africa 
Type Literature 
Gender female
Birth 21 February 1969
Age: 51 years
Star sign Pisces
Education
University of Cape Town

Gabeba Baderoon (born 21 February 1969) is a South African poet and academic. She is the 2005 recipient of the Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry. She lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, and Pennsylvania, USA, and serves as an Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and African and African American Studies at Penn State.

Early years and education

Gabeba Baderoon was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on 21 February 1969. In 1989 she received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town in English and Psychology. In 1991 she was awarded a First-class Honours degree in English from the University of Cape Town BA Honours program. She attained her Master of Arts in English with Distinction at the University of Cape Town in Postmodernist Television (Media Studies) and in 2004 completed her doctoral studies in Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, the same year spending time at the University of Sheffield, UK, as a Visiting Scholar. She also completed her dissertation entitled “Oblique Figures: Representations of Islam in South African Media and Culture.” She divides her life between Port Elizabeth and Pennsylvania.

Poetry collections

  • The Dream in the Next Body (2005):

    • Notable Book of 2005 by the Sunday Independent in South Africa
    • Sunday Times Recommended Book
  • The Museum of Ordinary Life (2005)
  • A hundred silences (2006):

    • shortlisted for the 2007 University of Johannesburg Prize
    • 2007 Olive Schreiner Award
  • The Silence Before Speaking
  • Cinnamon (2009)
  • The History of Intimacy (2018)

Awards

  • 2005: Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry
  • 2005: Guest Writer Fellowship at the Nordic Africa Institute
  • 2008: Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Italy
  • 2008: Writer’s Residency at the University of Witwatersrand
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