Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize (Newdigate Prize)
1 appearances
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Edition 0 (1973) Winner
Christopher Michael Mann
クリストファー・マイケル・マん
Kurisfafā Maikeru Man
Aliases:
Chris Mann / Zithulele Mann
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1948-04-06 （Port Elizabeth）
- Died
- 2021-03-10 （Grahamstown） age 72
- Nationality
- South Africa
- Languages
- English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa
- Residence History
- Port Elizabeth → Cape Town → Johannesburg → Oxford → London → Grahamstown → Near Durban (KwaNyuswa)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, professor of poetry, lecturer, NGO worker
- Active Years
- 1979-2021
- Affiliations
- Rhodes University, Valley Trust, Institute for the Study of English in Africa
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diocesan College | — | English and Philosophy | — | — | South Africa |
| University of the Witwatersrand | — | English and Philosophy | — | — | South Africa |
| School of Oriental and African Studies | — | African Oral Literature | — | — | United Kingdom |
| Oxford University | — | English Language and Literature | MA | — | United Kingdom |
Diocesan College
English and Philosophy
Country:
South Africa
High school
University of the Witwatersrand
English and Philosophy
Country:
South Africa
School of Oriental and African Studies
African Oral Literature
Country:
United Kingdom
SOAS, University of London
Oxford University
English Language and Literature
Degree:
MA
Country:
United Kingdom
Rhodes Scholar
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Newdigate Prize | MA work | — | Oxford University | 受賞 |
| — | Olive Schreiner Prize | — | 南アフリカ英語詩 | — | 受賞 |
| — | South African Performing Arts Councils’ Playwright Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| — | Hon.D.Litt. | — | — | University of Durban-Westville (now University of KwaZulu-Natal) | 受賞 |
| — | Eastern Cape Premier’s Award for Literature | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| — | Thomas Pringle Award | — | 詩 | English Academy of South Africa | 受賞 |
| 2014 | Standard Bank Ovation Award (Silver) | The Ballad of Dirk de Bruin | — | National Arts Festival | 受賞 |
| 2019 | Gold Medal | — | — | English Academy of South Africa | 受賞 |
Newdigate Prize
Work:
MA work
Organization:
Oxford University
Result:
受賞
Olive Schreiner Prize
Category:
南アフリカ英語詩
Result:
受賞
South African Performing Arts Councils’ Playwright Award
Result:
受賞
Hon.D.Litt.
Organization:
University of Durban-Westville (now University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Result:
受賞
Eastern Cape Premier’s Award for Literature
Result:
受賞
Thomas Pringle Award
Category:
詩
Organization:
English Academy of South Africa
Result:
受賞
Standard Bank Ovation Award (Silver)
2014
Work:
The Ballad of Dirk de Bruin
Organization:
National Arts Festival
Result:
受賞
Gold Medal
2019
Organization:
English Academy of South Africa
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Olive Schreiner Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 24 (1983) Winner
Thomas Pringle Award
1 appearances
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Edition 43 (2007) Winner
Works
Major Works
South Africans
1996 portrait-poemsA set of portrait-poems of South Africans
South African identity
Bibliography
- First Poems (1979)
- A New Book of South African Verse (1979)
- New Shades (1982)
- Kites, and Other Poems (1990)
- Mann Alive!: Poems (1992)
- South Africans: a set of portrait-poems (1996)
- The horn of plenty: a series of painting-poems (1997)
- Heartlands (2002)
- Home from Home: New and Selected Poems (2010)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- colloquial multilingual
- Recurring Motifs
- South African landscapesidentityfaith
Legacy
Prominent South African English-language poet and professor of poetry at Rhodes University, known for promoting multilingual poetry.
Trivia
- Had the isiZulu nickname 'Zithulele' meaning 'the quiet one'.
- Married to artist Julia Skeen.