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Don Maclennan

ドン・マクレナン

Don Maclennan

Aliases: Donald Alasdair Calum Maclennan

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1929-12-09 (London, England)
Died
2009-02-09 (Port Elizabeth, South Africa) age 79
Nationality
South Africa
Languages
English
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
London, England → South Africa (from 1938) → Grahamstown, Rhodes University

Career

Occupations
poet, critic, playwright, English professor
Active Years
1971-2012
Affiliations
Witwatersrand University, University of Cape Town, Rhodes University

Education

University of the Witwatersrand
Department of English
Country: South Africa
University of Edinburgh
Department of English
Country: United Kingdom

Awards

Sanlam Literary Award
1997
Work: Solstice: Poems
Organization: Sanlam
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Solstice: Poems

1997 poetry

Poetry collection, winner of the Sanlam Literary Award.

Reckonings

1983 poetry

Collected Poems

2012 poetry

Posthumously published collected poems.

The Road to Kromdraai

2002 poetry

Bibliography

  • In Memoriam Oskar Wolberheim
  • Life Songs
  • Bateleur Poets
  • Reckonings
  • Collecting Darkness
  • Letters: New Poems
  • The Poetry Lesson: New Poems
  • Solstice: Poems
  • Of Women and Some Men
  • Notes from a Rhenish Mission
  • A Brief History of Madness in the Eastern Cape
  • Rock paintings at Salem
  • The Road to Kromdraai
  • The Dinner Party
  • A Letter to William Blake
  • Under Compassberg
  • Excavations
  • Reading the Signs
  • The necessary salt
  • Selected Poems
  • The owl of Minerva
  • Through a Glass Darkly
  • Dress Rehearsal
  • Collected Poems
  • An Enquiry into the Voyage of the Santiago
  • Job Mava
  • My Childhood
  • A Ruthless Fidelity: Collected Poems of Douglas Livingstone
  • Olive Schreiner and After: Essays on Southern African Literature in Honour of Guy Butler
  • Perspectives on South African Fiction

Health

  • motor-neurone disease
    最後の10年間
    Affected his final years
  • stroke
    2009年1月
    Suffered in January 2009, mind unaffected

Legacy

South African poet, critic, playwright, and academic who taught English at Rhodes University for over 40 years and published numerous poetry collections, including the Sanlam Literary Award winner Solstice.

Trivia

  • Taught English at Rhodes University for more than 40 years starting in 1966.
  • Continued giving weekly seminars after official retirement in 1994.
  • Self-published numerous poetry works in his final years.