Karin Schimke
Karin Schimke | |
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Born | 1968 (age 52–53) |
Nationality | South African |
Alma mater | University of Pretoria, University of Stellenbosch (1991) |
Occupation | Writer and editor, poet, translator |
Notable work | Bare and Breaking (2012), Navigate (2017), The Karen Book of Rules (2020) |
Children | Oliver Keohane, Julia Keohane |
Awards |
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Karin Schimke (born 1968) is a South African writer. She has won awards for her poetry and literary translations. She works as a writer and editor.
Early life[]
Karin Schimke was born in1968 in Pretoria, South Africa to a German father and Afrikaans mother. She attended Clapham High School in Queenswood before going on to study languages at the University of Pretoria. She obtained a postgraduate degree in Journalism from the University of Stellenbosch and started her writing career in 1991, working as a bilingual news reporter at Die Eikestadnuus, an award-winning community newspaper in Stellenbosch. She started working full-time as a reporter for The Argus the following year. She spent two years working at The Star in Johannesburg but has spent most of her adult life in Cape Town.
Career[]
Writing[]
Schimke worked at some of South Africa's largest newspapers including The Argus, The Star and The Cape Times, as a political reporter, before going freelance in 2000.[1] She returned to The Cape Times for five years as the freelance books page editor from 2010 to 2015.
Schimke has contributed to a broad range of newspapers and magazines including Mail & Guardian, Daily Maverick.,[2] The Sunday Times,[3] Marie Claire, Visi,[4] Elle, Financial Mail, Business Day, African Decisions, The Argus, The Star, The Cape Times, Rapport, Fair Lady,[5] Real Simple, High Life and Psychologies. She was a humour columnist for Femina magazine, as well as for Parent24[6]
In 2006, Schimke co-authored the bestselling, Fabulously 40 and beyond: coming into your power and embracing change,[7] with Margie Orford and her latest book, The Karen Book of Rules (NB Publishers)[8] with comedy writer Karen Jeynes,[9] was released in September 2020.[10]
Poetry[]
Schimke's debut poetry collection, Bare & Breaking (Modjaji Books),[11] was published in 2012. The collection won the Ingrid Jonker Prize in 2014.[12] Her second volume, Navigate
(Modjaji Books), was published in 2017.[13]
She has performed her own poetry at the Woordfees, Badilisha Poetry X-Change,[14] the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefee and poetry-on-the-road in Bremen,[15] Germany, in various podcasts and in radio interviews. Her work has been published in New Coin, New Contrast, Stanzas and Carapace[16] and has been featured in Paris Lit Up magazine, The Atlanta Review, Mslexia, as well as a collection of poetry from South Africa translated into German, called Ankunft eines weiteren Tages,[17] published by Afrika Wunderhorn.[18]
Translations[]
In 2019, Schimke, together with Leon de Kock, won the 2019 Sol Plaatje Translation Award[19] for Flame in the Snow, the English translation of Vlam in die Sneeu, a collection of love letters written in the 1960s between novelist André Brink and poet Ingrid Jonker.[20] She regularly translates the work of the well-known Afrikaans thriller writer Irma Venter.
Editor[]
Schimke edited Open[21] (Oshun, Struik, 2008) a collection of women's erotic writing by some of South Africa's top female writers. She has edited the work of well-known South African authors like Martin Steyn,[22] Chanette Paul,[23] Dov Fedler[24] and Bronwyn Davids[25]
Writing coach[]
Schimke is a writing coach,[26] developmental editor, course designer and mentor.[citation needed]
Awards and honours[]
- Sol Plaatje Translation Award, 2019 for Flame in the Snow, an English translation of Vlam in die Sneeu. With Leon De Kock.
- South African Literary Awards, Translation Award, 2016 for Flame in the Snow: The Love Letters of Andre Brink & Ingrid Jonker.
- Ingrid Jonker Award for Poetry, 2014 for her debut collection, Bare and Breaking.
- Finalist in South African Literary Awards, 2013
- Finalist in Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award, 2013
- Winner of the Sylt Foundation Writer's Retreat in Sylt, Germany, 2013
Selected works[]
Poetry[]
- Bare & Breaking (Modjaji Books 2012): ISBN 978-1-920397-97-5
- Navigate (Modjaji Books 2017): ISBN 978-1-928215-26-4.
Non-fiction books[]
- Fabulously 40 and Beyond: Coming into Your Power and Embracing Change (With Margie Orford - 30 September 2006). Spearhead P. ISBN 978-0-86486-588-5.
- The Karen Book of Rules with Karen Jeynes, 2020 ISBN 9780624090915
- Contraception and Prevention (Pearson Education 2011) ISBN 9780435074999
- The Internet (Pearson Education 2011) ISBN 0435075039
Editor[]
- Open: An Erotic Anthology by South African Women Writers (Oshun 2008). ISBN 1770075720
Contributor[]
- Difficult to Explain (Modjaji Books 2010) ISBN 978-1-920397-23-4
- Living While Feminist: Our Bodies, Our Truths (NB Publishers). ISBN 9780795709418
Translation[]
- Flame in the Snow: The Love Letters of Andre P.Brink and Ingrid Jonker (Penguin Random House 2017) ISBN 9781415208786
References[]
- ^ "About Karin Schimke | Karin Schimke". Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- ^ Schimke, Karin (2020-05-14). "MAVERICK CITIZEN: FRIDAY ACTIVIST: Glenda Gray: the woman heading up South Africa's sub-team of Covid-19 pandemic research advisors". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ^ "Comics are an emerging art form in South Africa". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ^ "Offices for sharing". Visi. 2014-04-02. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
- ^ "Fairlady | THE SMART READ FOR SMART WOMEN". Retrieved 2020-08-21.
- ^ Schimke, Karin. "Columnist Parent24".
- ^ "Book of the Week: Fabulously 40 and beyond | REPRESENT.CO.ZA". represent.co.za. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ^ "NB Publishers | The Karen Book of Rules" Check
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value (help). http. Retrieved 2020-10-18. - ^ "Karen Jeynes". www.sawriterscollege.co.za. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
- ^ "Karen Jeynes". www.sawriterscollege.co.za. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
- ^ "Bare & Breaking | Modjaji Books". Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ^ at 17:14, Karina Szczurek 2014-09-26 (2014-09-26). "2014 Ingrid Jonker Prize for English Poetry". LitNet. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ^ "'How does one take part in a national dialogue when your voice carries this baggage?' Antjie Krog interviews award-winning poet Karin Schimke". The Johannesburg Review of Books. 2018-03-05. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ^ "Karin Schimke | Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets". badilishapoetry.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ^ "poetry on the road, bremen, germany". rozalie hirs. 2013-06-10. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ^ "Carapace poetry magazine". carapacepoetry.co.za. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
- ^ Schimke, Karin. "Poetry Translation".
- ^ "Verlag Das Wunderhorn – Auf diesen Seiten finden Sie das gesamte lieferbare Buchprogramm unseres Verlags, das Sie hier auch bequem online bestellen können" (in German). Retrieved 2020-08-21.
- ^ Africa, PEN South. "Karin Schimke | PEN South Africa". Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ^ "Flame in the Snow – the love letters of André Brink and Ingrid Jonker". Litnet.
- ^ "Open". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ^ "martin steyn". www.martinsteyn.com. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
- ^ "Chanette Paul". Chanette Paul. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
- ^ "Dov Fedler | Africartoons". africartoons.com. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
- ^ https://www.timeslive.co.za/authors/nb-publishers. "An authentic South African family story". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
- ^ "Karin Schimke on a writing workshop in Stanford". LitNet. 2016-11-08. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
External links[]
- 21st-century South African poets
- South African women poets
- 21st-century South African writers
- 21st-century South African women writers
- South African non-fiction writers
- 1968 births
- Living people