Sylvia Vollenhoven

The Keeper of the Kumm (eBook, ePUB)

Ancestral longing and belonging of a Boesmankind

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Award-winning journalist Sylvia Vollenhoven tells the story of her life and how it's been turned upside down by an Ancestor: //Kabbo, a Bushman storyteller and revolutionary. She writes of being "too black" for her coloured school mates, working as one of the early female journalists in the misogynistic '70s and of the constant struggle to find an identity that fits. Finally, she unearths a history that speaks to her: first in the language of a long, nameless illness without conventional cure, and then in the Calling of her Ancestors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tafelberg
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780624063094
• Artikelnr.: 49953976

Autorenporträt

Sylvia Vollenhoven is an award-winning journalist and playwright as well as a filmmaker. She was nominated for the South African Film & TV Awards for Best Director and Best Documentary. A play she co-authored, My Word: Redesigning Buckingham Palace, was chosen for a run on London's West End. It received a four-star review in the prestigious Times newspaper. At the Grahamstown National Arts Festival another of her plays, Cold Case: Revisiting Dulcie September, won both a Standard Bank Audience Award and the inaugural Adelaide Tambo Award for Human Rights in the Arts. In the early '90s, Vollenhoven was the Southern African Correspondent for the Swedish newspaper, Expressen, and was awarded Sweden's top journalism prize by Scandinavia's prestigious Publicist Klubben. She is the founder of the VIA - Vision in Africa media organisation, which has spearheaded innovative international training initiatives, including a project called Africa Means Business to improve coverage of economics. In her spare time she does yoga and breathes very deeply.