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John Eppel
Ecrivain/ne, Poète, Directeur/trice de télévision
Afrique du Sud, Zimbabwe
English
John Eppel is widely recognised to be one of Zimbabwe’s leading novelists and poets. He was born in Lydenburg, South Africa. He moved to Colleen Bawn, a small mining town in the south of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), at the age of four.
He lives in Bulawayo where he teaches English at Christian Brothers College. His first novel, D.G.G. Berry’s The Great North Road, won the M-Net Prize in South Africa. His second novel, Hatchings, which was short-listed for the M-Net Prize and was chosen for the series in the Times Literary Supplement on the most significant books to have come out of Africa, was republished by’amaBooks in 2006. His first book of poems, Spoils of War, won the Ingrid Jonker Prize. His other novels and poetry anthologies have received critical acclaim.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
– « Spoils of War » (poems), 1989
– « D G G Berry’s The Great North Road », 1992 (won the M-Net Prize in South Africa)
– « Hatchings », 1993
– « The Giraffe Man », 1994
– « Sonata for Matabeleland », 1995
– « Selected poems 1965-1995 », 1995
– « The Heart in Exile, South African Poetry in English 1990-1995 » (anthology), 1996
– « The Curse of the Ripe Tomato », 2001
– « The Holy Innocents », 2002
– « The Caruso of Colleen Bawn and Other Short Writings », 2004
– « Songs My Country Taught Me » (Collected Poems 1965-2005), 2005
– « Hatchings » (reprint), Republished by’amaBooks in 2006
– « White Man Crawling », 2007
– « Intwasa Poetry » (anthology), 2008
– « Absent: The English Teacher », 2009
– « Together » (with Julius Chingono), 2011
– « Textures », 2014
For his biography visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eppel
He lives in Bulawayo where he teaches English at Christian Brothers College. His first novel, D.G.G. Berry’s The Great North Road, won the M-Net Prize in South Africa. His second novel, Hatchings, which was short-listed for the M-Net Prize and was chosen for the series in the Times Literary Supplement on the most significant books to have come out of Africa, was republished by’amaBooks in 2006. His first book of poems, Spoils of War, won the Ingrid Jonker Prize. His other novels and poetry anthologies have received critical acclaim.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
– « Spoils of War » (poems), 1989
– « D G G Berry’s The Great North Road », 1992 (won the M-Net Prize in South Africa)
– « Hatchings », 1993
– « The Giraffe Man », 1994
– « Sonata for Matabeleland », 1995
– « Selected poems 1965-1995 », 1995
– « The Heart in Exile, South African Poetry in English 1990-1995 » (anthology), 1996
– « The Curse of the Ripe Tomato », 2001
– « The Holy Innocents », 2002
– « The Caruso of Colleen Bawn and Other Short Writings », 2004
– « Songs My Country Taught Me » (Collected Poems 1965-2005), 2005
– « Hatchings » (reprint), Republished by’amaBooks in 2006
– « White Man Crawling », 2007
– « Intwasa Poetry » (anthology), 2008
– « Absent: The English Teacher », 2009
– « Together » (with Julius Chingono), 2011
– « Textures », 2014
For his biography visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eppel
Livres(s)
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The giraffe manRomanJohn Eppel est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que ecrivain/ne
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Sonata for MatabelelandRomanJohn Eppel est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que ecrivain/ne
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White Man CrawlingRecueilWhite Man Crawling is a collection of short stories and poems by the award winning Bulawayo writer John Eppel. His stories are uncomfortably funny; his poems uncomfortably sad. His stories speak first to all of…John Eppel est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que ecrivain/ne
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TogetherRecueil de poésieTHE TWO ZIMBABWEAN WRITERS featured in this collection of stories and poems could not be more different. John Eppel is an English literature teacher in Bulawayo; Julius Chingono, from Norton, near Harare, was a…John Eppel est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que poète
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TexturesRecueil de poésiePoems by John Eppel and Togara Muzanenhamo. Suburban and cosmopolitan, youthful and elderly, formal and experimental, these binaries twist like threads which meet in this anthology, and interweave on the loo…John Eppel est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que poète
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The Holy InnocentsRomanA satirical novel by John Eppel, about life in Zimbabwe’s second city Bulawayo, with cults and muti murders, and the exploitation of the poor and powerless by the rich and powerful. 216 x 140 mmJohn Eppel est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que ecrivain/ne
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HatchingsRomanNovel by John Eppel, first published by Carrefour in 1993, then republished by amaBooks in 2006. It is New Year in Bulawayo, and anybody who is anybody is out celebrating. Hatchings, with an introduction by …John Eppel est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que ecrivain/ne
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The Curse of the Ripe TomatoRomanBy John Eppel. A hilarious send-up of Enid Blyton adventure stories. It mocks fundamentalism, racism, and pseudo-intellectuality. The novel asks, in the most unlikely manner, for reconciliation among the bli…John Eppel est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que ecrivain/ne
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The Caruso of Colleen Bawn and Other Short WritingsNouvellesBy John Eppel. The Caruso of Colleen Bawn and Other Short Writings is a collection of short stories and poems from the Zimbabwean author John Eppel. The pieces range from poetry evocative of the sights, soun…John Eppel est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que ecrivain/ne
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Absent. The English TeacherRomanFirst novel of John Eppel. ‘When George J. George mistook his white Ford Escort for the moon, he knew his time was up.’ When Mr George loses his job teaching English at a private secondary school in Bul…John Eppel est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que ecrivain/ne
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Songs My Country Taught MeRecueil de poésieBy John Eppel. ‘If the form of my poetry is thoroughly European, its content is thoroughly African.’ Thus the author introduces this collection of some eighty of his poems written between the late 1950s and …John Eppel est lié(e) à ce livre en tant que poète
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