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Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing in the Department of Literature, Creative Writing and Film at the University of Adelaide. She was previously head of Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). She is the editor and co-founder of Fourthwall Books, and a former editor of Art South Africa magazine. She received her Doctorate in Literature at New York University as a Fulbright scholar in 2003, and her Doctorate in Creative Writing from Wits in 2017. She taught Writing and Literature at New York University, and completed an extended internship at the Aperture Foundation in New York before returning to South Africa to take up the post of Managing Editor at David Krut Publishing. She has contributed to and edited many books on art, design and architecture in South Africa. Her first novel, The Printmaker, was published in 2016 (Umuzi/Penguin Random House). It was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Award and won the 2018 Olive Schreiner Prize. It appeared in French in 2019 (Editions Zoé) and in German in 2021 (Akono Verlag). Her second novel, set in New York, Johannesburg and the Eastern Cape, was published by Umuzi/Penguin Random House in 2022 and longlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Award in 2023. She has published essays and short stories in local and international journals, books and magazines. Her research interests include the relationship between images and text, printmaking, photography, and the teaching of creative writing in the Global South.
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