K. Sello Duiker

K. Sello Duiker
Born	13 April 1974(1974-04-13) Orlando, Soweto, South Africa
Died	19 January 2005(2005-01-19) (aged 30)
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	South African

Kabelo "Sello" Duiker, (April 13, 1974 – January 19, 2005), was a South African novelist. His debut novel, Thirteen Cents, won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book written by an African writer. He also worked in advertising and as a screenwriter, at the time of his death he was working as an editor of drama for SABC1.

Duiker, the eldest of three brothers, was born in Orlando, Soweto at the height of apartheid. Coming from a moderately wealthy family he was sent to a public school, where he was one of the very few black pupils. During his school-years the schools in South Africa were very much at the centre of the anti-apartheid movement. This personal experience of the social-struggles influenced Duiker greatly, his novels treated racial difference as largely immaterial, being basically cosmetic.

Duiker received a degree in journalism from Rhodes University, he also briefly studied at the University of Cape Town. He suffered a nervous breakdown in 2004 prior to committing suicide by hanging himself in Northcliff, Johannesburg, in January 2005. His death came a month after that of his contemporary Phaswane Mpe.

Bibliography

• Thirteen Cents. New Africa Books. 2000. ISBN 9780864863577. http://books.google.com/books?id=_0p1t1VqqecC&printsec=frontcover&dq=K.+Sello+Duiker&hl=en&ei=JJ8fTq6rOKPm0QG_kpXfAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• The Quiet Violence Of Dreams, Kwela Books, 2001, ISBN 9780795701207
• The Hidden Star Umuzi, 2006, ISBN 9781415200032

• K Sello Duiker's The quiet violence of dreams: adapted for the stage, Junkets Publisher, 2010, ISBN 9780620481533
• "When You Least Expect It", Modern South African stories, Stephen Gray (ed) A.D. Donker, 2002, ISBN 9780868522265