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Bronwyn Law-Viljoen
Born(1968-07-09)July 9, 1968
EducationMaster's of Arts
Ph.D. in Literature
Ph.D. in Creative Writing
Alma materRhodes University
New York University
University of the Witwatersrand
AwardsFulbright Scholar
Scientific career
FieldsLiterature

Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (born July 9, 1968) is a South African writer, editor, publisher and professor.

Education

Law-Viljoen has an MA degree from Rhodes University in South Africa, a PhD in Literature from New York University and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Career

Author

Law-Viljoen's first novel, The Printmaker, was published in 2016 (Umuzi/Penguin Random House).[1] It was shortlisted for the premier fiction prize in South Africa for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Award,[2] and won the 2018 English Academy of South Africa Olive Schreiner Prize.[3] It appeared in French in 2019 (Editions Zoé).[4]

Academic

Law-Viljoen is an associate professor, the head of the Department of Creative Writing and the deputy head of the School of Literature, Language and Media at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.[5]

Editor

Law-Viljoen was the editor of the arts magazine Art South Africa and editor-in-chief at David Krut Publishing in Johannesburg.[6] Prior to that she completed an internship at the independent photography publishing company, Aperture, in New York.

She is the editor and co-founder of Fourthwall Books,[5] an independent publisher of books on art and photography established in South Africa in 2010. By 2020, the company had published 41 books and won several important awards: the 2010 Jane Jacobs Best Urban Book Award (New York) for Writing the City into Being; the 2011 Antalis Book Design Award for Fire Walker; the 2015 Jan Rabie Rapport Prize for Non-Fiction for Nagmusiek; the 2015 Kyknet Rapport Prize for Fiction for Nagmusiek; the 2016 Eugene Marais Prize for Nagmusiek; the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award 2019 for Everyone is Present. Through Fourthwall Books, she has been involved in the editing and publishing of a number of authors' works, including Flute by William Kentridge, Light on a Hill with contributions by multiple architects, builders, and court judges that Law-Viljoen helped to compile,[7], and Art and Justice on the history and conception of the constitutional court in South Africa.[8][9]

She also opened her own bookstore called Edition in Milpark, Johannesburg as an extension of her publishing company.[10]

Bibliography

Novels

Books edited

  • Fire Walker: William Kentridge, Gerhard Marx (with Oliver Barstow, 2011, Fourthwall Books)[13]
  • William Kentridge Nose: Thirty Etchings (2010, David Krut Publishing)
  • Art and Justice: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2008, David Krut Publishing)[14]
  • William Kentridge Flute (2007, David Krut Publishing)[15]
  • Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2006, David Krut Publishing)[16]
  • William Kentridge Prints (2006, David Krut Publishing)[17]

Awards and honours

  • 2018: Olive Schreiner Prize from the English Academy of South Africa, for The Printmaker[3]
  • 2017: The Printmaker shortlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Award[2]
  • 2017: Ampersand Writer's Residency, New York
  • 2001: Americanist Molberger Prize for Literature of the Transition
  • 2001: Carnworth-Callender Award
  • 1996–1998: Fulbright Scholarship, New York University

References

  1. ^ "A portrait of the artist as an old man". Pretoria News. January 30, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Smith, Tymon (May 16, 2017). "And the final contenders are..." The Times. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  3. ^ a b Malec, Jennifer (August 27, 2019). "English Academy of Southern Africa Awards winners announced". The Johannesburg Review of Books. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  4. ^ a b ""Le Graveur" (The Printmaker), by Bronwyn Law - Viljoen , translated from English (South Africa) by Elisabeth Gilles". Le Monde diplomatique. September 26, 2019. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  5. ^ a b "20th wordsmith fest set for great line-up: Focus on alumni, KZN authors and short stories". The Independent on Saturday. March 11, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  6. ^ "Bronwyn Law-Viljoen's speech at the opening for Lynda Ballen's DE DIVITIIS 2016-09 – DAVID KRUT PROJECTS".
  7. ^ "SMS to win these books from David Krut Publishing". The Sunday Independent. August 17, 2008. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  8. ^ "Celebration of creative arts". Pretoria News. December 22, 2008. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  9. ^ von Klemperer, Margaret (April 30, 2015). "Showcasing art and justice". News24. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  10. ^ Zvomuya, Percy (April 5, 2013). "Bibliophile for all seasons". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  11. ^ "Bronwyn Law-Viljoen". Cape Times. November 25, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  12. ^ Louw P (2017). "The Printmaker". Tydskrif vir Letterkunde. 54 (2): 169–171. doi:10.17159/tvl.v.54i2.2976. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
  13. ^ "Fire Walker, Oliver Barstow & Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (Eds.) : book review". De Arte. 47 (85): 89–91. January 1, 2012. hdl:10520/EJC124925 – via journals.co.za (Atypon).
  14. ^ "Art and justice : the art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (Ed.) : book reviews". De Arte. 44 (80): 70–73. January 1, 2009. doi:10.1080/00043389.2009.11877116. hdl:10520/EJC31077. S2CID 218602453 – via journals.co.za (Atypon).
  15. ^ MacKenny, Virginia. "William Kentridge-Flute, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (Ed.): book review" – via www.academia.edu. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  16. ^ "Light on a hill : building the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (Ed.) : book review". De Arte. 42 (75): 86–88. January 1, 2007. hdl:10520/EJC310112 – via journals.co.za (Atypon).
  17. ^ "Thinking Aloud, Small Thoughts, Falcon and Dove – DAVID KRUT PROJECTS".
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