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Karin Schimke
Born1968 (age 55–56)
NationalitySouth African
Alma materUniversity of Pretoria, University of Stellenbosch (1991)
Occupation(s)Writer and editor, poet, translator
Notable workBare and Breaking (2012), Navigate (2017), The Karen Book of Rules (2020)
ChildrenOliver Keohane, Julia Keohane
Awards
  • Ingrid Jonker Prize
  • Sol Plaatje Translation Award
  • SALA

Karin Schimke (born 1968) is a South African writer. She has won awards for her poetry and literary translations. She works as a writer and editor.

Early life

Karin Schimke was born in1968 in Pretoria, South Africa to a German father and Afrikaans mother. She attended Clapham High School in Queenswood before going on to study languages at the University of Pretoria. She obtained a postgraduate degree in Journalism from the University of Stellenbosch and started her writing career in 1991, working as a bilingual news reporter at Die Eikestadnuus, an award-winning community newspaper in Stellenbosch. She started working full-time as a reporter for The Argus the following year. She spent two years working at The Star in Johannesburg but has spent most of her adult life in Cape Town.

Career

Writing

Schimke worked at some of South Africa's largest newspapers including The Argus, The Star and The Cape Times, as political reporter, before going freelance in 2000.[1] She returned to The Cape Times for five years as the freelance books page editor from 2010 to 2015.

Schimke has contributed to a broad range of newspapers and magazines including Mail & Guardian, Daily Maverick.,[2] The Sunday Times,[3] Marie Claire, Visi,[4] Elle, Financial Mail, Business Day, African Decisions, The Argus, The Star, The Cape Times, Rapport, Fair Lady,[5] Real Simple, High Life and Psychologies. She was a humour columnist for Femina magazine, as well as for Parent24[6]

In 2006, Schimke co-authored the bestselling, Fabulously 40 and beyond: coming into your power and embracing change,[7] with Margie Orford and her latest book, The Karen Book of Rules (NB Publishers)[8] with comedy writer Karen Jeynes,[9] was released in September 2020.[10]

Poetry

Schimke's debut poetry collection, Bare & Breaking (Modjaji Books),[11] was published in 2012. The collection won the Ingrid Jonker Prize in 2014.[12] Her second volume, Navigate

(Modjaji Books), was published in 2017.[13]

She has performed her own poetry at the Woordfees, Badilisha Poetry X-Change,[14] the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefee and poetry-on-the-road in Bremen,[15] Germany, in various podcasts and in radio interviews. Her work has been published in New Coin, New Contrast, Stanzas and Carapace[16] and has been featured in Paris Lit Up magazine,[17][failed verification] The Atlanta Review, Mslexia, as well as a collection of poetry from South Africa translated into German, called Ankunft eines weiteren Tages,[18] published by Afrika Wunderhorn.[19]

Translations

In 2019, Schimke, together with Leon de Kock, won the 2019 Sol Plaatje Translation Award[20] for Flame in the Snow, the English translation of Vlam in die Sneeu, a collection of love letters written in the 1960s between novelist André Brink and poet Ingrid Jonker.[21] She regularly translates the work of the well-known Afrikaans thriller writer Irma Venter.[22][failed verification]

Editor

Schimke edited Open[23] (Oshun, Struik, 2008) a collection of women's erotic writing by some of South Africa's top female writers. She has edited the work of well-known South African authors like Martin Steyn,[24] Chanette Paul,[25] Dov Fedler[26] and Bronwyn Davids[27]

Writing Coach

Schimke is a writing coach,[28] developmental editor, course designer and mentor, having worked at South African Writers College (2007 to 2014),[29] Highbury Safika Media (2008 to 2010, 2013)

Awards and honours

Selected works

Poetry

  • Bare & Breaking (Modjaji Books 2012): ISBN 978-1-920397-97-5
  • Navigate (Modjaji Books 2017): ISBN 978-1-928215-26-4.

Non-fiction books

Editor

  • Open: An Erotic Anthology by South African Women Writers (Oshun 2008). ISBN 1770075720

Contributor

Translation

References

  1. ^ "About Karin Schimke | Karin Schimke". Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  2. ^ Schimke, Karin (2020-05-14). "MAVERICK CITIZEN: FRIDAY ACTIVIST: Glenda Gray: the woman heading up South Africa's sub-team of Covid-19 pandemic research advisors". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  3. ^ "Comics are an emerging art form in South Africa". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  4. ^ "Offices for sharing". Visi. 2014-04-02. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
  5. ^ "Fairlady | THE SMART READ FOR SMART WOMEN". Retrieved 2020-08-21.
  6. ^ Schimke, Karin. "Columnist Parent24".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Book of the Week: Fabulously 40 and beyond | REPRESENT.CO.ZA". represent.co.za. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  8. ^ "NB Publishers | The Karen Book of Rules". http. Retrieved 2020-10-18. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  9. ^ "Karen Jeynes". www.sawriterscollege.co.za. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  10. ^ "Karen Jeynes". www.sawriterscollege.co.za. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
  11. ^ "Bare & Breaking | Modjaji Books". Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  12. ^ at 17:14, Karina Szczurek 2014-09-26 (2014-09-26). "2014 Ingrid Jonker Prize for English Poetry". LitNet. Retrieved 2020-07-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ "'How does one take part in a national dialogue when your voice carries this baggage?' Antjie Krog interviews award-winning poet Karin Schimke". The Johannesburg Review of Books. 2018-03-05. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  14. ^ "Karin Schimke | Badilisha Poetry – Pan-African Poets". badilishapoetry.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  15. ^ "poetry on the road, bremen, germany". rozalie hirs. 2013-06-10. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  16. ^ "Carapace poetry magazine". carapacepoetry.co.za. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
  17. ^ "Paris Lit Up". Paris Lit Up. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  18. ^ Schimke, Karin. "Poetry Translation".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ "Verlag Das Wunderhorn – Auf diesen Seiten finden Sie das gesamte lieferbare Buchprogramm unseres Verlags, das Sie hier auch bequem online bestellen können" (in German). Retrieved 2020-08-21.
  20. ^ Africa, PEN South. "Karin Schimke | PEN South Africa". Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  21. ^ "Flame in the Snow – the love letters of André Brink and Ingrid Jonker". Litnet.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  22. ^ "BOEKE". IRMA VENTER. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  23. ^ "Open". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  24. ^ "martin steyn". www.martinsteyn.com. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
  25. ^ "Chanette Paul". Chanette Paul. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
  26. ^ "Dov Fedler | Africartoons". africartoons.com. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
  27. ^ https://www.timeslive.co.za/authors/nb-publishers. "An authentic South African family story". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 2020-08-21. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
  28. ^ "Karin Schimke on a writing workshop in Stanford". LitNet. 2016-11-08. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  29. ^ "The Four Basics of Getting Freelance Work - by Karin Schimke". www.sawriterscollege.co.za. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
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