Biography
Kelwyn Sole was born in Johannesburg in 1951. He studied English at the University of Witwatersrand and received a master's degree from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and a doctor of philosophy degree from Witwatersrand on the subject of the South African Black Consciousness Movement of the 1970s. He worked for some time in Namibia, but was expelled from the country in 1980 under the Undesirable Aliens Act. On returning to South Africa, he was first appointed by the South African Committee for Higher Education. Later, he was appointed at the University of the Witwatersrand, Khanya College, and in 1987, at the University of Cape Town, where he is now Professor of English. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Blood of Our Silence and Absent Tongues for which he has received several awards, including the Olive Schreiner Prize and the Thomas Pringle Award for Poetry.
Sources
"Kelwyn Sole." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 27 April 2022. Accessed 11 July 2022. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelwyn_Sole>.
Jobson, Liesl. "Kelwyn Sole." Poetry International. Accessed 11 July 2022. <https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poets/poet/102-16012_Sole>.
"Kelwyn Sole." The Poetry Archive. Accessed 11 July 2022. <https://poetryarchive.org/poet/kelwyn-sole/>.
