Biography
Kelwyn Sole was born in Johannesburg in 1951. He studied English at the University of Witwatersrand. He earned a master's degree from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies and a doctorate from Witwatersrand on the subject of the South African Black Consciousness Movement of the 1970s. He worked in Namibia but was expelled from the country in 1980 under the Undesirable Aliens Act. On returning to South Africa, he was appointed by the South African Committee for Higher Education. Later, he worked at the University of the Witwatersrand, Khanya College, and in 1987, at the University of Cape Town, where he serves as a professor of English. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Blood of Our Silence and Absent Tongues, for which he was awarded the Olive Schreiner Prize and the Thomas Pringle Award for Poetry.
