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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985
Mann, Chris 'Christopher Michael Zithulele'
Biography
South Africa
Birth date: 1948-04-06
Birth location:
Port Elizabeth,
South Africa
Death date: 2021-01-01
Born in 1948, Chris Mann is a South African poet. He is a poetry lecturer at the Institute for the Study of English in Africa. He is the founder and convenor of Wordfest, a national multilingual festival of South African languages and literature with a developmental emphasis.
Education
- University of the Witwatersrand
- Oxford University
- University of London
- Diocesan College
News Items (3)
Events (1)
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- New Shades (1982) (Work Author)
- Kites and Other Poems (1992) (Poet)
- Kites and Other Poems (1992) (Work Author)
- Mann Alive! (1992) (Poet)
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- South Africans: a set of portrait-poems (1996) (Poet)
- South Africans: a set of portrait-poems (1996) (Work Author)
- Heartlands (2002) (Poet)
- Heartlands (2002) (Work Author)
- Rudiments of Grace (2014) (Poet)
- Rudiments of Grace (2014) (Work Author)
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