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Karin Schimke was born on 1968 in South Africa, is a journalist. Discover Karin Schimke's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?

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Occupation Writer and editor, poet, translator
Age 55 years old
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Born 1968
Birthday 1968
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Nationality South Africa

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Children Oliver Keohane, Julia Keohane

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2021

‘We are all petrified.’ An interview with Robert A. Hamblin. Daily Maverick June 2021

2019

In 2019, Schimke, together with Leon de Kock, won the 2019 Sol Plaatje Translation Award 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. She regularly translates the work of the well-known Afrikaans thriller writer Irma Venter.

2012

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

2008

Schimke edited Open (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, Chanette Paul, Dov Fedler and Bronwyn Davids

2006

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

2000

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

1968

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.

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.