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Joan Hambidge is a South African academic, poet, writer, and critic. She is a professor of Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the University of Stellenbosch. She is the author of several books, including the poetry collections Diep in die Berg (Deep in the Mountain) and Diep in die Berg 2 (Deep in the Mountain 2). She has also written several critical works, including a study of the Afrikaans poet N.P. van Wyk Louw. Hambidge has received numerous awards for her work, including the South African Academy of Science and Arts' Hertzog Prize for Poetry in 2000, the South African Literary Award for Poetry in 2003, and the South African Literary Award for Criticism in 2006. She was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Stellenbosch in 2008. Hambidge is married to the South African poet and playwright Antjie Krog. They have two children.

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Occupation Academic, poet, writer, critic
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 11 September, 1956
Birthday 11 September
Birthplace Aliwal North, South Africa
Nationality South Africa

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2016

Although she writes in Afrikaans, Hambidge has translated some of her poetry into English. Other translations have been done by Jo Nel, fellow poet and close friend Johann de Lange, and Charl JF Cilliers. Her work has been published in the Netherlands and the UK as well as in the US. Having published 26 volumes of poetry up to 2016 she is the most prolific poet in Afrikaans.

1998

Hambidge's interest in literary theory (especially psychoanalysis and metafiction) is reflected in her writing, especially in her fiction. She works with the difference between theory and practice in her novels, Judaskus ("Judas kiss", 1998) and "Kladboek" (2008). She has also published two theoretical works: Postmodernisme (1995), about Roland Barthes, deconstruction and post-modernism, and "Psigoanalise en lees" ("Psychoanalysis and reading", 1991), on Jacques Lacan and reading.

1986

She was awarded the Eugène Marais Prize for literature for her second volume of poetry, Bitterlemoene ("Bitter Oranges"), in 1986. This prize is one of the most coveted literary prizes in South Africa. She also won the Litera Prize as well as the Poetry Institute of Africa Prize for her poetry.

1985

Hambidge studied at the University of Stellenbosch and the University of Pretoria. She was admitted to a doctorate under André P. Brink at Rhodes University in 1985. A second doctorate followed (University of Cape Town,2001).

1956

Joan Helene Hambidge (born 11 September 1956 in Aliwal North, South Africa) (the English surname notwithstanding), is an Afrikaans poet, literary theorist and academic. She is a prolific poet in Afrikaans, controversial as a public figure and critic and notorious for her out-of-the-closet style of writing. Her theoretic contributions deal mainly with Roland Barthes, deconstruction, postmodernism, psychoanalysis and metaphysics.

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