Diane Awerbuck’s first novel, Gardening at Night, was awarded the Commonwealth Best First Book Award (African region) in 2004 and was short-listed for the Dublin IMPAC Award in 2005. Awerbuck teaches Narrative and Aesthetics at the Cape Town branch of The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA). She oversees Content Development for Electric Book Works, a small publishing services company. Awerbuck also writes and edits material for educational publishers. She works as a freelance journalist and reviewer, mostly for the South African Sunday Times and Rapport, and writes a travel column (The Portable Pilgrim) on www.extrange.com . Awerbuck is currently at work on a co-operative novel (with Henrietta Rose-Innes, Mary Watson and Lauren Beukes ) titled Exquisite Corpse. Her short stories are published regularly in magazines and anthologies.
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