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Christopher Michael Zithulele Mann[1][2](1948 – 10 March 2021) was a South African poet.[1]

Christopher Michael Mann
Born6 April 1948
Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
Died10 March 2021
Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
NationalitySouth African citizenship
Alma materUniversity of the Witwatersrand

School of Oriental and African Studies

Oxford University
Notable worksSouth Africans
Notable awardsNewdigate prize Olive Shreiner Prize
RelativesAndrew Skeen (Rhodesia) (father in law)

Biography


Chris Mann was born in Port Elizabeth in 1948 and went to Diocesan College (Bishops) in Rondebosch, Cape Town. He studied English and Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, and went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar where he was awarded an MA in English Language and Literature. He also studied African Oral Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.[3] From 1977 to 1980 he held a lecturer post in the English Department at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. From 1980 to 1995 he worked with an NGO, The Valley Trust[4] at KwaNyuswa outside Durban, after which he returned to Rhodes University where he was a professor of poetry with the Institute for the Study of English in Africa.[5] He was founder and convenor of Wordfest, a national multilingual festival of South African languages and literature with a developmental emphasis.[3][6][7] A native English speaker, Mann was also conversant in Afrikaans, isiZulu and isiXhosa. He performed his work at festivals, schools, churches, universities and conferences in South Africa.[3] He was married to artist Julia Skeen.[5]


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Citations


  1. Eve 2003, pp. 135–136.
  2. Ngidi, Sandile. "An ode to Chris Mann". Citypress. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  3. Jobson, Liesl. "Chris Mann". Poetry International Rotterdam. Poetry International. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  4. Anon (1989). Annual Report of the Valley Trust. Valley Trust.
  5. Eve 2003, p. 135.
  6. "Wordfest- Rhodes University". Rhodes University. Rhodes University. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  7. Eve 2003, p. 136.
  8. Greybe 2014.
  9. Sassen 2014.
  10. Rickard 2014.
  11. LindsayC. "Points of Illumination: Wordfest South Africa This Year and Next". PEN South Africa. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  12. Brown 2011, pp. 64–72.
  13. Brown 2007, pp. 134–137.
  14. Johnson 1996, pp. 75–102.
  15. Gardner 1995, pp. 99–107.
  16. Foley 1991, pp. 15–29.
  17. Butler 1985, pp. 163–176.
  18. Meihuizen 2007, pp. 133–140.
  19. Gagiano 2009, pp. 95–98.
  20. Levey 2010, pp. 55–69.
  21. Anon 2014, p. 19.
  22. Grocotts 2014.

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