Barbara Adair

Barbara Adair is a South African writer.[1] Her 2004 novel, In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Award and the novel END was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize.[2] Based in Johannesburg, she also lectures on human rights law.[3]

Novels published: In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot, Jacana, 2005, a fictional account of the lives of Paul Bowles and Jane Bowles in Tangier. (Short listed for the Sunday Times Fiction award, 2005. The subject of a conference paper: Urban Generations in Morocco, 2007, Cheryl Stobie: Somatics, Space, Surprise: Creative Dissonance over Time, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.) END, Jacana, 2009, a pastiche based on the movie Casablanca set in Johannesburg and Maputo. (Short listed for the African Regional Commonwealth Prize, 2010. The subject of a PhD dissertation: Beppi Chiuppani, Beyond Political engagement? Redefining the Literary in post dictatorship Brazil and post-apartheid South Africa, University of Chicago, 2013.) Newspaper and magazine articles in: Sunday Independent (South Africa), Sunday Times (South Africa), Weekender (South Africa), Horizon (British Airways), Selamtra (Ethiopian Airways) Books Reviews in: Sensitive Skin Magazine, (NYC) Short Stories in: New Contrast Literary Journal (South Africa), From the Great Wall to the Grand Canyon (US publication), Queer Africa – New and Collected Fiction: A collection of Southern African short stories. (Winner of the LAMDA (USA) prize for collected stories.) Collaborations: The telling of personal stories with the director, Murray Nossel, of Narativ Inc. (USA)

Selected works

  • 2004, In Tangier we killed the blue parrot
  • 2007, End

References

  1. ↑ "L'AFRIQUE ECRITE AU FEMININ". University of Western Australia. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  2. ↑ Martin & Xaba 2013, p. 205.
  3. ↑ Chapman 2009, p. 171.

Bibliography

  • Chapman, Michael (26 March 2009). Postcolonialism: South/African Perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-0925-2.
  • Martin, Karen; Xaba, Makhosazana (May 2013). Queer Africa. New and Collected Fiction. African Books Collective. ISBN 978-1-920590-33-8.


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