Kelwyn Sole was born in Johannesburg in 1951, and was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has lived and worked in Johannesburg, Kanye (Botswana) and Windhoek (Namibia), and is at present a professor in the English Department of the University of Cape Town. His critical articles – mainly on South African and postcolonial cultural and literary issues – have been published in a variety of academic journals and books, both locally and internationally. Sole has published the following poetry collections: The Blood of Our Silence (Johannesburg, Ravan, 1988); Projections in the Past Tense (Johannesburg, Ravan, 1992); Love That is Night (Durban, Gecko, 1998); Mirror and Water Gazing (Pietermaritzburg, Gecko/University of Natal Press, 2001); Land Dreaming: Prose Poems (Pietermaritzburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006 forthcoming). His poetry and critical work have won both South African and international prizes.

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