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Karin Schimke

Karin Schimke is a writer and editor. She is a winner of the prestigious Ingrid Jonker Prize.

Latest Work

Mind your language — Kaaps to debut at Columbia University in New York City this year

26 January 2024

Mind your language — Kaaps to debut at Columbia University in New York City this year

By Karin Schimke

4 min

1

Literature showcase — Berlin plays host to a hugely successful African Book Festival

TURNING THE PAGE

6 September 2023

Literature showcase — Berlin plays host to a hugely successful African Book Festival

By Karin Schimke

5 min

0

‘Crumbling’ education landscape prompts ‘Basic Education Rights Handbook’ update

25 October 2022

‘Crumbling’ education landscape prompts ‘Basic Education Rights Handbook’ update

By Karin Schimke

3 min

0

Saving African poetry from obscurity

MATTERS OF OBSESSION

29 August 2022

Saving African poetry from obscurity

By Karin Schimke

6 min

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Snowflake haters won’t like this book, but they might want to stop the name-calling and read it

8 August 2022

Snowflake haters won’t like this book, but they might want to stop the name-calling and read it

By Karin Schimke

5 min

2

Ingrid Jonker Prize winner Jacques Coetzee on political awakening, blindness, poetry and music

AN ILLUMINATED DARKNESS

24 July 2022

Ingrid Jonker Prize winner Jacques Coetzee on political awakening, blindness, poetry and music

By Karin Schimke

6 min

0

Legal storm brews in hate speech row over ‘transphobic’ article in SA Jewish Report

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE?

11 July 2022

Legal storm brews in hate speech row over ‘transphobic’ article in SA Jewish Report

By Karin Schimke

4 min

2

Young Capetonian shows how plugging into her own business switched off stereotypes

1 June 2022

Young Capetonian shows how plugging into her own business switched off stereotypes

By Karin Schimke

5 min

1

Touchy-feely: Emotion isn’t just in fashion — it may be the new path to success

17 May 2022

Touchy-feely: Emotion isn’t just in fashion — it may be the new path to success

By Karin Schimke

5 min

0

Standing up for the pangolin, the world’s most trafficked mammal

OUR BURNING PLANET 168

21 February 2021

Standing up for the pangolin, the world’s most trafficked mammal

By Karin Schimke

4 min

0

The garden in Cape Town where the possibility of individual and social change grows

21 December 2021

The garden in Cape Town where the possibility of individual and social change grows

By Karin Schimke

12 min

1

Long Street Baths: A quiet old lady, dressed in grey, who has provided solace for more than a century

SECRET SANCTUARY

15 December 2021

Long Street Baths: A quiet old lady, dressed in grey, who has provided solace for more than a century

By Karin Schimke

7 min

2