Bronwyn Law-Viljoen

Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is a South African writer, editor, publisher and lecturer. She has a doctorate in Literature from New York University and a doctorate in Creative Writing from the University of the Witwatersrand, where she was Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Creative Writing for 12 years. She is now Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Adelaide University. She is co-founder and editor of Fourthwall Books and a former editor of Art South Africa magazine. She has published two novels, several short stories, and essays on art, literature and photography in journals, books and magazines.

Education Law-Viljoen has an MA degree (1994) from Rhodes University in South Africa, a PhD in Literature (2003) from New York University and a PhD in Creative Writing (2017) from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Career Author Law-Viljoen's first novel, The Printmaker, was published in 2016 (Umuzi/Penguin Random House). It was shortlisted for the premier fiction prize in South Africa, the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Award, and won the 2018 English Academy of South Africa Olive Schreiner Prize. It appeared in French in 2019 (Editions Zoé). She is currently associate professor in Creative Writing at Adelaide University, South Australia.

Editor Law-Viljoen was the editor of the arts magazine Art South Africa and editor-in-chief at David Krut Publishing in Johannesburg. the 2011 Antalis Paper Loves You Award for Fire Walker; the 2015 Jan Rabie Rapport Prize for Non-Fiction for Nagmusiek; the 2015 Kyknet Rapport Prize for Fiction for Nagmusiek; the 2016 Eugene Marais Prize for Nagmusiek; and the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award 2019 for Everyone is Present. Through Fourthwall Books, she has been involved in the editing and publishing of a number of authors' works, including Flute by William Kentridge, Light on a Hill with contributions by multiple architects, builders, and court judges that Law-Viljoen helped to compile, and Art and Justice on the history and conception of the constitutional court in South Africa.

She and Oliver Barstow opened an independent bookstore called Edition in Milpark, Johannesburg as an extension of their publishing company.