About Maxine Case
Born 1974. Maxine Case is a South African novelist, writer, deputy editor and honorary fellow.
Maxine Case (born January 17, 1976, in Cape Town) is a South African novelist, and short story writer. Her debut novel, All We Have Left Unsaid, (Kwela Books, 2006) won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region and was the joint winner of the Herman Charles Bosman Prize 2007.
She was a 2009 International Writing Program fellow at the University of Iowa and a writer in residence at the City of Asylum/Pittsburgh from November 2009 to February 2010.
Works All We Have Left Unsaid, Kwela Books, 2006, J. M. Coetzee (ed.) "Homing Pigeons", African Compass: New Writing from Southern Africa, New Africa Books, 2005, Waarover we zwegen, Mistral Uitgevers, 2009,
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Who is Maxine Case?
South African novelist, and short story writer
When was Maxine Case born?
Maxine Case was born on 17 January 1974 in Cape Town.
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Maxine Case is a novelist, writer, deputy editor and honorary fellow.
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Maxine Case is South African.
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