Yvette Christiansë is a South African-born poet, novelist, and scholar. She is the author of two books of poetry: Imprendehora, a finalist for the Via Afrika Herman Charles Bosman Prize in 2010, and Castaway, a finalist in the 2001 PEN International Poetry Prize. Her novel Unconfessed was a finalist for the PEN/ Hemingway Award for First Fiction and received a 2007 ForeWord Magazine BEA Award; it was shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2005 and nominated for the Ama Ata Aidoo Prize 2010. Christiansë is a recipient of the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry (Australia). She is a professor of English and Africana Studies at Barnard College in New York.

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