Rustum Kozain

Rustum Kozain
Poetry Reading
Rustum Kozain will read a selection of published and unpublished poetry.

Rustum Kozain was born in Paarl and studied English literature at UCT, where he also taught in the Department of English for a few years, offering courses in literature, film, popular culture studies, and creative writing. He has published two volumes of poetry, This Carting Life (2005) and Groundwork (2012), both of which garnered the Olive Schreiner Prize, as well as, respectively, the Ingrid Jonker Prize and the Herman Charles Bosman Award. His poetry has been published in translation in French, Indonesian, Italian and Spanish. He has compiled and written learning materials for two high school anthologies, South African Short Stories Since 1994 (2006) and Voices from All Over (poetry, 2007; new edition, 2015) for Oxford University Press SA. In 2013, he was contributing editor for Chimurenga’s Chronic. He works as a freelance copy editor and also writes the occasional book review and dabbles in prose fiction and journalism.