Gabeba Baderoon was born in Port Elizabeth and lived a few streets from our house. The family moved to Cape Town where she spent most of her teenage years. She lives in Pennsylvania, USA. Gabeba is the author of the poetry collections The Dream in the Next Body (2005), The Museum of Ordinary Life (2005), and A hundred silences (2006). The Silence Before Speaking, a volume of her poetry translated into Swedish, is forthcoming from Tranan publishers. The Dream in the Next Body was named a Notable Book of 2005 by the Sunday Independent in South Africa and was a Sunday Times Recommended Book. A hundred silences was short-listed for the 2007 University of Johannesburg Prize, and was a finalist for the 2007 Olive Schreiner Award. In 2005, Gabeba received the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Poetry her work is infused with compassion and wisdom that bodes well for her future writings.
I had the honour of meeting her during the Exclusive Books/Metro FM Homebru Roadshow in South Africa. I interviewed her (Die Burger newspaper) in 2006. You can read the interview on Gabeba Baderoon’s website: www.gabeba.com
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