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{{Infobox writer
|name          = Diane Awerbuck
|image         = Diane Awerbuck by Justin Youens.jpg
|caption       = Diane Awerbuck by Justin Youens
|genre         = [[Fiction]]
|notable_works = Gardening at Night won the 2004 [[Commonwealth Writers' Prize]], best first book ([[Africa]] and the [[Caribbean]]), and was shortlisted for the [[International Dublin IMPAC Award]].
|birth_date    = 1 April 1974
|birth_place   = [[Kimberley]],  [[South Africa]]
|occupation    = [[Novelist]]
|influences    =
|influenced    =
}}

'''Diane Awerbuck''' is a [[South African]] [[novelist]]. Her [[novel]], ''Gardening at Night'', won the 2004 [[Commonwealth Writers' Prize]], best first book (Africa and the Caribbean), and was shortlisted for the International Dublin [[IMPAC Award]]. In 2011, her collection of short stories, ''Cabin Fever'', was published by [[Random House Struik]].<ref>[http://www.randomstruik.co.za/about-the-author.php?authorID=5668 Randomstruik.co.za]</ref> Her novel, ''Home Remedies'', was published by Random House Struik in August 2012.<ref>[http://www.randomstruik.co.za/title-page.php?titleID=4747&imprintID=0 Randomstruik.co.za]</ref> She was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2014.

She taught at [[Rustenburg Girls' High School]] until 2002.<ref>[http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/authors/3290/diane-awerbuck/ Vintage-books.co.uk]</ref> Before this, she worked as a teacher of History at Cedar House; and of Narrative and Aesthetics at AFDA, the film school, both in Cape Town.<ref>[http://www.somethingwicked.co.za/2011/09/feature-interview-diane-awerbuck/ Interview with Diane Awerbuck]</ref>
Her non-fiction has appeared in the ''Mail & Guardian''.<ref>[http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/dianeawerbuck Thoughtleader.co.za]</ref>  She reviews fiction for the South African [http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/ Sunday Times].

Her [[essays]] and [[short stories]] are published regularly and her work has been translated into German, Swedish, Mandarin and Russian.<ref>[http://shortstorydayafrica.org/authors/a-d/983-2/ Short Story Day Africa]</ref> Her doctorate, ''The Spirit and the Letter: Trauma, Warblogs and the Public Sphere'', is in production.

==Works==

===Novels===
*''Gardening at night'', Secker & Warburg, 2003, ISBN 978-0-436-20610-2
*''Home Remedies'', Umuzi / Random House Struik, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4152-0144-2

===Short Stories===
*''Cabin Fever'', Umuzi / Random House Struik, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4152-0111-4

===As Editor===

*''Commissioning Editor of Anthology, 'The Ghost-Easter and Other Stories', ''Umuzi Cape Town, 2013, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ABookSources&isbn=9781415205686 E-Pub 978-1-4152-0568-6]''

===Interviews===
* ''Aerodrome Interview with Jennifer Malec'', Jennifer Malec, (2013).<ref>{{cite web|last1=Malec|first1=Jennifer|title=Aerodrome video with Diane Awerbuck|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJunU-vB4y4|website=YouTube|publisher=Aerodrome|accessdate=19 September 2014}}</ref>

===Other===

:''Poem in Anthology, African Sun'' <ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|first1=Diane|title=Poem in Anthology|date=Forthcoming }}</ref>
:''Terra Incognita : African Speculative Fiction''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|first1=Diane|title=Terra Incognita : African Speculative Fiction|date=Fortcoming}}</ref>
:''Twenty in 20 : The Best Short Stories of South Africa's 20 Years of Democracy''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|first1=Diane|title=Short Story in Anthology|date=2014|publisher=Avusa Media / Sunday Times|location=Cape Town|isbn=9781928216421}}</ref>
:''Ons Klyntji:OK20 The Odyssey''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|first1=Diane|title=Ons Klyntji:OK20 The Odyssey|date=August 2014}}</ref>
:''The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|first1=Diane|title=The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories|date=2014|publisher=Phosphorescence|isbn=978-1-78026-174-4}}</ref>
:''Sweet Water''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck and Latimer|title=Sweet Water|date=2014|publisher=Fundza|url=http://live.fundza.mobi/home/library/fiction-short-stories/sweet-water/chapter-1/}}</ref>
:''Mami Wata''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Mami Wata|date=2014|url=http://talestoterrify.com}}</ref>
:''The Sea''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=My Name is Legion|date=2013|publisher=Dark Continents|isbn=9780692249512}}</ref>
:''Three Poems in Anthology''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Three poems in Anthology - The Sol Plaatjie/European Union Poetry Anthology, Volume 3|date=2013|publisher=Jacana|isbn=9781431409853|page=Atlantis and Colposcopy, Saint Francis saw the scissors, Washing Lines II}}</ref>
:''Atlantis and Colposcopy''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Washing Lines II|date=2013|url=http://aerodrome.co.za/tag/diane-awerbuck}}</ref>
:''The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=The Ghost-Easter and Other Stories|date=2013|publisher=Umuzi|isbn=9781415205686}}</ref>
:''Ons Klyntji:Bewilderbeast''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Ons Klyntji:Bewilderbeast|date=2013|publisher=Toast Coetzer}}</ref>
:''Interview with Jennifer Malec''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Awerbuck|title=Interview with Jennifer Malec|url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=FJunU-vB4y4}}</ref>
:''Duiweltjie - The Root Cellar and Other Stories''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Duiweltjie - The Root Cellar and Other Stories|date=2013|publisher=Umuzi|isbn=9781920532314}}</ref>
:''Short Story for Short Story Day Africa 2013''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Awerbuck|title=Short Story for Short Story Day Africa|website=shortstorydayafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/DianeAwerbuck.pdf|accessdate=2013}}</ref>
:''Big Issue : Collector's Edition 2''<ref>{{cite news|last1=Awerbuck|title=Big Issue : Collector's Edition 2|work=Colomn}}</ref>
:''Stick Man''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Stick Man|date=2012|publisher=High Life}}</ref>
:''Short story in Anthology''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=English for Success, Grade 8|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Cape Town|isbn=9780199050697}}</ref>
:''Short story in Anthology''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=English for Success, Grade 9|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Cape Town|isbn=9780199048182}}</ref>
:''Radio Broadcast on 'Tales to Terrify', USA''
:''Short Story''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Reunion|date=2012|publisher=Visi}}</ref>
:''Home Remedies''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Home Remedies|date=2012|publisher=Umuzi Books|location=Cape Town|isbn=9781415201442}}</ref>
:''Über(w)unden : Art in Troubled Times''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Uber(w)unden : Art in Troubled Times|date=2012|publisher=Jacana|location=Cape Town|isbn=9781431404971}}</ref>
:''Short Story Day Africa'' Short Story excerpt
:''Cabin Fever''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Short Story Collection|date=2011|publisher=Umuzi Books|location=Cape Town|isbn=9781415201114}}</ref>
:''Heavenly shades of nights are falling'' Short story on literary magazine, 'Ons Klyntji'
:''School photos''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Awerbuck|title=School Photos|url=http://www.itch.co.za/?article=511|website=Itch}}</ref>
:''Short story in Anthology, Elf''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Der Huter|date=2010|publisher=Wuppertal|isbn=9783779502838}}</ref>
:''2009 Conference : African mythology: Mami Wata'' The Book Lounge, Cape Town''
:''2008 Kommst du mit?''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Kommst du mit?|date=2008|publisher=UCT Press|location=Cape Town|pages=17–20}}</ref>
:''Entanglement''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Awerbuck|title=Entanglement|url=http://www.somethingwicked.co.za/writers/diane2.htm}}</ref>
:''The way you look tonight''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=The way you look tonight|date=2007|publisher=Umuzi|location=Cape Town|isbn=9781415200353|page=91|edition=Mother City Queer Project}}</ref>
:''Muddy Waters, Whisky Blues''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Nice Times : A book of South African Pleasures and Delights|date=2006|publisher=Double Storey|location=Cape Town|isbn=9781770130128|pages=64–65}}</ref>
:''Greenland''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Greenland - Design Indaba|date=2006|publisher=Interactive Africa|location=Cape Town|page=51}}</ref>
:''Der Junge, der Turen offnete''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Yizo Yizo - Der Junge der Turen offnete|date=2005|publisher=Wuppertal|isbn=377950040X}}</ref>
:''En stereo i Soweto''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Strumpebandssnoken|date=2005|publisher=Bokforlaget Tranan, Stockholm|isbn=9185133175|pages=223–233}}</ref>
:''The boy who opened doors''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=180 Degrees : New fiction by South African women writers|date=2005|publisher=Oshun Books|location=Cape Town|isbn=1770070427|pages=17–24}}</ref>
:''Gardening at Night''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Gardening at Night|date=2004|publisher=Vintage|location=London|isbn=0099287358}}</ref>
:''The Dirty Knees of the Mother of God''Short Story, Commonwealth Writers
:''Everybody Hurts''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Laugh it Off : South African Youth Culture|date=2003|publisher=Juta and Company|isbn=9781919930442}}</ref>
:''Gardening at Night''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Awerbuck|title=Gardening at Night|date=2003|publisher=Secker and Warburg|location=London|isbn=0436206102}}</ref>
:''The Portable Pilgrim'' Online Column, 2003 - 2008 - www.extrange.com

==Magazine Contributions==
* Leadership
* Glamour
* House and Garden
* Design Indaba
* Real simple
* O Magazine
* Ons Klyntji

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*[http://www.globalbuzz-sa.com/forums/showthread.php?t=484 Interview with Diane Awerbuck], 
*[http://ebw.co/ Electric Book Works]

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[[Category:1974 births]]