# Diane Awerbuck

Diane Awerbuck (born 1 April 1974) is a South African novelist. Her most notable novel, Gardening at Night, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book (Africa and the Caribbean), and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2011, her collection of short stories, Cabin Fever, was published by Random House Struik. Her novel, Home Remedies, was published by Random House Struik in August 2012. She was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2014, and won the Short Story Day Africa competition the same year.
She taught at Rustenburg Girls' High School until 2002. 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. Her non-fiction has appeared in the Mail & Guardian. She reviews fiction for the South African Sunday Times.
Her essays and short stories are published regularly and her work has been translated into German, Swedish, Mandarin and Russian. Her doctorate is in trauma narratives: The Spirit and the Letter: Trauma, Warblogs and the Public Sphere.
Awerbuck also writes as "Frank Owen", a joint pseudonym used when collaborating with co-writer Alex Latimer. Their cowboy-apocalypse novel project South was published in 2016, with a second volume North following in 2018.

## Works
### Novels

* Gardening at night, Secker & Warburg, 2003, ISBN 978-0-436-20610-8
* 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-Eater and Other Stories, Umuzi Cape Town, 2013, E-Pub 978-1-4152-0568-6

### Interviews

* Aerodrome Interview with Jennifer Malec, Jennifer Malec, (2013).

### Other

    Poem in Anthology, African Sun
    Terra Incognita: African Speculative Fiction
    Twenty in 20: The Best Short Stories of South Africa's 20 Years of Democracy
    Ons Klyntji: OK20 The Odyssey
    The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories
    Sweet Water
    Mami Wata
    The Sea
    Three Poems in Anthology
    Atlantis and Colposcopy
    The Ghost-Eater and Other Stories
    Ons Klyntji: Bewilderbeast
    Interview with Jennifer Malec
    Duiweltjie – The Root Cellar and Other Stories
    Short Story for Short Story Day Africa 2013
    Big Issue : Collector's Edition 2
    Stick Man
    Short story in Anthology
    Short story in Anthology
    Radio Broadcast on 'Tales to Terrify', USA
    Short Story
    Home Remedies
    Über(w)unden: Art in Troubled Times
    Short Story Day Africa Short Story excerpt
    Cabin Fever
    Heavenly shades of nights are falling, Short story in literary magazine, 'Ons Klyntji'
    School photos
    Short story in Anthology, Elf
    2009 Conference: African mythology: Mami Wata The Book Lounge, Cape Town
    2008 Kommst du mit?
    Entanglement
    The way you look tonight
    Muddy Waters, Whisky Blues
    Greenland
    Der Junge, der Turen offnete
    En stereo i Soweto
    The boy who opened doors
    Gardening at Night
    The Dirty Knees of the Mother of GodShort Story, Commonwealth Writers
    Everybody Hurts
    Gardening at Night
    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