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name: Karina Magdalena Szczurek
about: Born in Jelenia Góra, Poland, Karina lived in Austria, the United States, and Wales, before finding a home in South Africa. Her doctoral thesis was published as Truer than Fiction: Nadine Gordimer Writing Post-Apartheid South Africa (2008). She is the editor of Touch: Stories of Contact (2009), Encounters with André Brink (2010), Contrary: Critical Responses to the Novels of André Brink (with Willie Burger, 2013), Water: New Short Fiction from Africa (with Nick Mulgrew, 2015), and Misplaced: New Short Fiction from African Kids (with Catherine Shepherd, 2017). She is the author of the novel Invisible Others (2014) and the memoir The Fifth Mrs Brink (2017). Her play for young adults, A Change of Mind, won the MML Literature Award in the Categ Born in Jelenia Góra, Poland, Karina lived in Austria, the United States, and Wales, before finding a home in South Africa. Her doctoral thesis was published as Truer than Fiction: Nadine Gordimer Writing Post-Apartheid South Africa (2008). She is the editor of Touch: Stories of Contact (2009), Encounters with André Brink (2010), Contrary: Critical Responses to the Novels of André Brink (with Willie Burger, 2013), Water: New Short Fiction from Africa (with Nick Mulgrew, 2015), and Misplaced: New Short Fiction from African Kids (with Catherine Shepherd, 2017). She is the author of the novel Invisible Others (2014) and the memoir The Fifth Mrs Brink (2017). Her play for young adults, A Change of Mind, won the MML Literature Award in the Category English Drama in 2012. She lives in Cape Town with three her cats, Glinka, Salieri and Mozart. ...more