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name: Bridget Pitt
about: Bridget Pitt is a South African author of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction and four novels. She has a love of story-telling, of the natural world, and support all efforts to seek more just and joyous ways of living with each other and with other forms of life. She began her writing career with an anti-apartheid newspaper in Cape Town in the 1980's. She has co-authored the memoir of Sicelo Mbatha, a spiritual wilderness guide, and has written on community centered approaches to nature conservation. Her latest novel, Eye Brother Horn, explores the social and ecological impacts of colonialism in South Africa. Her work has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth book Prize and short story prize, the Wole Soyinka African Literature Award, the Tu Bridget Pitt is a South African author of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction and four novels. She has a love of story-telling, of the natural world, and support all efforts to seek more just and joyous ways of living with each other and with other forms of life. She began her writing career with an anti-apartheid newspaper in Cape Town in the 1980's. She has co-authored the memoir of Sicelo Mbatha, a spiritual wilderness guide, and has written on community centered approaches to nature conservation. Her latest novel, Eye Brother Horn, explores the social and ecological impacts of colonialism in South Africa. Her work has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth book Prize and short story prize, the Wole Soyinka African Literature Award, the Tuscarora Award for Historical Fiction, and the Siskiyou Prize for Environmental Writing, among others. ...more