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| Irene Aarons (Pen-name: Irene Emanuel) |
Born: 07-11-1943, in Johannesburg. Lived in Durban, now lives in Port Elizabeth.
Winner of the “Hilde Slinger” cup for poetry in 2009 and again in 2013, winner of the “Fay Goldie” cup for General Success in the World of Publishing in 2011. These awards were presented by the South African Writers” Circle.
In 2008, Nine of my poems were published in “Signatures” an anthology of Women's poetry. I represented "Live Poets' Society in "Poetry Africa" in 2008. In 2006, "A Scorpion Sings" first anthology published. Other anthologies published between 2006 and 2015 are "Count Catula of Shadoland & Friends", " A Peace of Me" and "A Scorpion Sings Again."
I have also been published in other notable journals, such as:
1) Agenda Issue on Gender based violence
2) Poems for Haiti Edited by Amitabh Mitra
3) Unbreaking the Rainbow---voices of protest from new South Africa edited by A. Mitra
4) New Contrast South African Literary Journal
5) Fidelities Contemporary South African poetry
6) Speech and Drama Association of South Africa Suggested poems for schools.
