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The Unit for Creative Writing
The Unit for Creative Writing has had rewarding results: there is great interest in this
field of study, with a number of prominent writers enrolling for master’s and doctoral degrees. Two of them – Dr Fiona Zerbst, an acclaimed poet, and Dr Terry Westby-Nunn, an award-winning novelist – received their PhDs in Creative Writing at recent UP graduation ceremonies.The current enrolment includes such literary luminaries as the playwrights Mike van Graan and Ashraf Johaardien and the novelists Fred Khumalo and Barbara Adair. In addition, Niq Mhlongo, an award-winning novelist and short story writer, was appointed a Mellon writer-in-residence at the University of Pretoria for the second semester of 2019.
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