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Tjawangwa Dema


Born
Botswana
Genre
Poetry


Tjawangwa Dema / TJ Dema is a Botswana-based poet, arts administrator and teaching artist.

Her chapbook Mandible (Slapering Hol Press, 2014) was selected for publication by The African Poetry Book Fund as part of its inaugural New-Generation African Poets Box Set. Her first full-length book The Careless Seamstress (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) won the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and was a Brittle Paper Top 15 Debut Book of 2019. A collection of her selected poems were published in German as Meuterin (Parasitenpress) in 2022. Her collection an/other pastoral (No Bindings, 2022) with illustrations and an accompanying digital archive was a Finalist for the 2022 Luschei Prize and the 2022 African Studies Association Aidoo ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 73 ratings · 13 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
The Careless Seamstress (Af...
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