Leon de  Kock

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Leon de Kock


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Mayfair, Johannesburg, South Africa
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De Kock, Leon (b. 1956) Poet, critic, translator. Born in Mayfair, Johannesburg, he studied at the Rand Afrikaans University and the University of Leeds. After working as a journalist for several years, he joined the English Department of the University of South Africa, where he was professor until 2006. He is now head of the School of Literature and Language Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. Author of Civilising Barbarians: Missionary Narrative and African Textual Response in Nineteenth-Century South Africa (1996), he compiled (with Ian Tromp) the anthology The Heart in Exile: South African Poetry in English, 1990–1995 (1996) and was founding editor of the English-studies journal Scrutiny2. His first
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Triomf

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In Love's Place

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The Heart In Exile: South A...

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Bad Sex

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Identities: South African S...

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Bodyhood

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Gone to the Edges

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Bloodsong: Poems

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