{{Short description|South African poet and academic}} thumb|Professor Baderoon speaks on her book, ''Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Post-Apartheid'' (Wits, 2014) (4 August 2014) {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Use South African English|date=May 2012}} '''Gabeba Baderoon''' (born 21 February 1969) is a South African poet and academic. She is the 2005 recipient of the Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry. She lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, and Pennsylvania, US, and serves as an assistant professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.<ref name="Penn State">{{cite web|title=Catching up with Gabeba Baderoon|url=http://www.rps.psu.edu/unplugged/fall09/baderoon.html|publisher=Research Penn State|accessdate=13 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304015327/http://www.rps.psu.edu/unplugged/fall09/baderoon.html|archive-date=4 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> She divides her life between Port Elizabeth and Pennsylvania.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
==Early life and education== Baderoon was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on 21 February 1969. In 1989 she received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cape Town in English and Psychology. In 1991 she was awarded a First-class Honours degree in English from the University of Cape Town BA Honours program. She attained her Master of Arts in English with Distinction at the University of Cape Town in Postmodernist Television (Media Studies) and in 2004 completed her doctoral studies in Media Studies at the University of Cape Town. That year, she was also a visiting scholar at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Her dissertation was titled "Oblique Figures: Representations of Islam in South African Media and Culture."
== Poetry collections == {| class="wikitable" |+ !'''Title''' !Year !Awards and commendations |- |''The Dream in the Next Body'' |2005 |Notable Book of 2005 by the ''Sunday Independent in South Africa''
''Sunday Times'' Recommended Book |- |''The Museum of Ordinary life<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gable |first=Eric |date=September 1996 |title=Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair:Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mua.1996.20.2.79 |journal=Museum Anthropology |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=79–81 |doi=10.1525/mua.1996.20.2.79 |issn=0892-8339|url-access=subscription }}</ref>'' |2005 | |- |''A Hundred Silences'' |2006 |2007 University of Johannesburg Prize (shortlisted)
2007 Olive Schreiner Award |- |''The Silence Before Speaking<ref name="Artist Site">{{cite web |title=Gabeba Baderoon |url=http://www.gabeba.com/ |accessdate=13 April 2012}}</ref>'' | | |- |''Cinnamon'' |2009 | |- |''The History of Intimacy'' |2018 | |}
==Awards== * 2005: Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}} * 2005: Guest Writer Fellowship at the Nordic Africa Institute{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}} * 2008: Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Italy{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}} * 2008: Writer's Residency at the University of Witwatersrand<ref name=Badilisha>{{cite web |title=Gabeba Baderoon |url=http://badilishapoetry.com/artists-profile/36/ |publisher=Badilisha Poetry Exchange |accessdate=13 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620005330/http://badilishapoetry.com/artists-profile/36/ |archivedate=20 June 2012 }}</ref> * 2019: Media24 Books Literary Prize: Elisabeth Eybers Prize for ''The History of Intimacy''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winners of 2019 Media24 Books Literary Prizes announced |url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/books/news/2019-06-13-winners-of-2019-media24-books-literary-prizes-announced/ |access-date=2020-06-19 |website=TimesLIVE |language=en-ZA}}</ref> * 2023: [https://eaclals2023.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/9 Sarah Baartman Senior Fellow] at the University of Cape Town
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120329151005/http://badilishapoetry.com/radio/gabebabaderoon/ Podcast from Badilisha Poetry X-Change] * [http://victordlamini.bookslive.co.za/blog/2007/09/27/podcast-a-conversation-with-poet-gabeba-baderoon/#more-73 Interview Podcast with Books Live] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218162636/http://victordlamini.bookslive.co.za/blog/2007/09/27/podcast-a-conversation-with-poet-gabeba-baderoon/#more-73 |date=18 February 2020 }} * [http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/city-inspiration-for-poet-1-439347# Interview with the ''Sheffield Telegraph''.] * [http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page295023?oid=223837&sn=2009+Detail Interview with Money Web] {{Authority control}}
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