# Gabeba Baderoon
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{{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)
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'''Gabeba Baderoon''' (born 21 February 1969) is a South African poet and academic. She is the 2005 recipient of the [Daimler Chrysler Award](/source/Daimler_Chrysler_Award) for South African Poetry. She lives and works in [Cape Town](/source/Cape_Town), [South Africa](/source/South_Africa), and [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania), US, and serves as an assistant professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies and Comparative Literature at [Pennsylvania State University](/source/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}}] 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](/source/Port_Elizabeth%2C_South_Africa), on 21 February 1969. In 1989 she received her [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) from the [University of Cape Town](/source/University_of_Cape_Town) in English and Psychology. In 1991 she was awarded a First-class [Honours degree](/source/Honours_degree) in English from the [University of Cape Town](/source/University_of_Cape_Town) BA Honours program. She attained her [Master of Arts](/source/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](/source/Media_Studies) at the University of Cape Town. That year, she was also a visiting scholar at the [University of Sheffield](/source/University_of_Sheffield) in the United Kingdom. Her dissertation was titled "Oblique Figures: Representations of Islam in South African Media and Culture."
== Poetry collections ==
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!'''Title'''
!Year
!Awards and commendations
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|''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[{{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 }}]''
|2005
|
|-
|''A Hundred Silences''
|2006
|2007 University of Johannesburg Prize (shortlisted)
2007 Olive Schreiner Award
|-
|''The Silence Before Speaking[{{cite web |title=Gabeba Baderoon |url=http://www.gabeba.com/ |accessdate=13 April 2012}}]''
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|-
|''Cinnamon''
|2009
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|-
|''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[{{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 }}]
* 2019: [Media24 Books Literary Prize: Elisabeth Eybers Prize](/source/Media24_Books_Literary_Awards) for ''The History of Intimacy''[{{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}}]
* 2023: [https://eaclals2023.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/9 Sarah Baartman Senior Fellow] at the University of Cape Town
== References ==
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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]
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