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Jenefer Shute
was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has a Ph.D in literature from
the University of California and is currently a professor in the English
Department of Hunter College, New York, where she teaches in the MFA
Program in Creative Writing. She has also taught, most recently, at the
University of Paris and the University of Cape Town.
Shute is the author of the novels
Life-Size (Houghton Mifflin, 1992), Sex Crimes (Doubleday,
1996), Free Fall (Random House UK, 2002), and User ID
(Houghton Mifflin, 2005), as well as numerous essays and articles in
publications such as Harpers, the Nation, salon.com,
the London Guardian, Tikkun, the Boston Review, and
Modern Fiction Studies.
Life-Size, the story of a young woman
who refuses to eat, was named one of the “Top Twenty” titles at London’s
Feminist Book Festival in 1993, and has been extensively anthologized.
Sex Crimes, the story of a sexual obsession that escalates into
violence, has been optioned for a feature film, as has User ID (by
director/producer Susan Seidelman). Shute’s fiction has been translated
into eight languages.
Recent shorter pieces include “Instructions
for Surviving the Unprecedented,” which appears in 110 Stories: New
York Writes After September 11 (NYU Press, 2002), and “The Annotated
Guide,” in A City Imagined: Cape Town and the Meanings of a Place
(Penguin, 2006).
Shute is the recipient of
a 2001 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction
Literature. She has also received residency awards from the Fondazione
Bogliasco (Italy), the Tyrone Guthrie Center (Ireland), the Ledig-Rowohlt
Foundation (Switzerland), the Julia and David White Artists' Colony (Costa
Rica), and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (USA, 2005).
Her critical essays on Nabokov appear in,
among others, The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov (Garland,
1995), and Lolita: A Casebook (Oxford University Press, 2002).
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Irvine J Eidelman was born in
the town of Florida on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa. He
holds Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees from the
University of Cape Town, and a Master of Medicine (Psychiatry) degree
from the University of Stellenbosch. Eidelman has worked for multinational
pharmaceutical companies both in South Africa and abroad as Medical
Director and Director of Clinical Research. He has also held office on
the executive of various national societies of psychiatry in South Africa.
Dr. Eidelman now lives in Cape Town South Africa where he is in full time
private psychiatric practice.
Eidelman's interest in photography and
wildlife conservation began early in his life. He is a frequent visitor
to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park (The Peace Park) which lies
in the remote northern regions of South Africa. It was after attending a
course in Creative Writing that his talents in writing and photography grew
from ideas into publications, and Eidelman published his first collection
of photographs,
Cape To Kalahari, in 2006.
Dr Irvine Eidelman has a keen
interest in World War 2 and is currently at work on his first novel, based
on actual incidents in and around DDay 6th June 1944.
Assisting people to reach their creative
sides has spurred him on to develop capewrite.com in collaboration with
author and teacher Jenefer Shute. He brings his unique insight as a
psychiatrist, photographer, and aspiring novelist to his position as
Director of Operations of capewrite.com
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