Name Patricia Schonstein | Role Writer | |
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Books The Apothecary's Daughter, A Quilt of Dreams, Skyline, A Time of Angels: A Novel, Banquet at Brabazan | ||
Patricia Schonstein, who has also written under the name Patricia Schonstein Pinnock (born 1952) is a South African children's writer, poet and novelist.
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Life
Born and raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Schonstein lives in South Africa. She was schooled in a convent for six years from the age of nine. Later she lived in Grahamstown, where – observing the constant raids on homes in the black townships below, and realising the lack of black characters in children's books – she resolved to write her own stories, poems and songs for children. After gaining a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Cape Town, supervised by J. M. Coetzee, she became a full-time author. Her debut novel, Skyline, was shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times award for literature in 2001, was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, won the Percy FitzPatrick Award in 2002 and won the French Prix du Marais.