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Writer
Ceridwen Dovey
Famoose for
Writing Blood Kin and the imaginative stories of Only the Animals.
Blood Kin · Only the Animals
- Born
- 1980
- Birthplace
- Pietermaritzburg
More people
Ceridwen Dovey
Ceridwen Dovey is a South African-Australian writer and anthropologist working across fiction and nonfiction.
Early life
Two countries
Grew up between South Africa and Australia.
Harvard
Completed anthropology and visual studies in 2003.
Career
- 2003
Documentary
Made Aftertaste about wine-farm labour.
- 2007
First novel
Published Blood Kin after creative-writing study in Cape Town.
- 2010
Sydney
Returned to Australia.
Selected work
Blood Kin
Her debut novel.
Only the Animals
A short-story collection.
Only the Astronauts
A later story collection.
Beyond work
Research
Worked at the Institute for Sustainable Futures from 2010 to 2015.
Sources & photo credit
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