Background
Kabelo Duiker was born on April 13, 1974, in Orlando, Soweto, South Africa.
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Kabelo Duiker studied at La Salle College, Roodepoort, South Africa.
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Kabelo Duiker studied at Redhill School, Sandton, South Africa.
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Duiker attended Huntington School, York.
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Kabelo Duiker studied at Rhodes University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Art History.
(Thirteen Cents is an extraordinary and unsparing account ...)
Thirteen Cents is an extraordinary and unsparing account of a coming of age in Cape Town. Reminiscent of some of the greatest child narrators in literature, Azure’s voice will stay with the reader long after this short novel is finished. Based on personal experiences, Thirteen Cents is Duiker’s debut novel, originally published in 2000.
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2000
(By merging a cast of characters straight out of African m...)
By merging a cast of characters straight out of African myth folklore with everyday township life, K. Sello Duiker created a magical world and a truly wondrous quest, a timeless tale that will appeal to an ageless audience.
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2006
Kabelo Duiker was born on April 13, 1974, in Orlando, Soweto, South Africa.
Kabelo Duiker studied at Rhodes University received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and art history. Earlier he studied at La Salle College, Roodepoort, South Africa, and Redhill School, Sandton, South Africa. He also attended Huntington School, York.
Through the course of his career, Kabelo "Sello" Duiker was mainly a Writer. At Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, he worked as a Writer-in-Residence from 2003 to 2004. He also worked as an Advertising Copywriter for Harrison Human, Johannesburg, South Africa, and as a Scriptwriter for Endemol Productions, London, England.
While writing his Thirteen Cents, Duiker lived with the street kids of Cape Town to gather material for the book, which is set in the poorer parts of the city, where violence is common. The novel follows an adolescent named Azure who comes of age as he works odd jobs to survive. Although his environment is tough, Azure is strong and defiant as he faces obstacles that are no longer based on his race but a new inequality based primarily on class.
In The Quiet Violence of Dreams, Duiker tells the story of Tshepo, a young man whose somewhat privileged life and upbringing are shattered when his mobster father murders his mother. The incident destroys Tshepo's mental well being, and he turns to drug use as a way to hide from his problems. Tshepo eventually is locked up in a psychiatric hospital and realizes he has to come to grips with who he really is, including accepting his own homosexuality. "But certainly the novel is about more than this,’' Duiker told Dunton in a Mail and Guardian Online interview. "Tshepo's questions about his sexuality engage him in a bigger journey about what it means to be black, educated. Can the West and Africa be reconciled?" Another primary character in the novel is Tshepo's female friend Mmabatho, who walks between the white and black, as well as the modern and traditional Cape Town. Duiker told Dunton: "Mmabatho to me serves as a bridge between two worlds. She tries to integrate her own African culture with that of Cape Town and everything that is perceived as outside African culture. In a way, she’s her own tapestry." Dunton called The Quiet Violence of Dreams an "ambitious book, both thematically and in terms of its length." Khumalo noted that Duiker finds his voice in The Quiet Violence of Dreams," and he lets it bellow in its entire glory."
Duiker's career ended with his life path on 19 January 2005, when he was thirty. The writer committed suicide, which was supposedly related to his mental health.
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2000Physical Characteristics: Some sources claim that Kabelo Duiker had borderline schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, which led to his death in 2005.