A rebirthday

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Dear All

Would you like to help me celebrate my fifth rebirthday?

Let me explain. It was on palindromic 29.2.92 (that's the 29th of February 1992, for those of you calendarly challenged), it was on that leap-year day …

that my heart ♥

very nearly stopped ♥

me dead

in my tracks

… but – happily – it decided: 'Not Yet.' ♥

I was nursed back to health by a loving sister and cardiologists and dieticians and friends. I'm very glad that happened, because I've been able to do a whole whack of work in these 20 years that I wouldn't have done otherwise! For instance, there wouldn't have been any of the post-1992 Robin books! And there wouldn't have been any Robin involvement in any of the following: No Triangle Project! No GABYS (Gay and Bisexual Youngmen's Support-group)! No Gay & Lesbian Helpline! No Young Gay Guys column in Exit! No editing of English Alive! No Siyagruva Series! No IBBY SA! No Cape 300 Foundation! No Arts & Culture Trust! No Junkets Publisher!

No Playscript Series! No Collected Series! …

If you like, have a look at the attached list of the books I've produced since 1992 and see what I mean.

So each leap year I sort-of celebrate my rebirthday. And 29 February 2012 will be my fifth rebirthday, 20 years after the heart attack.

I'm not having a party – that could be tempting fate!

Instead, you can help me celebrate this way:

Take a book – any book of any sort – that you've read and leave it in some public place for someone to pick up and read.

Before you do that, write this inside the book:

Pick me up

and read me.

Then drop me

for someone else

to pick me up

and read me.

If you feel like doing that, that would be good!

Thanks.

Love

Robin Malan Junkets Publisher

Out now:

Short, Sharp & Snappy 1 and 2 plays for high schools

Rhymes for the Grandchildren: Moose, Mouse & Other Rhymes by Jonty Driver

Forthcoming: The Magnet Theatre 'Migration' Plays

a New Enlarged Second Edition of Lord Hamlet aka iHamlet

Brothers in Blood by Mike van Graan

Adam & Luke two gay novellas by Peter Krummeck

The Merry Wives of Zuma by Pieter-Dirk Uys

Books written or compiled by Robin Malan since 1992:
(chronologically arranged)

Genre	Capacity	Title	Publisher	Year
P	Compiler	New Outridings [see update later, in 2005]	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	1993
SS	Compiler	Being Here: modern short stories from Southern Africa [see update later, in 2007]	David Philip Publisher, Cape Town	1994
SS	Compiler	New Beginnings: short stories from southern Africa [see update later, in 2006]	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	1995
P	Compiler	Poetry Works 1: a workbook anthology for students and teachers	David Philip Publisher, Cape Town	1995
Annl Anth	Editor	English Alive: an annual anthology of writing from high schools in Southern Africa 1995–2004 [see also 2006–2012]	South African Council for English Education Western Cape Branch (SACEE), Cape Town	1995–2004 [see also 2006]
Pl	Compiler	The Distance Remains and other plays	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	1996
Lity Study	Writer	Introduction and Notes to Educational Edition of Richard Rive:'Buckingham Palace', District Six	David Philip Publisher, Cape Town	1996
P	compiler	My African World: poems for younger readers [out of print]	David Philip Publisher, Cape Town	1996
P	Compiler	Poetry Works 2: a workbook anthology for students and teachers	David Philip Publisher, Cape Town	1997
Biog	abridged by	Margaret McCord: The Calling of Katie Makanya, also translated into isiXhosa by Pamella Maseko: Ubizo lukaKatie Makhanya	David Philip Publisher, Cape Town	1997
Biogl	Compiler	The Essential Nelson Mandela [out of print]	David Philip Publisher, Cape Town	1997
Biogl	Compiler	The Essential Steve Biko	David Philip Publisher, Cape Town	1997
P	Compiler	Worldscapes: a collection of verse [see update later, in 2005]	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	1997 [see also 2005]
N	Writer	The Sound of New Wings Runner-up, Young Africa Award 1998	Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town	1998
Lity Study	writer	(with Jerome Damon, Rochelle Kapp, Mncedisi Mashigoane, Nokuthula Mazibuko, Colleen Moroukian, Khulile Nxumalo) A Poetry Companion to Worldscapes and New Inscapes	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	1998

Genre	Capacity	Title	Publisher	Year
Lity Study	Writer	(with Mncedisi Mashigoane) Study Notes for Zakes Mda: Ways of Dying	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	1999
SS	Compiler	(with an introduction by Rochelle Kapp) No Place Like and other short stories by southern African women writers	David Philip Publisher, Cape Town	1999
P	Compiler	The Pick of Snailpress Poems	David Philip Publisher, Cape Town	2000
Lity Study	additional material	(for Richard Blunt, Daphne Paizee, Gaile Perkin, Mary-Louise Peires) New Successful English Grade 12	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	2002
Lity Study	writer	(with Mncedisi Mashigoane) Study Notes for Zakes Mda: The Heart of Redness	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	2002
N	Writer	(as Nibor Nalam) High Heels and Hijack	Siyagruva Series, New Africa Books, Cape Town	2002
N	Writer	(as Orbin Lamna, with Mteto Mzongwana, Onele Mfeketo) Mom's Taxi	Siyagruva Series, New Africa Books, Cape Town	2003
N	Writer	(as Biron Alnam) No Problem, Man!	Siyagruva Series, New Africa Books, Cape Town	2003
N	Writer	(with Russell Kaschula, Colleen Moroukian, Anne Schlebusch, as Rusleen Malbusch) Boy in da City	Siyagruva Series, New Africa Books, Cape Town	2003
P	Compiler	(with Shabbir Banoobhai, Isobel Dixon, Gus Ferguson, Malcolm Hacksley) Tatamkhulu Afrika: Night Rider: selected poems	Kwela and Snailpress, Cape Town	2003
Lity Study	writer-compiler	The Southern African Impossible Book Quiz Book!	Spearhead, New Africa Books, Cape Town	2004
N	Writer	(as Brion Mnala, with Colleen Moroukian) Namibian Kwaito	Siyagruva Series, New Africa Books, Cape Town	2004
N	Writer	Rebel Angel	Junkets Publisher, Cape Town	2005
Biog	Editor	Tatamkhulu Afrika: Mr Chameleon	Jacana Media, Johannesburg	2005
N	Writer	The Story of Lucky Simelane	Jacana Media, Johannesburg	2005
P	Compiler	Worldscapes new enlarged edition	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	2005
P	Compiler	New Outridings revised edition	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	2005
P	Compiler	New Inscapes revised edition	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	2005

Genre	Capacity	Title	Publisher	Year
MixGen	Compiler	Leaves to a Tree: beyond English Alive – a celebration of writing in South Africa	David Philip New Africa Books, Cape Town	2005
Pl	Writer	The boy who walked into the world the stage adaptation of The Story of Lucky Simelane	The Playscript Series, Junkets Publisher, Cape Town; and also Nasou Via Afrika, Cape Town	2006 2010
Hbk	Writer	Ah Big Yaws? new enlarged edition	Jacana Media, Johannesburg	2006
SS	Compiler	New Beginnings new enlarged edition	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	2006
P	compiler	New Poetry Works	David Philip New Africa Books, Cape Town	2007
SS	Compiler	Being Here: modern short stories from southern Africa new revised enlarged edition	David Philip New Africa Books, Cape Town	2007
Annl Anth	Editor	English Alive: an annual anthology of writing from high schools in Southern Africa 2007– 2012	South African Council for English Education Western Cape Branch (SACEE), Cape Town	2007–2012
Pl	Compiler	(with Nokuthula Mazibuko) South African Plays for TV, Radio and Stage	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	2007
Biogl	Compiler	Cheesecutters and Gymslips: South Africans at boarding school	Umuzi, Random Struik, Cape Town	2008
P	Compiler	PoemScapes	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	2008
SS	Compiler	StoryScapes	Oxford University Press, Cape Town	2008
Lity Study	writer-compiler	A – Z of African Writers: a guide to modern African writing in English	Shuter, Pietermaritzburg	2009
N	Writer	Sonny Jim and His Sister	Shuter, Pietermaritzburg	2009
Pl	Writer	Lord Hamlet: a collage [see update later, in 2012]	The Playscript Series, Junkets Publisher, Cape Town	2010 [see also 2012]
Lity Study	writer-compiler	Burning a Hole in the Page: a reader's guide to 70 South African writers	Shuter, Pietermaritzburg	2010
MixGen	Compiler	(with Ashraf Johaardien) Yes, I am! writing by South African gay men	Gay Junkets, Junkets Publisher, Cape Town	2010
P	Compiler	Our African World: poems for younger readers	Shuter & Shooter, Pietermaritzburg	2010
Hbk	Writer	(with drawings by Roberto Millan) The Young Gay Guys Guide to Safer Gay Sex	Gay Junkets, Junkets Publisher, Cape Town	2011
Pl	compiler	S.A. Gay Plays 1: the Artscape Dublin Festival Plays	The Collected Series, Gay Junkets, Junkets Publisher, Cape Town	2011

Genre	Capacity	Title	Publisher	Year
Pl	Compiler	(with Colleen Moroukian) Short, Sharp & Snappy 1: southern African plays for high schools	The Collected Series, Junkets Publisher, Cape Town	2011
Pl	Compiler	(with Colleen Moroukian) Short, Sharp & Snappy 2: southern African plays for high schools	The Collected Series, Junkets Publisher, Cape Town	2011
Pl	Writer	Lord Hamlet: a collage aka iHamlet new revised enlarged second edition, issued under two titles	The Playscript Series, Junkets Publisher, Cape Town	2012 2012
Nov	Writer	My 'Funny' Brother	unpublished	2012
Pl	Writer	The British Maharajah and the German Rent Boy	unpublished	2012

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