Bridget Pitt
Bridget is a South African author and environmental activist who has published poetry, short fiction, nonfiction and three novels (Unbroken wing, Kwela, 1998; The unseen leopard, Human & Rousseau, 2010; Notes from the Lost Property Department, Penguin, 2015). Two were longlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Awards. Her second novel was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize (2011) and the Wole Soyinka African Literature Award (2012). Catalyst Press is proud to be the US publisher for her forthcoming novel, Eye brother horn.
Short.Sharp.Stories anthology Fluid: interview with Bridget Pitt, author of “Paper Nautilus”
2023-08-22"Storytelling has always been a way of making meaning of our lives, and of processing what has happened to us, individually and collectively. Many of the traditional stories that have been passed down orally, that are still passed down in some communities, emerged through processing traumatic events that the family or community had experienced."
Authors’ Corner episode 2: Ntabeni and Pitt
2023-02-24"I find that stories often have their own objectives, which I only discover while writing, or sometimes after writing."
Who is African: Place, identity and belonging in literature
2022-12-06On Sunday, 4 December 2022, an international team of authors discussed the topic, "Who is an African?" They also asked: Who is allowed to write from an African experience? Why do African authors get boxed into certain kinds of story?