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Stephen Coan

Stephen Coan is an assistant editor and feature writer at The Witness, the Pietermaritzburg-based KwaZulu-Natal daily. Born in London, he joined the BBC after leaving school. He first worked as a researcher for BBC News before being trained as a film editor. He came to South Africa in 1975. He was employed by the SABC in Johannesburg as a film editor for two years and subsequently by a small film production company. During the eighties Coan freelanced as a writer-director in the film industry and in theatre. His production of the play Stevie by Hugh Whitemore about the poet Stevie Smith, with Dorothy Ann Gould in the title role, won several awards, including the Breytenbach Epathlon for best director as well as a Vita award for best production.

Coan moved to Pietermaritzburg in 1990. In addition to writing for the Witness, he has been involved in researching the life and work of H Rider Haggard with particular focus on the years Haggard spent in South Africa. He edited, annotated and wrote a biographical introduction for Haggard’s previously unpublished Diary of an African Journey published by the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press in 2000. In 2001 a British edition was published by Christopher Hurst and an American edition by New York University Press. With Alfred Tella he co-edited Mameena and other plays – The dramatic works of H. Rider Haggard, again published by the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. He was also involved in the creation of the Haggard Literary Trail for KZN Literary Tourism.

Coan’s poetry has been published in various journals, including The English Academy Review, Sesame, Fidelities and Carapace.

 

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