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Karen Press
South African poet
Karen Press (born 1956) is a South African poet and translator.[1]
She was born in Cape Town, and lives in Sea Point. Press is a full-time writer and editor, having published ten collections of poetry,[2] a film script, short stories, as well as educational material and textbooks in the fields of science, mathematics, English and economics.[3] She also translated poetry from Afrikaans, primarily work by Antjie Krog.[2]
In 1987 she co-founded the publishing collective Buchu Books.[3]
Antjie Krog described her poems in The Museum of Working Life as "a haunting museum constructed in Press's delicate tone and vivid poetic intelligence."[4]