Ilva
General details
Ilva
Johannesburg, South Africa
Ilva
English
In short
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Since completing a BIS (publishing) degree at the University of Pretoria in 2001, I have been involved in online and print publishing and media within various industries including information technology, gaming, social media, conferencing, government, consumer, advertising, entertainment and music - predominantly as a writer.
I currently work as a freelance writer, sub-editor and proofreader. I have also recently began expressing myself in Afrikaans and through music.
My yearning for wide open spaces and stress-free silences often takes me away from the city where I can allow the beauty of nature to re-ignite my creativity. I found her heart beats loudest when surrounded by the koppies of the mid-Karoo, specifically in a little town that time forgot - called Steynsburg. - I came first in The Write Company's annual short story writing competition in 2009, and have recently been a judge for both the Pica and AdMag Awards. I have had my poetry published on various online mediums and am hoping to have some pieces published in a coffee table book next year.
My Favorites: Reading and Writing
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Poisonwood Bible
Brave New World
1984
The Catcher in the Rye
The Fountainhead
A Clockwork Orange
The Alchemist
Atlas Shrugged
The Corrections
Fight Club
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Middlesex
Lolita
The Little Prince
Perfume
Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
High Fidelity
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Chuck Palahniuk
The World According to Garp
The Hotel New Hampshire
Flowers for Algernon
She's Come Undone
The Secret Life of Bees
The Kite Runner
Illumination Night
Five Quarters of the Orange
Turtle Moon
The Other Side of Silence
Shantaram -
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Freakonomics -
In a tree in the African Karoo
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Fiction: Coming of Age, General, Short Story
Poetry: Personal / Confessional, Prose, Romantic / Love
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Alice in Wonderland
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Isabel Allende
Barbara Kingsolver
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Ayn Rand
Paulo Coelho
Chuck Palahniuk
Alice Hoffman
Franz Kafka
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