Karin Schimke

Author | Editor | Writing Coach

Writer of Love Letter

[Karin Schimke @karinschimke]

Libraries. Generosity. Meanness. https://t.co/KM7SBhcyQd

[Dr Helen Moffett @Heckitty]

Very pleased to see translators being acknowledged on the Sunday Times fiction award longlist: congratulations to @karinschimke, @HenriettaRI, Michiel Heyns.

[Megan Ross @itsmeganross]

I took this evening to reread my well worn copy of @karinschimke’s ‘Navigate’. I did so in one setting, a feat for me, and beat my sleeping tablet. Everyone should have a copy.

[Karin Schimke @karinschimke]

Modjaji has done so much for South African literature and South African women writers, quietly finding the new voices and handling them the mic.

[Modjaji Books @modjaji_bks]

We ❤️ seeing authors we've published celebrated, 3 of the 5 in this article were first published by us. Karin Schimke, CA Davids, and Jolyn Phillips. #everydayiswomensday https://t.co/CMNCAo3Z2P

[Karin Schimke @karinschimke]

"There is something vulgar about public dissemination of opinions on matters about which one does not have extensive first-hand knowledge. If I speak of what I do not know, or know hastily, this is mere opinion-mongering." (Susan Sontag.)

[Karin Schimke @karinschimke]

Author’s Corner, episode 1: Ntabeni and Nyathi - LitNet

I love this sprawling literary conversation. https://t.co/LNFSkjnJ9h

[Karin Schimke @karinschimke]

Whenever the proverbial apocalyptic shit hits the proverbial fan I remember that this is when ordinary people become extraordinary. When things become mega-kak, more people seem to become mega-amazing.

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[Karin Schimke @karinschimke]

Unfrazzle yourself https://t.co/g0Ng3xwC2g

[Karin Schimke @karinschimke]

Charlize Theron or JK Rowling. Who is the bully? #afrikaans #terfs https://t.co/EF3S6WsI1f

[mpush ntabeni 🇿🇦 🇵🇸 @mpushntabeni]

Nice to be reminded that Cape Town has this much writing talent.
Thank you @CapeTownEtc with a wink to my talented friend @mermaid_fillet 🌻🌻🌻🌻

[Karin Schimke @karinschimke]

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[Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) @EElawcentre]

It is "written in plain English so that it is accessible to learners, their parents, teaching staff and members of school governing bodies" writes @karinschimke about the Basic Education Rights Handbook on @dailymaverick. Read more: https://t.co/PnZmca1XiH

[Karin Schimke @karinschimke]

9: the heart and the external hard drive https://t.co/O9ZXVtwACT

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Woodshavings

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Going Large https://t.co/DQuhJK7de4

[Karin Schimke @karinschimke]

3. 'The warnings of the marginalised, the less privileged, go unheard. Their experience, their knowledge, their insights are deemed unimportant, irrelevant to society at large.' (Kübra Gümüsay from Speaking and Being.)

[Karin Schimke @karinschimke]

2. '...but those lines often turn up in places that privoleged people don't visit, which is why they only notice the problem when it affects them directly. (Kübra Gümüsay)

[Karin Schimke @karinschimke]

1. 'A problem doesn't usually show up suddenly, but takes years to come to the fore. Some – those at the margins, the less privileged – see the lines it draws through society...' (Kübra Gümüsay)