About

I am a writer, teacher and researcher based at the University of Cape Town. My focus is on twentieth-century, southern African and world literatures, as well as narrative non-fiction and the environmental humanities.  Firepool, a collection of my essays, was published by Kwela Books in 2017. Experiments with Truth, an academic study of life writing and the South African transition, came out in 2019. A new collection of essays and non-fiction, Show Me the Place, was published by Jonathan Ball in April 2024. My work has appeared in a range of local and international publications, including the New Statesman, Financial Times and Harper's magazine.

Contact

A.C. Jordan Building 127      
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch 7701
South Africa                                                    
hedley.twidle@uct.ac.za                                

Associate Professor and Head of Department
Department of English Literary Studies                           
Environmental Humanities South                       
Archive and Public Culture
Neuroscience Institute
 
i was born 24 february 1980 in johannesburg                 
i found myself in a situation