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• Marguerite_Poland abstract "Marguerite Poland (born 3 April 1950, Transvaal now Gauteng, South Africa) is a South African writer and author of eleven children's books.Among her works are The Mantis of the Moon and Woodash Stars for both of which she received the Percy Fitzpatrick Award, the first two books to receive this award. The Mantis and the Moon also received the Sankei Honorable Award for translation into Japanese. She has written four adult novels. The Train to Doringbult was short listed for the CNA Awards and Shades for the M-Net Award. Shades has been a matriculation setwork for over a decade throughout South Africa. Her third novel, Iron Love, draws much of its inspiration from the lives of a group of boys just prior to the Great War of 1914-1918. A stage adaption written and directed by Ingrid Wylde appeared at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in 2006. Her more recent works, Recessional for Grace and The Abundant Herds: a Celebration of the Nguni Cattle of the Zulu People have been adapted for documentary films. Her work is translated into several languages including French and Japanese. She was chosen to appear in Twentieth Century Children's Writers (St James Press, Cambridge) and in the 'International Who's Who', published by Cambridge University Press.Marguerite Poland is the recipient of two national Lifetime Achievement Awards for English Literature from the Department of Arts and Culture(2005) and SALA (South African Literary Awards) 2010.When she was two years old, the Poland family relocated to the Eastern Cape where she spent most of her formative years. After completing her secondary education at St Dominic's Priory School in Port Elizabeth, Poland completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at Rhodes University, majoring in Social Anthropology and Xhosa. In 1971, Marguerite Poland completed her honours degree in African languages at Stellenbosch University. In 1977 she obtained her doctorate degree in Zulu folklore - her field of speciality being cattle. Her Doctoral thesis was 'A Descriptive Study of the Sanga-Nguni Cattle of the Zulu People' - from the University of Natal. She also has an Honours degree in Comparative African Languages and an MA and Ph.D in Zulu Literature from the University of Kwazulu-Natal.Poland also worked as a social worker in Port Elizabeth and in Durban. In 1997. Poland contributed to a weekly column in the local newspaper, The Mercury. Poland also worked as an ethnologist at the Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town.Most recently she taught English for a year at St. Andrew's College in Grahamstown, where she was commissioned to write a history of the school to mark the 150th anniversary of its foundation in 2005.The resulting publication 'The Boy in You: a Biography of St Andrew's College, Grahamstown 1855-2005' was launched in South Africa and London in 2008.(www.sacschool.com)Poland is married to attorney, Martin Oosthuizen, who was also raised in the Eastern Cape and attended St Andrew's College. They have two daughters and three grandchildren and divide their time between Durban and Grahamstown where she acts as historian to the College.".
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