Date: Tuesday 17 July
Time: 15:30-17:00
Venue: Merensky Library Auditorium, main level
RSVP by 13 July: Corena Garnas, [email protected], 012 420 4895

James Kilgore was a fugitive from U.S. justice for 27 years, on the run for political activities in the 1970s. He spent nearly two decades of that time in Zimbabwe and South Africa where he was known as John Pape, educator, husband, father, researcher, and avid supporter of trade unions and social movements. In 2002, he was arrested in Cape Town and extradited to California where he served six and a half years in prison. During his time of incarceration, he became a fiction writer, producing a number of novels. Two of these have been published in South Africa: We Are All Zimbabweans Now and Freedom Never Rests, with a third on the way. In this seminar James will talk about his evolution as a fiction writer- the challenges of writing while behind bars and how his experience in southern African inspired his work.Presented by the Faculty of Humanities, Office of the Dean