Rayda Jacobs

Rayda Jacobs (born March 6, 1947) is a South African writer and film-maker.[1]

Rayda Jacobs
Born (1947-03-06) March 6, 1947
Diep River, Cape Town, South Africa
Occupation
  • Filmaker
  • writer
Children2

She was born in Diep River, Cape Town and began writing at a young age.[1] In 1968, she moved to Toronto, Canada.[2] She married there, had two children and later divorced.[1] Her first book The Middle Children, a collection of short stories, was published in Canada in 1994. Jacobs returned to South Africa the following year. Her novel Eyes of the Sky, published in 1996, received the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English fiction.[2]

She wrote a series of feature articles for the Cape Times and hosted radio programs.[2] She has also produced and directed documentaries for television, including God Has Many Names and Portrait of Muslim Women.[1]

Selected works[2]
  • The Slave Book, novel (1998)
  • Sachs Street, novel (2001)
  • Confessions of a Gambler, novel (2003), received The Sunday Times Fiction Prize and the Herman Charles Bosman Prize, adapted for film
gollark: I checked a while ago, and apparently I can lift things which are at *least* 10kg.
gollark: Why do you have random weights underneath your sofa?
gollark: That seems like quite a large number.
gollark: I read a convincing and well-cited... reddit post... on the health benefits of strength training last year.
gollark: I should probably find a scale or something and start tracking that.

References
  1. Turok, Karina; Orford, Margie (2006). Life and Soul: Portraits of Women who Move South Africa. p. 45. ISBN 1770130438.
  2. "Rayda Jacobs (South Africa)". Centre for Creative Arts.


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