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Bridget Pitt
Bridget Pitt is a South African writer, environmental activist and art teacher who was born in Zimbabwe and lives in Cape Town.[1] In 1987 she received a British Council Scholarship to study media at the University of London.[2] Her first published writing was for grassroots newspapers,[3] which was part of the anti-apartheid struggle during the 1980s. She also drew a cartoon strip for the Weekly Mail.[2] She wrote educational material for NGOs and textbooks, as well as poetry and fiction.[4] She has published poetry in The Thinker magazine, short stories, and novels.[5] Her crime fiction novel The Unseen Leopard was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2011, and for the 2012 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.[4] List of titles
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