A Celebration of Flames

by Farouk Asvat

§ Winner Of The Vita Award §

69 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2014

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FAROUK ASVAT

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[§] BOOKS BY FAROUK ASVAT

● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
● I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
● In The House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words (comparative literature & literary criticism)

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FAROUK ASVAT : BIOGRAPHY

POLITICAL HARASSMENT
FAROUK ASVAT was banned by the South African regime between 1973 and 1978; and nominated an Amnesty International "Prisoner of Conscience" during this period.
He was denied a passport until 1986 when he was issued with a highly restricted document; being granted limited passports in 1987 and 1988 to take up his scholarships. From 1971 to 1995 Farouk Asvat received numerous death threats from both the Security Police of the apartheid regime; and then from the African National Congress/United Democratic Front/Congress of South African Trade Union alliance on the supposed left of the political spectrum from 1984 onwards, for his views and writings - including from writers belonging to this alliance. An attempt was also made on his life in 1995 by the above organisations.

AWARDS
Farouk Asvat won the Vita Literary Award for southern Africa for his anthology, A Celebration of Flames. He was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley, for creative writing and post graduate work in English literature; the EOC Scholarship to the Vrije Universiteit in the Netherlands; and a scholarship by the University of Cape Town Health Care Trust to research the socio-economic-political situation under apartheid (which was serialised in two newspapers). He was awarded the Kwanzaa Honors Certificate by the Africa Network in the United States for his contribution to Horses: Athlone. His poem, "Possibilities for a Man Hunted by SBs" was selected to represent South Africa in the International Portland Review. He was nominated an Amnesty International "Prisoner of Conscience" in the 1970's.

MEDICAL DOCTOR
He qualified as a medical doctor at the University of the Witwatersrand, but was unable to secure an internship for two and a half years because of "political listing;" and subsequently had difficulties at various hospitals and clinics in finding a job. He worked at the Zanempilo Community Health Centre in Zinyoka - in contravention of his banning order - at the time of its closure by the regime on 19 October 1977. He