Terry Kurgan

Terry Kurgan is an eminent South African artist and writer based in Johannesburg. Her book Everyone Is Present received the 2019 Alan Paton Prize, South Africa’s premier literary nonfiction award, and was also selected as a finalist for the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards (New York), and shortlisted for the 2019 Photo Arles Book Prize (France). Terry is a research associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where she is working on a new book that draws upon her soldier/father’s photographs documenting his participation in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. She teaches and supervises the Masters in Creative Writing Programme at the same university, and is codirector of the independent publishing project, Fourthwall Books.