Professor David Peimer
The Nobel Prize: History and Notable Winners of the Prize for Literature from the ‘Global South’
Summary
In 1867, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel patented dynamite. In this talk we will look at Nobel’s life, the origins of the Nobel Prize and two of the great winners for literature from what is now called the ‘Global South’: JM Coetzee (2003) and Gabriel García Márquez (1982). We will focus on their novels, “Disgrace” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude”.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.