Renee Sigel's Reading Interests
Influences
James Joyce. Celine. Andre Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, JM Coetzee, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Paul Callico, Herman Hesse, Maria Reiner Rilke, Shakespeare, Taro Aizu, Mario Susko,Kate Mosse, Doris Lessing, Tim Parks, Sean Penn, Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, Milan Kundera, Simone de Beauvoir, Colette, Athol Fugard, Ezekiel Mphlaphalele,Weil&Brecht, Tom Waits, T.S.Eliot, Ezra Pound, WB Yeats, Harold Bloom, Edward Said, Christopher Hitchins Robert Hughes, Chris Emery, Paul Auster, Andrew Motion, Michael Longley, not to forget Winnie the Pooh, among others.
She has dealt with (this) exile by delving deep into the written word, both in fiction and in poetry. The exploration of her prose, which is also excellent, comparing with the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, si for another time. In her poetry we find a combination of eloquence and love for the English language that approaches that of T.S.Eliot. (Roger Humes, Curator Other Voices)”
—Preface, Sexions, selections from life and love
About Renee
I was born and educated in South Africa during the 'golden era' of Apartheid. I grew up somewhere between the stables, the stage and the dance studio. My young world was shaped by storytellers yet, I would never have considered writing at all had it not been...
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