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Co-founder/senior investigative reporter, Our Burning Planet @ Daily Maverick. Author: Continental Shift (2016), Ways of Staying (2009)
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Claim your profileKevin Bloom is a South African author, editor and investigative journalist. He is the co-author of Continental Shift: A Journey into Africa’s Changing Fortunes, published in South Africa and the United Kingdom in 2016. His first book, Ways of Staying, won the 2010 South African Literary Award for literary journalism and was shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award. He is an Honorary Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa (IWP 2011), and a recipient of the WISER Writing Fellowship (2008/9). His byline has appeared in Granta, The Guardian and The Daily Beast, amongst others, and he is a senior correspondent for South Africa’s Daily Maverick.
Master Of Arts, Creative Writing at University Of The WitwatersrandGraduated: 2008
Journalism, Media Studies at Rhodes UniversityGraduated: 2001
Bachelor Of Arts, English Literature, Politics at University Of South Africa/Universiteit Van Suid - AfrikaGraduated: 1997