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Sylvia Vollenhoven
Sylvia Vollenhoven is an award-winning journalist and playwright as well as a filmmaker. She was nominated for the South African Film & TV Awards for Best Director and Best Documen...view moreSylvia Vollenhoven is an award-winning journalist and playwright as well as a filmmaker. She was nominated for the South African Film & TV Awards for Best Director and Best Documentary. A play she co-authored, My Word: Redesigning Buckingham Palace, was chosen for a run on London's West End. It received a four-star review in the prestigious Times newspaper. At the Grahamstown National Arts Festival another of her plays, Cold Case: Revisiting Dulcie September, won both a Standard Bank Audience Award and the inaugural Adelaide Tambo Award for Human Rights in the Arts. In the early '90s, Vollenhoven was the Southern African Correspondent for the Swedish newspaper, Expressen, and was awarded Sweden's top journalism prize by Scandinavia's prestigious Publicist Klubben. She is the founder of the VIA - Vision in Africa media organisation, which has spearheaded innovative international training initiatives, including a project called Africa Means Business to improve coverage of economics. In her spare time she does yoga and breathes very deeply.view less
Books by Sylvia Vollenhoven
The Keeper of the Kumm: Ancestral longing and belonging of a Boesmankind