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Stephen Watson was born on 6 November, 1954 in Cape Town, South Africa, is a South African poet (1954–2011). Discover Stephen Watson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?
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Poet, academic |
| Age |
56 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
| Born |
6 November, 1954 |
| Birthday |
6 November |
| Birthplace |
Cape Town, South Africa |
| Date of death |
10 April, 2011 |
| Died Place |
Cape Town, South Africa |
| Nationality |
South Africa
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Stephen Watson Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Stephen Watson Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Stephen Watson worth at the age of 56 years old? Stephen Watson’s income source is mostly from being a successful Poet. He is from South Africa. We have estimated Stephen Watson's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Stephen Watson (6 November 1954 – 10 April 2011) was a South African poet.
Most of his poetry is about the city of Cape Town, where he lived most of his life.
His schooling was at Bishops (Diocesan College) in Rondebosch.
He was a professor in English at the University of Cape Town.
He was also the Director of the Writing Centre there, and one of the founders of the Creative Writing Program.
Creatively, he believed that poetry and literature can stand on their own and need not refer to politics, or the struggle for liberation, in order to be valid.
He took a strong stand on poetic relativism, believing it was possible and desirable to differentiate between "good" and "bad" poetry - a stance that has drawn criticism.
As a literary critic, Watson suggested that "South Africa is held together by a nexus of peoples 'dreaming' each other in terms of the myths that the distance between them creates."
Watson was anchored at the University of Cape Town for most of his career.
In his poetry, he was best known as a lyrical chronicler of the Cape's natural beauty, documenting the response of the soul when surrounded by it.
His intertwinedness with the landscape spilled into his prose, too: he memorably wrote about his "love affair" with the city's mountains last year, in what might be cast as a follow-up essay to his landmark 1990 piece, "In These Mountains".
Although poetry was Watson's chief metier, he distinguished himself as an essayist, writing on subjects near and far, as diverse as South African "black" poetry and Leonard Cohen.
In February 2006, the normally reclusive Watson made the mainstream news when, writing in New Contrast, he launched an attack on Antjie Krog, accusing her of plagiarism.
He claimed that she "lifted the entire conception of her book [the stars say 'tsau' ] from [his] Return of the Moon", and that she also plagiarised from the work of Ted Hughes.
Krog strongly denied the claims.
In January 2011, Watson received the English Academy's Thomas Pringle Award for a short story, "Buiten Street", published in New Contrast.
His poetry featured in the most recent edition of Poetry International – South Africa, where further biographical information is available.
