Isobel Dixon is MD and Head of Books at the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency where she represents writers from around the world. Her clients have won all the major South African literary awards, and authors on her list have, among others, won the Caine Prize, Commonwealth and PEN Awards, the Barry Award and been shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, the Author’s Club First Book Award, and the Booker Prize.<\/p>\n
Isobel was born and educated in South Africa, and in Edinburgh where she completed Masters degrees in English Literature and Applied Linguistics. She has translated novels from the Afrikaans and her debut poetry collection Weather Eye <\/i>(Carapace, 2001) won the Sanlam and the Olive Schreiner Prizes in South Africa. Her further collections, A Fold in the Map<\/i> and The Tempest Prognosticator,<\/i> were both republished by Nine Arches in 2018. Her latest collection Bearings <\/i>is published by Modjaji in South Africa and Nine Arches in the UK (April 2016) and Mariscat published a pamphlet The Leonids<\/i> (August 2016). Nine Arches will publish her next collection The Landing<\/i> in 2021 and she is working on a poetry-music-art collaboration linked to D.H. Lawrence’s Birds, Beasts and Flowers<\/i>.<\/p>\n