Jarred Thompson

JARRED THOMPSON won the 2020 Afritondo Literary Prize and has been the recipient of several prestigious scholarships, including The Global Excellence and Stature Scholarship, The Chris van Wyk Creative Writing Scholarship, two National Arts Council Grants and an NRF nGAP Scholarship. He is a literary and cultural studies researcher and educator and works as a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Pretoria. The Institute for Creative Dying is his debut novel.