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Farouk Asvat: § Farouk Asvat is a novelist, poet, translator & medical doctor, banned by the apartheid regime. § He was awarded the VITA Literary Award fo his anthology, "A Celebration Of Flames". § He was an Amnesty International "Prisoner of Conscience"; awarded the Fulbright Scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley; the EOC Scholarship to the Vrije Universiteit in the Netherlands; the University of Cape Town Health Care Trust Scholarship; and the Kwanzaa Honors Certificate by the Africa Network. § He qualified as a medical doctor at the University of the Witwatersrand, and worked at various community clinics and hospitals. § His poems, short stories and essays have been published in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Turkey, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, Germany, England and South Africa. § His poems have been translated into French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, and Turkish. § He has read his poems at numerous community venues in South Africa and abroad. § He has freelanced as a journalist, columnist and art critic for various newspapers. • all his books are now available on amazon: in paperback & kindle @ https://www.amazon.com/author/faroukasvat

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