Elleke Boehmer
Elleke Boehmer is a prominent figure in the field of postcolonial studies, a distinguished literary critic, and the author of novels focusing on experiences of social alienation and split belonging. She is Professor of World Writing in English in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, and Professorial Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. Among her critical and academic works are: Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (OUP, 1995); Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 (OUP, 1998); Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance in Interaction (OUP, 2002); and Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (Manchester UP, 2005). Her debut novel Screens Against the Sky (1990) was shortlisted for the David Higham Prize. It was followed by An Immaculate Figure (1993) and Bloodlines (1997), which was shortlisted for the Sanlam Literary Award in 2001. Her most recent work, Nile Baby, will be published in 2008, and followed by a biography of Nelson Mandela (OUP).