Glen Retief is a South African writer[1] who won aLambda Literary Award in 2012 for his memoirThe Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood.[2]The Jack Bank was also an Africa Book Club Book of 2011.
Retief grew up in South Africa'sKruger National Park, where his father was a park warden.[3] He later attended aboarding school before studying English at theUniversity of Cape Town.[3] As ananti-apartheid andLGBT rights activist in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was part of the group that successfully lobbied forsexual orientation to be included in theConstitution of South Africa as a prohibited grounds ofdiscrimination.[3] His essay "Keeping Sodom Out of the Laager" appeared inDefiant Desire, an influential anthology of South African LGBT writing published in 1996.[3]
He currently lives inPretoria,South Africa, with his husband, Americanperformance artist and Bible scholarPeterson Toscano,[4] and teaches English literature and creative writing atSusquehanna University.[1]
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