Nicholas Williamson @ Edit Red Writing Community

Nicholas Williamson

South Africa, Gauteng/Zone One, Johannesburg
Username: El bloggo

The author Nicholas Williamson writes here under the �??transformation�?� brand name Nicholas Jakari, and the name .NiK[00] for poetry.
His 1996 novel The Buffalo Hunters has become something of a cult classic in the annals of SA letters.
A second novel and various collections of poetry are also published in various places on the Internet and were for a long time also published on the author�??s personal web site, now discontinued in accordance with his decision to publish only under pseudonyms from now on in the spirit of the transformation mania that has engulfed us. An essay outlining the philosophy that underpins his writing was published by Penguin in the collected essays called �??Soweto Inside out�?� [2004] ISBN 9 78014304590. His poetry and short stories have been published variously over the past three decades and most recently [2005] he published a collection of poetry on the Internet called Rehearsing Nietzsche based on his year playing the part of the late poet for the International Nietzsche convention at Pretoria University in 2000.His work has also been published by Spoiled Ink and he is also a consummate bloggist and blogs regularly, amongst other places, on the Mail and Guardian site: http//: blogmark.mg.co.za under the reference name NiK.

An economics graduate from Wits University and a drama Licentiate of London�??s Trinity College he co-founded the famous Sundown Theatre Company in Harare during the seventies, and, following his return to SA after 1980 was in business in Johannesburg for many years until he was critically wounded in 1994 in a close-quarter gunfight with a criminal gang. He was forced to retire prematurely with a permanent disablement that precluded comfortable sitting and still carries a bullet lodged in his lumbar spine. On the other hand he did win the gunfight, Pyrrhic victory or not. The Buffalo Hunters was based on that incident. 7 Ways [his latest novel] is based on his experiences in the grim close-quarter world of direct selling and is derived from more than eleven thousand personal house calls, a few thousand corporate calls, more than five thousand Collection �??experiences�?�, and in excess of 16000 telephone calls in pursuit of business, and, in his role as a so-called �??Telkom strangler�?� [see text: 7 Ways]

After he recovered from multiple gunshot wounds he retired to a high school classroom where he has derived great pleasure over the past decade teaching business theory and practice to a multicultural collection of young people, an occupation that has also given him sufficient leisure to write poetry and other fiction and rebuild his health through the gentle art of Tai Chi Chuan.

He has been married to the same person, Diane, for the past 35 years and has three successful children: both his daughters were national sporting champions at one or other time while growing up, and his son is a biochemist specialising in the complex field of Structural Biology.

El bloggo's Genres: poetry, fiction, blogs, business

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