Linda Gabriel
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Spoken Word Artist| Applied Drama Practitioner| Documentary Photographer |
| Location | Harare, Zimbabwe |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Linda Gabriel, born in 1985, is one of the crop of exciting female performance poets to emerge out of Zimbabwe. Bilingual, her linguistic versatility is forged into brilliant poems written in either English or Shona, depending on which language effectively expresses what issue. The 30-year-old powerful orator has been hooked on performance poetry since high school in 2001 and has since participated in major literary events in Zimbabwe, the rest of southern Africa and Europe. Mostly her work celebrates womanhood and its challenges. She uses the stage to tell untold stories and address taboo matters. |
| Interests | Performance, Poetry, Story telling, Photography, Travelling, Community Development |
| Favorite Books | mayor of casterbridge, much ado bout nothing, twelfth night, the lion and the jewel, destiny, not another day, far from the madding crowd, refugee boy, violets of oshaantu, purple hibiscus, joys of motherhood, ancestors, sizwe bansi is dead, the man died, i shall marry when i want, from zia with love, the famished road, zipporah, black heat |