Pieter Odendaal

is a poet, translator, publisher, producer and director of InZync Poetry, an organisation committed to the expansion of multi-language poetry platforms in Stellenbosch and Cape Town. He is working at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane on a thesis about spoken word as a way to promote tolerance in socio-ecological systems. His debut poetry collection Asof geen berge ooit hier gewoon het nie (2018) has been awarded with the prestigious Ingrid Jonker Prize 2019. This yearly South African prize is awarded alternatively to an Afrikaans or English poet who has published a first volume in the previous two years.