Joan Hambidge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Joan Hambidge

South African poet

Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1956

Place of Birth: Aliwal North, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Joan Helene Hambidge (born 11 September 1956 in Aliwal North, South Africa) (the English surname notwithstanding), is an Afrikaans poet, literary theorist and academic.
She is a prolific poet in Afrikaans, controversial as a public figure and critic and notorious for her out-of-the-closet style of writing.
Her theoretic contributions deal mainly with Roland Barthes, deconstruction, postmodernism, psychoanalysis and metaphysics.