Biography
Isobel Dixon is a director of the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency where she represents writers from around the world. Her interests are wide-ranging and her clients' work includes literary fiction, young adult fiction, crime and thrillers, memoir, popular culture, biography, history and current affairs. Her clients have won all the major South African literary awards, and authors on her list have, among others, won the Caine Prize, Commonwealth and PEN Awards, the Barry Award and been shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, the Author's Club First Book Award, and the Booker Prize.
Isobel was born and educated in South Africa, and in Edinburgh where she
completed Masters degrees in English Literature and Applied
Linguistics. She has translated novels from the Afrikaans and her debut poetry collection Weather Eye (Carapace, 2001) won the Sanlam and the Olive Schreiner Prizes in South Africa. Her second collection A Fold in the Map is published by Salt in the UK and Jacana in South Africa, with her new collection The Tempest Prognosticator published by Salt in the UK and Random Umuzi in South Africa.
She is a Frankfurt Book Fair Fellow and often gives workshops on creative writing and agenting and speaks on panels at literary events, to students and to writers' groups.