Biography
Isobel Dixon joined Blake Friedmann in 1995 and represents writers from around the world, including a number of prominent South African authors. 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.
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 poetry collection WEATHER EYE (Carapace, 2001), won the Sanlam Prize and the Olive Schreiner Award in South Africa. Her new collection A FOLD IN THE MAP is published by Salt in the UK and Jacana in South Africa (November 2007).
She is a Frankfurt Book Fair Fellow and often speaks on panels at literary events and to writers' groups.