Peter Horn Author

Peter Horn was previously Professor of German at the University of Cape Town and since his retirement is Honorary Professorial Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He has published seven volumes of poetry, including Poems 1964-1990 (1991), An Axe in the Ice (1992), The Rivers that Connect Us to the Past (1996); two volumes of short stories, My Voice is under control now (1999) and Walking the Road of Death (2014); and one volume of essays, Writing my Reading (1994). He has also published translations of South African poetry: Kap der Guten Hoffnung. Gedichte aus dem Südafrikanischen Widerstand (1980). In addition, he has published widely on German literature, including books on Kleist, Hölderlin, Celan and Rilke.