| Arja Salafranca was born in Spain in 1971, to a Spanish father and a South African mother. She has lived in South Africa since the age of five. In 1993 she received a BA degree in African Literature and Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand. She has had fiction and poetry published in a number of local journals and anthologies. Her first poetry collection, A Life Stripped of Illusions, received the 1994 Sanlam Award for poetry, while a short story, 'Couple on the Beach' was a winner of the same award in 1999 for short fiction. Her second collection of poetry, The Fire in Which We Burn, was published in 2000. Other examples of her short fiction can be found on www.donga.co.za, on M-web's literary site, www.mweb/litnet.co.za the anthologies In the Rapids (Kwela 2001) and in Post Traumatic, Botsotso 2003 among others. Arja has worked for various newspapers in Johannesburg and now edits the Sunday Life supplement in The Sunday Independent. |