Klara du Plessis’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro South African-Canadian poet
Is Writer
From South Africa
Canada
Type Literature
Gender female

Klara du Plessis is a South African-Canadian poet, who writes in both English and Afrikaans. Her debut poetry collection Ekke won the Pat Lowther Award, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, in 2019.

She was born in Montreal, but raised predominantly in Bloemfontein, South Africa. She is currently a graduate student at Montreal’s Concordia University, and is the editor of the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s online literary journal Carte Blanche.

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