Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
Author

Poems

How to stay warm in the city english

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Tea for Thabo english

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The Legend of Vera english

Eating for two english

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Grace english

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The rain children english

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The River english

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Excerpt from 'Original skin' english

Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
Author

About

* 17.02.1966, Halfway House, South Africa
lives in: Johannesburg, South Africa

Phillippa Yaa de Villiers was born on February 17, 1966 in Halfway House close to Johannesburg. She studied journalism in Grahamstown and theater in Paris. In the late 1990s she returned to university to earn a degree in dramatics arts, thereby combining her two passions, writing and performance. She also spend some time in Los Angeles, U.S.A., before she returned to settle in Johannesburg.

De Villiers makes her living by working for theatre, teaching and writing for stage and television. As a poet she has performed her poetry all over the world, f. e. in Adelaide, Havana, Birmingham, Durban, Stockholm, London, Berlin and Johannesburg.