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Rayda Jacobs

Rayda Jacobs was a South African film director, writer and filmmaker (1947–2024). She was born at Cape Town and died at Toronto.

Overview

Born at Cape Town in 1947, died at Toronto in 2024.

Catalogued works

8 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Open Library. Their recorded dates run from 1996 to 2004.

The Middle Children. The Mecca diaries. Postcards from South Africa. Sachs Street. The slave book, dated 1998. Eyes of the sky, dated 1996. Confessions of a gambler, dated 2004. Joonie.

Literature

5 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Jacobs, Rayda, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. Jacobs, Rayda: Confessions of a Gambler, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. Longing for Love: Eros and National Belonging in Three Novels by Rayda Jacobs, Journal for Islamic Studies, 2023. Narrating Memory: Rayda Jacobs, Yvette Christiansë and André Brink and the New Slave Narrative, Journal of the African Literature Association, 2016. A Postmodern Reading of Islamic Fiction: Muslim Faith and the Challenges of Modernity in Rayda Jacobs’ Confessions of a Gambler, Afrosciences antiquity sunu xalaat, 2025.

Naming and authority record

This heading is established in VIAF (46981034). Those registers additionally record the forms Rayda Jacobs 1947-2024, Rayda Jacobs South African writer and film-maker, Rayda Jacobs 1947- and Rayda Jacobs, (1947–2024) dél-afrikai író, filmkészítő.

In detail

the recorded working language is English.

Distinctions recorded are The Sunday Times Fiction Prize.

Chronology

  1. 1947Rayda Jacobs born at Cape Town.
  2. 1996Eyes of the sky.
  3. 1998The slave book.
  4. 2024Rayda Jacobs died at Toronto.

Sources

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  • reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

    “Rayda Jacobs”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  • reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q2134008: Rayda Jacobs

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