Bessie Head

Born: 1937

Died: 1986

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Born: 1937

Died: 1986

Books by Bessie Head (50 max)

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Native Life in South Africa: Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion

1910

Sol T. Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, Brian Willan, Bessie Head

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When Rain Clouds Gather: African Writers

1991

Bessie Head

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Maru

1988

Bessie Head

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A question of power

1987

Bessie Head

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The collector of treasures: and other Botswana village tales

1992

Bessie Head

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Tales of tenderness and power

1989

Bessie Head

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African short stories

1985

Chinua Achebe, C. L. Innes, Ousmane Sembène, Ama Ata Aidoo, Odun Balogun, David Owoyele, Jomo Kenyatta, Grace Ogot, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Leonard Kibera, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, Alifa Rifaat, Tayeb Salih, Mohammed El-Bisatie, B L Honwana, Nadine Gordimer, Ahmed Essop, Dambudzo Marechera, Es'kia Mphahlele, Bessie Head, Mafika Pascal Gwala

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Prentice Hall Literature: World Masterpieces

1991

Burton Beers, Anna Ahkmatova, Dante Alighieri, Yehuda Amichai, Margaret Atwood, Basho, Charles Baudelaire, Giovanni Boccaccio, Heinrich Böll, Jorge Luis Borges, Buson Yosa, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, A. Chekhov, Ch'ien T'ao, To Li Chien, Po Chu-i, Colette, Confucius, Julio Cortázar, Rubén Darío, Isak Dinesen, Jean de La Fontaine, Marie de France, Tu Fu, Federico García Lorca, Gabriel García Márquez, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, G Gogol, Günter Grass, Bessie Head, Heinrich Heine, Hitomaro Kakinomoto, Homer Homer, Lu Hsun, Victor Hugo, Henrik Ibsen, Kobayashi, Hideo, Franz Kafka, Yoshida Kenko, Omar Khayyam, Komachi Ono, Pär Lagerkvist, Stanisław Lem, Doris Lessing, Primo Levi, Niccolò Machiavelli, Najib Mahfouz, Thomas Mann, Christopher Marlowe, Guy de Maupassant, Czesław Miłosz, John Milton, Gabriela Mistral, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Pablo Neruda, Ōgai Mōri, Ovid, Blaise Pascal, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Octavio Paz, Luigi Pirandello, Plato n, Pliny, Li Po, A Pushkin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Manuel Rojas, Pierre de Ronsard, William Shakespeare, Sei Shōnagon, A. Solzhenitsyn, Sophocles, Wole Soyinka, Jonathan Swift, Rabindranath Tagore, L Tolstoy, Toshiyori Minamoto, Chrétien de Troyes, Tsurayuki Ki, Pak, Tu-jin, Lao-Tze, Paul Valéry, François Villon, Nguyen Thi Vinh, Virgil, Andrei Vosnesensky, Derek Walcott, Wang, Wei, William Wordsworth, Yasunari Kawabata, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

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Serowe, village of the rain wind

2008

Bessie Head

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To stir the heart

2007

Bessie Head, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

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A bewitched crossroad: an African saga

1984

Bessie Head

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A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

1991

Bessie Head

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When Rain Clouds Gather and Maru

2010

Bessie Head, Helen Oyeyemi

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Between the lines: interviews with Bessie Head, Sheila Roberts, Ellen Kuzwayo, Miriam Tlali

1989

Bessie Head, Craig MacKenzie, Cherry Clayton

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A woman alone: autobiographical writings

1990

Bessie Head

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The cardinals, with meditations and stories

1993

Bessie Head

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The lovers

1994

Bessie Head

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The Cardinals

1995

Bessie Head

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Baratani

1999

Bessie Head

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Botshelo

1999

Bessie Head

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Mophutha Matlotlo

1999

Bessie Head

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Life (Well Known Stories)

2002

Bessie Head

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La Coleccionista de Tesoros

2004

Bessie Head

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A woman alone: autobiographical writings

2007

Bessie Head

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The lovers a collection of short stories

2011

Bessie Head

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Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: All My Seven Faces

2020

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Raphaela Platow, Bessie Head, Valentine Umansky, Elvira Dyangani Ose