Biography
Niamh Ahern is a writer, editor, and postgraduate student currently reading for a DPhil in English. She completed a BA (Music, Psychology, and Afrikaans) and BA(Hons) in Afrikaans at the University of Cape Town as well an MSt (World Literatures in English) at the University of Oxford. Her Honours degree was supported by a Merit Bursary from the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns and the Prof JJ Smith Scholarship from UCT's Afrikaans and Netherlandic Studies Section.
Niamh is interested in the purpose of literature across languages, nations, and literary systems. Her literary pursuits extend to non-academic settings. She has organised departmental book collections, built a website for the Dutch Library of Cape Town, and currently serves as the Production Editor of New Contrast, one of South Africa’s oldest literary journals.