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Glen Retief is a South African writer who won a Lambda Literary Award in 2012 for his memoir The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood.The Jack Bank was also an Africa Book Club Book of 2011. He currently lives in Pretoria South Africa with his husband, American performance artist and Bible scholar Peterson Toscano, and teaches English literature and creative writing at Susquehanna University.

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