凯奥拉佩策·考斯尔(Keorapetse Kgositsile),南非国家桂冠诗人,生于1938年,幼年随母亲奔走于马佛京和约翰内斯堡两地。年轻时加入非国大(African National Congress),在南非著名左翼作家拉·古玛(Alex La Guma)和女共产党员鲁斯·弗斯特(Ruth First)领导下开始记者生涯。1961年沙佩维尔屠杀事件后流亡海外。他的创作成熟于在美国生活期间。1962-76年在美国学习并任教,深入参与美国黑人争取民权斗争和黑人艺术复兴活动,成为南非在美国的代表性诗人,而他的介入也使 Keorapetse Kgositsile, laureate poet of South Africa, was born in 1938 and ran with his mother in two places, Mufkin and Johannesburg. Joined the African National Congress as a youth, starting as a journalist under the leadership of South African famous leftist Alex La Guma and female Communist Ruth First. Exiled to overseas after the 1961 Chapeville massacre. His writing matures during his American life. From 1962 to 1976, he studied and taught in the United States, participating deeply in the Blacks’ struggle for civil rights and the revival of black arts in South Africa, and became South Africa’s representative poet in the United States. His intervention also enabled