SA Festival of Children’s Literature: an interview with Darryl David
2022-05-19"I believe it may well turn out to be my most important book festival."
Adam Small-fees op Saterdag 26 Februarie 2022: ’n onderhoud met Darryl David
2022-02-24"Alle lesings is gratis vir die publiek en vir boekliefhebbers. Natalia da Rocha se vertoning sal egter R50 kos vir haar musikale huldeblyk aan Adam Small."
Madibaland World Literary Festival 2021: Full programme
2021-11-11The Madibaland World Literary Festival takes place from 20 to 28 November 2021. Here is the full programme. Register now! It is free.
Richmond’s BookBedonnerd XIV: An interview with Darryl David
2021-10-28"No tickets needed! All our talks are FREE. We believe our festivalgoers have to travel so far to join us, how can we saddle them with yet another cost."
Stellenbosch bid for Unesco City of Literature status
2021-07-29"I have dreamt of this day for over a decade. Despite the numerous obstacles we faced putting this bid together, the planets seem to have aligned and in little over three months time we will know whether our bid to Unesco has been successful."
The heart of Howick
2021-07-15"Amid the panic for food, though, a strong narrative of the resilience of communities is playing out. We have all seen and heard of communities having to mobilise into security cells to protect their communities. That communities have been forced to do this is nothing short of a disgrace."
Seen elsewhere: NO FOOD to buy in Howick
2021-07-13"All but two of the supermarkets have been looted. And no shops are open. Most people in town are living on milk and bread."
South African Festival of Children’s Literature: an interview with Darryl David
2021-07-02"With this festival, I wanted to honour the unloved writers. For writers of children’s literature are, in a sense, the unloved ones. They never get the credit they deserve."
The Madibaland World Literary Festival: an interview with Darryl David
2020-11-19"We may be divided by oceans. We may be divided by time zones, and circumstances, and more. But we are linked by stories, by our desire to dialogue – and I think this festival will be the perfect chance to celebrate that."
Programme: Madibaland World Literary Festival 2020
2020-11-19"There has never been a festival quite like the Madibaland World Literary Festival – and you’re invited," says Darryl David, Director of the Madibaland World Literary Festival. Here is the full programme, as provided by Darryl David.
Press release: Madibaland World Literary Festival, 20–30 November 2020
2020-09-03"It’s going to be the festival of the year, beams Darryl David! 'It might very well be the only festival of the year, but boy will it make up for the many that we missed!'"
Racism by the book
2020-06-22"Is Niq saying what I think he is saying? That white judges will choose white winners? And, by implication, black judges will choose black winners? How else is one to interpret his quote, 'But when the judges are white, the people who win will be white'? The judging process is, at the best of times, a highly subjective act, and is not swayed by the race of judges."
The three-letter plague
2020-06-04"This three-letter plague is also responsible for a few strange symptoms. It causes blindness in its followers."
The world’s largest online literary festival
2020-04-16"The coronavirus has turned the world on its head. Every day, I hear echoes of Morgan Freeman’s voice from the movie Deep impact in my head. The coronavirus is indeed a deep impact moment. As an evangelist of the literary arts, I have agonised over what this moment means for us."
Adam Small-fees 2020: ’n onderhoud met Darryl David
2020-02-20"Lank nadat ons dood is, gaan Adam Small in Pniël en die Afrikaanse letterkunde bly lewe."