Litnet

"Holiday has collected and collated significant, sometimes surprising, and always powerful glimmers of wisdom, reminding his readers that it is our duty to view ourselves as indefatigable readers and archivists of personal wisdom."

"What you can and should read him for are the myriad ways in which he reminds us of our responsibility and duty to question what we think we know."

"Intermezzo’s quieter wisdom feels unforced and unhurried – and all the more real and tangible for it."

"Ultimately, this collection is about luck, about how your place in the world is more than just a cosmic accident, and about how you can never, ever outrun your history or fate."

"Don’t expect even a sliver of sensationalist true crime, well-worn clichés that aren’t turned inside out, or gratuitous violence for its own sake. This is resolutely no pornographic exhibition of suffering, and the scheming that does happen is in keeping with the nature and motivation of the characters involved."

"Flesh, Booker winner, strips away its surface, only to reveal astonishing depths below."

"Cassim writes as an insider about local Indian people, about community, about custom and ritual, and about the precarious comforts and sometimes deeply uncomfortable business of being part of a family. You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends, and 'found family' is certainly a thing."

"Sien Heks dan as ’n lekkerleesboek met ’n kragtige kinkel; ’n moderne fabel waar die boodskap en die boodskapper van belang is, maar wat veel dieper strek as wie die hardste en aanhoudendste kan skree."

"Boeksemdais. Nooit die finale woord of afsluiting oor die saak nie; eerder die totstandkoming, oor tyd, van nuwe voetpaadjies, proesels van ’n nuwe umamigeur."

"Die whodunit, die trajek van duisterheid en onsekerheid na helderheid, klarigheid en uitsluitsel, na ondubbelsinnige antwoorde, word met ’n 'konseptuele kinkel' moontlik na ’n ander bestemming geneem."

"With a significant shift away from political 'doom and gloom' post-Covid in 2023 and a far more balanced, expansive and exciting programme focusing anew on all things Literary, the festival won me over once more."

Die Oude Leeskamer Skrywersaande bring diverse en veeltalige skrywers bymekaar om toeganklike dog prikkelende gesprekke vir die publiek oop te stel. Die eerste gesprek in die reeks het die bekroonde romansiers en vertalers Michiel Heyns en Fanie Naudé betrek om onder andere die romankuns, identiteitspolitiek in fiksie, die vraagstuk van grense in die plaaslike letterkunde, hul proses en die vraagstuk van vertaling aan te spreek.

"Hierdie stemme is vars, intelligent, wys, vindingryk en beleë met stories wat werklik die verbeelding aangryp."

"Should a lack of direct, unmediated experience mean that you automatically have to sit back and shut up? Where to after the listening part of the journey or contract has been fulfilled?"

"Vin se verhaal is eenvoudig onvergeetlik; Botha se woorde is vlamme op water."