Jonathan Amid
Jonathan Amid was in 1986 in Israel gebore. Hy is van kleins af lief vir kuns, musiek, films, stories en boeke en bly die afgelope drie dekades in Stellenbosch, waar hy op skool was en by die Universiteit Stellenbosch geswot het. Hy verwerf ‘n BA in Geesteswetenskappe, en daarna ‘n BA Hons en ‘n Meestersgraad in Engelse Letterkunde (beide cum laude). Hy ruil ongeveer die afgelope dekade die lesingsaal vir die volgehoue uitdaging van voltydse tekspraktisyn (manuskripontwikkeling-, keuring en redigering in Afrikaans en Engels), private skryfkonsultant en vryskutresensent wees. Honderde resensies oor meestal plaaslike fiksie en nie-fiksie verskyn uit sy pen in die dagblaaie en op Netwerk24, op LitNet, Skrop.co.za, en in die nuwe gedaante van die Vrye Weekblad.
Review: The Story of Anna P, as Told by Herself by Penny Busetto
2014-10-02 "How do we find our place in the world if our vision of ourselves is never fully consonant with the self-narratives we would like to believe?"
Onderhoud met Francois Smith: Om Kamphoer te skryf
2014-10-01 "Kom ek sê maar net dat ek baie lank saam met daardie karakters in daardie motor moes gaan sit, saam met Susan Nell en daardie twee bejaarde mans, en ek moes sit en sit en wag dat iets van daardie situasie tot my deurdring."
Onderhoud: Draalnoot vir ‘n janfiskaal deur Henry Jack Cloete
2014-09-25 Joan Hambidge noem in haar resensie Draalnoot “’n roman wat soos ‘n Playstation-speletjie sy eie reëls neerlê.”
Interview: Birdseye by Máire Fisher
2014-09-23 "What is particularly exciting is that Birdseye is appealing to a wide range of readers: from my sons and their friends in their twenties, to my father and mother-in-law in their eighties, to middle-aged men and women. I’m so happy about that – I love knowing that Birdseye is crossing all sorts of age boundaries."
Interview: Balthasar's Gift by Charlotte Otter
2014-09-05 "I grew tired of reading crime novels that began with a sexy corpse."
Interview with Brent Meersman of Missing Ink Publishers
2014-09-03"If I have to compromise on how and what I write according to somebody else’s views based on their hunches ... about sales – well, I’d rather not write."
Interview: Garden of Dreams by Melissa Siebert
2014-08-18 Melissa Siebert discusses her debut novel with Jonathan Amid.
Interview: I See You by Ishtiyaq Shukri
2014-08-13 "I am the people I know, the books I have read, the countries in which I have lived – and very nearly died. In January I visited the Yemeni island of Socotra. It is truly the most remarkable place I’ve even been to."
Biebouw-resensie: Donker spoor deur Martin Steyn
2014-08-07"Steyn se geslypte styl – realisties maar nie kil of afsydig nie – asook sy oog vir besonderhede, sy ystergreep op die klein sowel as groot oomblikke van die vertelkuns, is verblydend. Hier voer 'showing' oor 'telling' die botoon."
Overview: Man Booker Prize longlist 2014
2014-07-31 "Complete whitewash for African writers as Americans join the Man Booker Prize longlist party," writes Jonathan Amid.
Reader's review: Paradise by Greg Lazarus
2014-07-30 "Expertly edited by the superb Henrietta Rose-Innes, these four voices, channelled through the authorial lens of Greg Lazarus, offer an almost musical sense of harmony and melody in a novel that hits subtle notes, tugs at the heartstrings, alternates between moments of rich light and shade, and ultimately leaves the reader with a huge grin and an urge to say 'More, more!'"
Interview: London Cape Town Joburg
2014-07-29 Jonathan Amid interviews Zukiswa Wanner about London Cape Town Joburg.
Biebouw-resensie: Waar boosheid broei deur Peet Venter
2014-07-23 "Boosheid steeds broeiend," meen Jonathan Amid in sy resensie van dié boek.
