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.
Reader's review: London Cape Town Joburg by Zukiswa Wanner
2014-06-23 "Three places and many heartbreaks in this superb novel." Jonathan Amid shares his thoughts on this book by Zukiswa Wanner.
Interview: Rita Barnard on The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela
2014-06-19 "How could we avoid being overtaken by history?"
Penumbra by Songeziwe Mahlangu
2014-06-11 Read Jonathan Amid's review of this <em>Sunday Times</em> Award nominee.
The cutting room by Mary Watson
2014-05-20 Read Jonathan Amid's review of this book, published by Penguin SA.
Moord en roof: In die kop van ’n baasspeurder deur Albert Blake
2014-05-02 Problematiese teks oor “baasspeurder” Charles Miller getuig van teenstrydige impulse
Tugging towards discovery
2014-03-10 Mark Winkler's An Exceptionally Simple Theory (of Absolutely Everything) is “an intensely absorbing and unapologetically apolitical tale”.
Bloody Satisfied – edited by Joanne Hichens
2014-01-24 “Five years later, in 2013, Hichens has once again edited and collected various storytelling voices under the title Bloody Satisfied: short.sharp.stories. The collection is the inaugural anthology produced in conjunction with the National Arts Festival. Will you be bloody satisfied after reading these stories?”
What Hidden Lies: Crime from up close
2014-01-10 "In Greek mythology, Persephone is the queen of the underworld. In the brilliant debut novel by celebrated scriptwriter and script editor Michelle Rowe, detective Persephone (Persy) Jonas ... is the plucky young woman tasked with navigating the underworld of a community where little is as it appears."
Reader's review: Black Widow Society
2014-01-03 "If anyone dared to say that the burgeoning South African crime fiction scene was light on inventiveness, over-politicised, almost exclusively cornered by Cape writers and lacking in contributions from black female writers, then Angela Makholwa offers a decidedly tart response with her latest novel, Black Widow Society."
The Spiral House by Claire Robertson
2014-01-03 “Claire Robertson’s extensively researched debut novel, The Spiral House, comes after thirty years spent working as a journalist. The novel has garnered praise from various quarters, unsurprisingly, since it seems to engage every nerve and fibre of one’s body and mind, so absorbing is its arc.”
Wenkbrou deur Deborah Steinmair
2014-01-03 “Hierdie is ‘n veelvlakkige roman wat behoorlik die wenkbroue laat lig.”