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"Omdat generatiewe KI op taal gebou is, is dit nie vreemd dat skryfwerk een van die eerste beroepe is waaruit gate gehap word nie."

"Travel has always felt beyond my means, but I’m a freelance writer, editor and translator, so in theory I could live and work anywhere I want. The notion took hold, in spite of all the reasons why it should be impossible, and I pursued ways of living a less structured, planned and predictable life for a few months."

"Prizes like these highlight the noblest ambition of translation: to humanise."

"Metelerkamp is careful not to turn her biography into an abject lesson on the ravages of a patriarchal society on individual lives. She steers through her complex subject with a careful and steady rudder – a class journalistic act."

"On a day-to-day basis, poems rush by me and through me all the time, and only now and again do I have the time to snatch them by their slippery tails and nail them to the page."

"After all, there’s a significant service to humanity in spending time doing no harm. While you’re writing your poem, there’s one less scoundrel in the world." 

"I write every day, all day. I stop at five pm for a couple of hours to walk the dogs. I don’t write down ideas for new projects. The good ones tend to stick; the others go to the great idea landfill in the sky."

"Annas has taken some pretty evident elements of the South African reality and mixed them into a breath-stopping brew: a wall, some 'intruders', a tinderbox socio-political milieu and a few overinflated egos that concern themselves almost exclusively with obsessively safeguarding the privilege contained within the wall."

"Poetry slam sessions, says d’Abdon, are places where young people can 'voice their dissatisfaction, channel their anger and heal'."

"[Y]es, just about anyone can write, often must write – it’s an urge, a need. Anyone can put words on paper to give expression to something."

"Hierdie naweek gaan oor hoe om metafore raak te sien en uit te buit om jou skryfwerk lewe te gee, en dit gaan ook net oor skryf."

"Hierdie verhaal is nie, kom ‘n mens agter, ‘n elegie aan ‘n verlore minnaar nie, maar ‘n elegie aan ‘n self wat soek geraak het agter skanse wat begin as blote mure maar mettertyd begin inkelder."

"She still scratches at me. I wish I could interview her." – Karin Schimke, journalist and poet, on her translation of some remarkable love letters.

On UWC Creates and the lack of literary translations from and into other indigenous languages.

Karin  Schimke looks at who's who in the internationally flavoured programme at this  weekend's Franschhoek Literary Festival.