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FLF 2013: Sex and violence

Louis Roux 2013-05-21 “Does patriarchy lead to sexual violence, or are submissive or absent mothers also at fault?” this panel was headlined.

Leslie Mitchell: Maurice Bowra

Johannes Comestor 2013-05-21 "Bowra het lojaliteit en toewyding van sy dissipels verwag en dat hulle vry van aandagafleiers soos die huwelik moet wees."

Way back home – a commendable effort

Karabo Kgoleng Books and writers 2013-05-21

"South African writing is aching to evolve beyond narratives about our painful past and how it continues to haunt us."

Te veel én te min in dié roman

Marius Crous 2013-05-21 "Venter is ’n fyn stilis en kan baie oorspronklik wees in sy skryfwerk, maar Wolf, wolf is die roman van die verspeelde kanse."

’n Nuwe wildernis – die stryd gaan voort

Jaco Fouché 2013-05-21 "Dit sal tot baie spreek: oudsoldate (van die SAW sowel as die struggle), jong mans, heldhaftiges sowel as meer skroomvallige lede van die manlike spesie, en almal wat in oorlog, mans en geweld belangstel."

FLF 2013: Dystopia in science fiction

Tembi Charles 2013-05-21 "After the hour-long discussion I am convinced by Rachel Zadok that '[F]iction creates empathy.' Issues close to my heart, such as patriarchy and gender-based violence, are given room in these stories."

FLF 2013: The Suitcase under the Bed

Ean Barnard 2013-05-21 You’ve got a story to tell. So what now?

Chris van Wyk and Paul Geraghty do the “Power of Horowitz”

Melanie du Toit Academic research 2013-05-21

“Sorry about not being Horowitz. Let’s just say I’m the ‘horror’ part of it,” opened Paul Geraghty to ripples of laughter in the school hall in Franschhoek.

Boekbekendstelling: Die SAW in die Grensoorlog 1966–1989

Anika Marais 2013-05-21 "Die bekende joernalis en historikus Leopold Scholtz wou ’n 'klomp misverstande' oor die Grensoorlog in sy nuwe boek uit die weg ruim."

Off the Wall Poetry Session 20 May: Isobel Dixon

2013-05-20 Our guest poet this week is the acclaimed and multi-award-winning poet Isobel Dixon.

The 2013 Sunday Times Literary Awards in association with CNA shortlist announcement

2013-05-20 Ten books were shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award and the Sunday Times Fiction Prize at the 2013 Sunday Times Literary Awards in association with CNA.

Ontwei: A poem by Antjie Krog to her mother

Chrizane Geldenhuys 2013-05-20 Antjie Krog and Ingrid de Kok shared poems about the stars, love, children and death during an intimate reading at this year's Franschhoek Literary Festival.

Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Rachel Zadok

Elzette Steenkamp, Rachel Zadok 2013-05-17 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Rachel Zadok (author of Sister Sister) about science and speculative fiction.

Booktown Richmond’s 7th Anniversary

2013-05-15 JM Coetzee/Nobel Laureates and Athol Fugard Festivals: May 23-25, 2013.

The Shining Girls – an adeptly crafted spine-tingler

Kayang Gagiano 2013-05-15 "Beukes’s painstaking historical research delivers up authentic, yet slightly clichéd renderings of the eras she chooses to highlight – from the grunge-era 1990s, to the paranoid spectre of McCarthyism in the mid-1950s, to the politically disenchanted Nixon-era ‘70s, and so on."