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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
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
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
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."
Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Cat Hellisen
2013-05-15 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Cat Hellisen about science and speculative fiction.
Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Lauren Beukes
2013-05-15 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Lauren Beukes about science and speculative fiction.
Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Karen Jayes
2013-05-15 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Karen Jayes about science and specultive fiction
Mens of monster – ontbyt agter tralies
2013-05-14 Nie net ondersoek LAPA Uitgewers die psige van die misdadiger met hul publikasie Mens of monster nie, hul eet ook ontbyt sáám met gevangenes. In die tronk.
LitNet-leeskeuses: Dinsdag 14 Mei 2013
2013-05-14 Dan Brown se Inferno nou op die rakke, Dansende Digtersfees-verslag en Mo Yan vra om uitgelos te word.
Frank Ramsey, 'n verskietende ster
2013-05-14 "Party mense leef lank en bring min of niks nie tot stand. Ten spyte van sy kort lewe, oefen Ramsey steeds positiewe invloed uit."
Eye of the Firestorm: Naledi se boekbekendstelling
2013-05-14 Hoe vóél dit om in 'n storm te wees? Een waar mens om jou lewe vrees en waar mens terselfdertyd veg teen 'n sisteem? Afgetrede generaal-majoor Roland de Vries het 'n boek hieroor geskryf. Kyk foto’s van die bekendstelling.
Vertel ons jóú Grensoorlogstorie – wenners aangekondig!
2013-05-14 Jy dink die Grensoorlog (1966–1989) is al jare lank verby? Die Grensoorlog het met baie van ons gebeur, al het dit nie ons almal se pad gekruis nie. Skryf vir ons jou storie.
LitNet-leeskeuses: Maandag 13 Mei 2013
2013-05-13 Chrizane se leeskeuses vir die dag: Maandag 13 Mei 2013
Book launch: The Verwoerd who Toyi-Toyied
2013-05-13 Tafelberg and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of The Verwoerd who Toyi-Toyied by Melanie Verwoerd
Book launch: An Exceptionally Simple Theory (Of absolutely everything)
2013-05-13 Kwela Books and The Book Lounge invite you to join Lynda Gilfillan in conversation with Mark Winkler bout his debut novel.
LitNet-leeskeuses: Vrydag 10 Mei 2013
2013-05-10 Chrizane se leeskeuses vir die dag: Vrydag 10 Mei 2013
Die AA tot OE van seks – foto's van die boekbekendstelling
2013-05-10 Riette Rust se boek Die AA tot OE van seks is op 8 Mei 2013 in Tygervallei bekendgestel. Izak de Vries het foto's geneem.