Litnet

SJ Naudé received the UJ Prize for Literary Translation for his translation of his book Dol heuning into Mad honey. Read his acceptance speech during the prize-giving ceremony in Johannesburg.

Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realise his ambition of a Greater South Africa when the First World War ushered in a final scramble for Africa. He set his sights firmly northward upon the German colonies of South West Africa and East Africa.

"What makes Bronwyn Davids’s story so interesting and engaging a read is the vigour and vividness with which she recreates the ups and downs of life within the circle of her nearest and dearest in and around her Lansdowne family home."

Bargain Books will be giving an extra 20% discount on any South African author’s book for Heritage Day.

Take storytellers, authors, academics, historians and activists; mix in the smell of a Karoo fire, the tinkling of silver on dining tables dressed in white, and a few dogs, and you have summarised the Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée taking place in Cradock from 23 to 25 September 2022. Book now!

Young blood, the gripping coming-of-age novel by Sifiso Mzobe, has been nominated for a 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award! The award honours books by black authors in the categories of debut fiction, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Yet, there is more!

The first 300 entries will receive a free copy of Thérèse Hulme’s book and free refreshments will be provided. The workshops take place in Gqeberha and Somerset East respectively.

You are invited to the book launch on the 7th of September at Exclusive Books in Claremont.

Bargain Books is giving away a copy of The favour by Nora Murphy. You could be the lucky winner, enter now!

The Midlands Literary Festival has become one of the major book events in KwaZulu-Natal. Simply look at the programme to see why! A weekend in the Natal Midlands is a wonderful way to recharge. Do it for yourself.

"Chat to one of our helpful booksellers. We can order titles in and source books from many sources. Sometimes it feels like we conjure up books from magical places and we feel like wizards, although Book Wizard is not yet an official job title."

Get your copy of The Elephants of Thula Thula by Françoise Malby-Anthony from any Bargain Books for only R329! Save R30 and you could win a trip for 2 to the Thula Thula Reserve.

"Men don’t cry is her fourth novel and the hilarious moments do not disguise the poignance of what is at heart a family tragedy, exploring the inevitable generational cultural split in that sector of society in which parental values and cultural preferences are all too often abandoned and disrespected by their offspring, who wish to 'make it' in the setting of an economically and educationally extremely different setting from the one in which their parents were raised and attained maturity."

Don’t upset ooMalume! captures the essence of Xhosa heritage and culture, and explores different aspects of village life.

"This book can be categorised as a dictionary of Xhosa Weltanschauung, a comprehensive conception and apprehension of a mode of life that has been transferred by experience through the centuries from the ancient of times."

"Lategan also shares moments of beauty, happiness and warmth in a narrative that is insightful, ironic, humorous and compassionate. And it’s a page-turner."

"I invite you to get your mind around reading this book. There is a lot to learn from it."

"In this hauntingly beautiful volume of poetry, Makhanya chronicles the all too familiar, universal experience of the dysfunctional family. However, My father’s blazer quickly transitions to a wider family, that of the South African people, Africa – and mankind."

PEN International is deeply shocked and appalled to learn that former PEN America President and renowned writer, Salman Rushdie, was attacked today just before giving a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. | PEN Afrikaans se bestuur onderskryf hierdie stellinginname deur PEN International. PEN Afrikaans is ’n deel van én deel die waardes van internasionale PEN-sentrums.

"The man who loved crocodile tamers is a strongly stitched patchwork of events in the life of Paddy Dowling, Finuala Dowling’s father, interspersed with extracts from the 'writer’s' personal diary."