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"The promise is a major achievement, fully deserving its place on the Man Booker Prize longlist."

"I write young adult fiction because firstly, I've always been a fan of YA books and secondly, I am a high school teacher so I spend my days with teenagers."

"I have dreamt of this day for over a decade. Despite the numerous obstacles we faced putting this bid together, the planets seem to have aligned and in little over three months time we will know whether our bid to Unesco has been successful."

Join us as we celebrate the launch of Mother Earth, Mother Africa & missions on 26 July. The editors, Seblewengel Daniel, Mmapula Diana Kebaneilwe and Angeline Savala, will speak to Christina Landman, Beverley Haddad, Musa Wenkosi Dube and Esther Mombo about this important publication.

Twenty educators will participate and enact an innovative fusion of Creative Arts and Life Skills during a two-day think-tank in Cradock at the end of July – a bold moment in local education history. This event will provide a curtain-raiser to the 2021 Karoo Writers Festival, taking place from 28 to 31 July 2021.

In this second episode of David Attwell’s monthly podcast, Full particulars, David hosts Elleke Boehmer and Carrol Clarkson in discussion of the South as a place of literary imagining. Guest appearance by Antjie Krog.  

Stellenbosch University and African Sun Media invite you to the online launch of Evoking transformation: Visual redress at Stellenbosch University on 27 July 2021.

Stellenbosch University and African Sun Media invite you to the online book launch of Empowering novice academics for student success: Wearing different hats on 14 July 2021.

"With this festival, I wanted to honour the unloved writers. For writers of children’s literature are, in a sense, the unloved ones. They never get the credit they deserve."

"An engrossing reading experience awaits readers, who will find in Dogstar rising an enlightening, bracing and gripping way of spending the leisure time that lockdown restrictions on social gatherings have made available. Readers can also follow it up by getting hold of the five other texts in this series."

In this first episode of David Attwell's monthly podcast, Full particulars, David hosts Zoë Wicomb reading from her new novel, Still life (Umuzi, 2020) and discusses historical (meta)fiction with Andrew van der Vlies, professor of English at the University of Adelaide.

In this interview, Ron Irwin interviews author Lynn Joffe, Wanda’s creator, and discovers not only the myriad of literary references that Wanda confronts, but also the many Jewish traditions and beliefs that Wanda thumbs her nose at. Listen to the podcast here.

"The theme and subthemes of the book carry the challenges (obstacles, discouragement, trauma and abuse, among others) that a human being may face, and how to overcome them ..."

"Accounts of imprisonment and torture under apartheid all too readily serve narrow political ends – but this book is the exception which proves the old rule. As such, this story will need to do much heavy lifting on that never-ending South African agenda of understanding and its twin, forgiveness."

"As citizens we need to start paying attention to our families and community members. We all need to care enough to report crimes, even if it is uncomfortable to do so."

"Well, HIV/AIDS has plagued South Africans for decades now and claimed many lives, but every time people speak about the virus, they always talk about the promiscuous/irresponsible adult and never about the kid who was born with it; I had a burning desire to tell a tale of a kid who maternally contracts the virus and has no say in the matter."

Imbali Academic Publishers and Graffiti Books invite you to the online launch of Portaits of pain by Melanie Moen. Karin Schimke will be in conversation to her.

The 2021 AKO Caine Prize shortlist has been announced, revealing five stories of “impressive craft and intelligent language”, chosen from a multitude of submissions spanning over 22 countries.

"Coupled with the stunning photography of Proust, one the country’s foremost architectural and landscape photographers, the narrative provides for an interesting guide throughout the book."

"I was acutely aware of the sensitivities of this story, and my approach with the extended Langenhoven family was cautious."