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Internationally popular writer Deon Meyer will take a break from filming next week for a flying visit to Cradock. His trip is timed for the launch of a new holistic arts town project which encompasses the Schreiner Karoo Writers Festival (SKWF) taking place on 22 and 23 October 2021.

"It is important for us to learn as much as we can of these long-forgotten societies – how they were organised and what happened to them before Africa was divided up by colonial powers into its present form."

Infused with rhythm and melody, Zakes Mda’s new novel invites you to travel from Lesotho’s Mountain Kingdom to the City of Gold through the history of Famo.

Human and Rousseau and Exclusive Books invite you to join the launch via online webinar of Hearty home food.

"An island is an ethically driven and formally accomplished novel."

Captain Ben Booysen, senior investigating officer in the Krugersdorp murders on which the Showmax documentary Devilsdorp was based, writes: "Please note that no investigating officer follows the same route as another one, and my approach I have mentioned does not mean the investigators therefore did something wrong. It is rather that my methodology in identifying the suspect would have been different."

In this deeply personal book, Hlumelo Biko, who was born of Steve and Mamphela’s union, movingly recounts his parents’ love story and how the BCM’s message of black self-love and self-reliance helped to change the course of South African history.

How do we celebrate Heritage Day (24 September) in an unsettled time? In the face of a pandemic, ideas of identity seem as superfluous and dangerous as flames on Braai Day. Simon van Schalkwyk’s debut collection, Transcontinental delay, is the most fitting recommendation in Heritage Month.

The shortlist for the 2021 Kendeka Prize for African Literature has been announced today.

Damon Galgut's latest novel, The Promise, has been shortlisted for one of the world's most prestigious literary prizes, the Booker Prize. The announcement was made during an online event on Tuesday evening.

The University of Johannesburg is pleased to announce the winners of the following three newly instated prizes: UJ Prize for Creative Writing in isiZulu, UJ Prize for Creative Writing in Sesotho sa Leboa and the UJ Prize for Literary Translation.

"Whether Jennings’ name appears on the shortlist that will be announced in London tomorrow afternoon or not, one can only hope that her longlisting will have changed the trajectory of her career: that she will never again have to make out a case to be published. And never again be published in print runs of only 500."

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is pleased to announce the shortlists for the following three newly instated prizes: UJ Prize for Creative Writing in isiZulu, UJ Prize for Creative Writing in Sesotho sa Leboa, and the UJ Prize for Literary Translation.

"Since the first democratic elections in 1994, no party has held on to the third position in consecutive elections. Smaller political parties have always alternated in this position. Because it has claimed this spot, the only way up for the EFF must be to depose the DA and become the official opposition."

Tracy Going will be in conversation with Terry Angelos on Monday 20 September 2021 at 18:00.

"If you wish to destroy the life you know, expose some corrupt activities."

The longlist for the 2021 Kendeka Prize for African Literature has been announced on Wednesday, the 1^st  of September 2021.

"Compelling and written with tenderness and fury, this beautiful novel will resonate in readers’ minds with its clarity of vision, empathy and depth of insight. It is likely to become a classic for its undeniable literary stature."

"This is a fascinating book. But ultimately it is the victim of its own ego. It attempts too much and provides only a superficial gloss of the events that continue to intrigue and unsettle us as a nation."

In this episode of his monthly podcast David Attwell talks to Margie Orford about crime writing and her Clare Hart series of crime novels, which ended with the publication of Water Music in 2013.