Books and writers
Information about the latest books and the people behind them
Melville: Dyer in Coversation with Vladislavi?, 6 October
2014-09-29 Love Books and Wits School of Literature, Language and Media invite you to a conversation between Geoff Dyer and Ivan Vladislavi?.
2014 Ingrid Jonker Prize for English Poetry
2014-09-26 Karin Schimke wins the 2014 Ingrid Jonker Prize for English Poetry
The Image of a Pie: Reflections on Open Book 2014
2014-09-25 "I should have started shedding tears at the beginning of the event, when the woman who is our national treasure, Sindiwe Magona, noticed that we were only a few people in the audience while the whole of South Africa should have been attending."
Sandton: Book Launch, The Rite Stuff
2014-09-25 Pharos Dictionaries and Nedbank invite you to the launch of The Write Stuff, the style guide with a difference.
Interview: Birdseye by Máire Fisher
2014-09-23 "What is particularly exciting is that Birdseye is appealing to a wide range of readers: from my sons and their friends in their twenties, to my father and mother-in-law in their eighties, to middle-aged men and women. I’m so happy about that – I love knowing that Birdseye is crossing all sorts of age boundaries."
Open Book Festival 2014: Programme
2014-09-16 Here is the exciting programme of Open Book Festival 2014: 17–21 September 2014 at the Fugard Theatre.
Cape Town: Launch of Hiking Guides
2014-09-15 The Book Lounge and Tafelberg Publishers invite you to the launch of Mike Lundy's Weekend Trails and Easy Walks on 2 October.
Cape Town: Launch of Rachel's Blue by Jakes Mda
2014-09-09 Join James Woodhouse in conversation with Jakes Mda at the launch of his new book, Rachel's Blue on Thursday, 18 September.
Launch in Kalk Bay: A Man of Good Hope
2014-09-08 Kalk Bay Books and Jonothan Ball invite you to a launch of A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg on 23rd September.
Launch in Kalk Bay: The Keeper
2014-09-08 Kalk Bay Books and Penguin SA invite you to a launch of The Keeper by Marguerite Poland on Wednesday 17 September.
Interview: Balthasar's Gift by Charlotte Otter
2014-09-05 "I grew tired of reading crime novels that began with a sexy corpse."
I am a white South African … apparently
2014-09-05 "My name is Annzra Denita Naidoo. Although my ID defines my race as Indian, I have discovered that I am actually a white South African."
Interview with Brent Meersman of Missing Ink Publishers
2014-09-03"If I have to compromise on how and what I write according to somebody else’s views based on their hunches ... about sales – well, I’d rather not write."
A Reading of Claudius’s "State of the Nation Address" in Hamlet
2014-09-02 Shakespeare Against Apartheid: "Those of us who seek an equitable, just and democratic South Africa ... need to recognise that there is no neutral territory for Shakespeare studies in present-day South Africa."
18th Poetry Africa International Poetry Festival
2014-09-01 The Poetry Africa festival, from 13 to 18 October, brings some of the world’s finest poets and musicians to Durban.
African Library: The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor and Other Stories by Hama Tuma
2014-08-29 "In his author’s note to this text, Hama Tuma declares his belief 'that Ethiopian reality is stranger (and more horrible) than fiction'."
Whoever fears the sea by Justin Fox
2014-08-29 Gerrit Rautenbach reviews this book by an intrepid traveller and travel writer.
The Midlands Literary Festival – a veritable feast
2014-08-28 "The crowds left the festival with smiles on their faces. Many who had planned to attend only some of the Saturday sessions drove all the way back to Howick on Sunday as well, some from a fair distance away."
Queer Movements: Sexual Desire, Space and Home in Damon Galgut’s In a Strange Room and Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow
2014-08-27Writing South Africa Now: Twenty Years On is a graduate conference on South African literature that took place at the University of York, UK, in June 2014. Read Sanja Nivesjö, "Queer Movements: Sexual Desire, Space and Home in Damon Galgut’s In a Strange Room and Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow".
