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"Bongani Ngqulunga received the Alan Paton award for non-fiction for The Man Who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme, while Harry Kalmer was named the recipient of the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize for A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg."

You are invited to the launch of The Summit Syndrome on 23 June in Stellenbosch. The author, Owen Dean, will be in conversation with Cobus Jooste.

"Mr Ramaphosa’s call, 'Send me', has made us perk up our ears. Nothing will ensure the wholehearted co-operation of the Afrikaans-speaking community with his presidency more than offering a fixed, secure and sustainable place for Afrikaans at both school and university level."

Media24 Books Literary Prizes: The Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English fiction was awarded to Ken Barris for The Life of Worm & Other Misconceptions. Read the motivations for the winning novel as well as the other finalists.

Media24 Books Literary Prizes: The Recht Malan Prize for Nonfiction was awarded to Jacques Pauw for The President's Keepers. Read the motivations for the winning book as well as the other finalists.

Media24 Boeke-pryse: Die MER-prys vir geïllustreerde kinderboeke is vanjaar aan Rosamund Haden en Tony Pinchuck vir The All Africa Wildlife Express toegeken. Lees hier die motiverings vir die wenboek en ander finaliste.

"Winging it illuminates the entire undertaking of what an egg donation, IVF, surrogacy, and solo parenting entails. None of it is for the faint-hearted."

You are invited to the launch of You have to be gay to know God on 26 June in Johannesburg.

"The aim is to fund the research and writing of an original work of nonfiction on a subject of importance in the South African context, irrespective of genre. The closing date for entries is 31 July 2018."

"I forecast that it will take just one steadfast learner, backed by a half-decent legal team, to expose the dress and conduct code for what it is: a discriminatory house of cards that will tumble once subjected to serious scrutiny."

"Out of all the great accomplishments in De Villiers’s career that reached universal proportions, the historical medical aspects of the South African Anglo-Boer War stand out as some of the supreme achievements of this genius and intellectual giant."

You are invited to the launch of The Coroner's Wife on 20 June in Newlands, where Joan Hambidge will be in conversation with the publisher, Michèle Betty. The Coroner's Wife is a selection of the poems of Joan Hambidge in translation.

"Reading a biography such as Petrovna Metelerkamp’s Ingrid Jonker: ’n biografie provides a fine example of what I am talking about. This is a nice fat book, chock-full of stories and reported data about the enigma that is Ingrid Jonker. Apart from anything else, it is clear that Metelerkamp’s 437-page tome is the product of many years of unstinting work ..."

"It’s a beautifully shot, warm and fuzzy love letter to Joburg. Joburg is, as a matter of fact, the strongest and most interesting character in the movie. The rest pale in comparison, unfortunately."

You are invited to the launch of Who will rule in 2019? on 2 June in Stellenbosch, where the author, Jan-Jan Joubert, will be in conversation with Tony Leon.

Read a poem by Heidi Henning.

"Everything is spiraling, feathery"

Colour me yellow by Thuli Nhlapo was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton award 2018. Join the celebration on 2 June in Newtown, Johannesburg.

"Following a geographical point of departure, Afrikaans is an African language that originated here and reflects the name of the continent (the only language in Africa having this characteristic)."

"Instead of exploring new ideas, new fertile ground, the familiar Star wars concepts were simply reused."