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FLF 2013: Dystopia in science fiction
2013-05-21 "After the hour-long discussion I am convinced by Rachel Zadok that '[F]iction creates empathy.' Issues close to my heart, such as patriarchy and gender-based violence, are given room in these stories."
Chris van Wyk and Paul Geraghty do the “Power of Horowitz”
2013-05-21“Sorry about not being Horowitz. Let’s just say I’m the ‘horror’ part of it,” opened Paul Geraghty to ripples of laughter in the school hall in Franschhoek.
The 2013 Sunday Times Literary Awards in association with CNA shortlist announcement
2013-05-20 Ten books were shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award and the Sunday Times Fiction Prize at the 2013 Sunday Times Literary Awards in association with CNA.
Ontwei: A poem by Antjie Krog to her mother
2013-05-20 Antjie Krog and Ingrid de Kok shared poems about the stars, love, children and death during an intimate reading at this year's Franschhoek Literary Festival.
Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Rachel Zadok
2013-05-17 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Rachel Zadok (author of Sister Sister) about science and speculative fiction.
The Shining Girls – an adeptly crafted spine-tingler
2013-05-15 "Beukes’s painstaking historical research delivers up authentic, yet slightly clichéd renderings of the eras she chooses to highlight – from the grunge-era 1990s, to the paranoid spectre of McCarthyism in the mid-1950s, to the politically disenchanted Nixon-era ‘70s, and so on."
Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Cat Hellisen
2013-05-15 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Cat Hellisen about science and speculative fiction.
Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Lauren Beukes
2013-05-15 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Lauren Beukes about science and speculative fiction.
Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Karen Jayes
2013-05-15 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Karen Jayes about science and specultive fiction
Bridging gaps with words
2013-05-14 Acclaimed South African poet and literary agent Isobel Dixon works in London, but is currently visiting South Africa for the Franschhoek Literary Festival. Rentia Bartlett-Möhl spoke to her about travelling, displacement, bridging continents and collaboration.
Book launch: Napoleon Bones by Jenny Hobbs
2013-05-06 Umuzi and Novel Books invite you to the launch of Napoleon Bones in Sandton, Johannesburg.
Book Talk: The Disorder of Things at Wits University
2013-05-06 You are invited to a Wits University Press & WiSER Book Talk on The Disorder of Things : A Foucauldian Approach to the Work of Nuruddin Farah. Wednesday 8th May at 6pm-7:30pm.
African Library: Oil on water
2013-05-02 Habila, a poet as well as a prize-winning novelist, has been a journalist in Lagos like the main character (Rufus) of his novel ...
Random House Struik and GetSmarter presents Non-Fiction Story Course
2013-05-02 Random House Struik and GetSmarter, a high?touch online educationompany, are proud to present the Random House Struik Write a Non?Fiction Story course. This course is compiled and facilitated by leading South African author Mike Nicol.
Franschhoek Literêre Fees belowe gróót en nuwe stemme
2013-04-17 Daar is heelwat gróót Afrikaanse name wat hierdie jaar die Franschhoek Literêre Fees gaan bywoon.
Sam Woulidge's Confessions of a Hungry Woman
2013-04-17 Sam Woulidge’s Confessions of a Hungry Woman reads like a food diary full of beautiful and also riveting stories.
Book launch: The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
2013-04-16 Random house and The Book Lounge invite you to the Cape Town launch of Lauren Beuke's The Shining Girls. Five book launches will take place in April.
Dancing in Other Words Programme Announcement (Dansende Digtersfees)
2013-04-12 Poetry and the reflections of award-winning international literary figures, political dissidents, activists and a Nobel Prize frontrunner, will fill the Spier Manor House and Old Wine Cellar on 10 and 11 May.