Books and writers
Information about the latest books and the people behind them
James Whyle, winner of the PEN/Studzinski Award of 2011, in conversation with Janet van Eeden
2011-05-25 Review by Janet van Eeden James Whyle’s award-winning short story is quite simply titled “The Story”. The title pre-empts the style of the narrative, which is written with a bald matter-of-factness with a ...
African Library: The Sinners
2011-04-26 Yusuf Idris is considered one of the great authors – particularly as a short story writer – in the Arabic literary world.
Andie Miller talks to Janet van Eeden about her anthology Slow Motion: stories about walking
2010-10-29 Title: Slow Motion: stories about walkingAuthor: Andie Miller Publisher: JacanaDate of publication: 2010 ISBN: 97817700987010Click here to order Slow Motion from Kalahari.net! Short review by JvE Andie Miller’s collection of stories ...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Shaida Ali, author of Not a Fairy Tale, in conversation with Naomi Bruwer
2010-10-07 Title: Not a Fairy Tale Author: Shaida Kazi Ali Publisher: Umuzi ISBN: 9781415201121 Order Not a Fairy Tale from Kalahari.net. Not a Fairytale | Fiction Shaida Kazi Ali Not a Fairytale is a wonderful, unusual book set in an Indian ...
Sunday Times Alan Paton Award: 5 minutes with André Brink
2010-07-21André Brink’s A Fork in the Road has been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. Imke van Heerden asked him a couple of quick questions.
Walking and welcomed in Hillbrow
2010-07-21 Andie Miller is the author of Slow Motion, a collection of stories about walking, published by Jacana. Slow Motion Andie Miller Publisher: Jacana ISBN: 97817700987010Click here to order Slow Motion from Kalahari.net! When a friend asked me ...
South Africa on the Shelf: Keeping the conversation alive
2010-07-13 As Chile was walloping Switzerland, fans in Mary Fitzgerald Square were oblivious to the generator that kicked in when Eskom workers left the rest of the Newtown Cultural Precinct in the dark. I wondered what Fitzgerald, said to have been the first ...
The poet Phillippa Yaa de Villiers talks about her new collection, The Everyday Wife, with Janet van Eeden
2010-06-03 Phillippa Yaa de Villiers’s approach to her work is summed up by the first poem in her new collection of poetry, The Everyday Wife:Words become me …
Without them I am shorn.
Galgut heads back to the theatre, and has a new book out
2010-05-12 “After having poured forth … tirelessly torrents of red and white light it begins to lose its effulgence … pppfff! finished! It comes to rest. But – but behind this veil of gentleness and peace night is charging and will ...
(In brackets) - Andie Miller in conversation with Leon de Kock on bodyhood
2010-04-06 Leon de Kock’s new collection of poems, Bodyhood, has just been released by Umuzi. The poems in this collection open widely to the inside while looking outwards at the connecting points of body and being. Andie Miller, the author of Slow ...
"Its survival is my survival'': Imke van Heerden in conversation with translator Jameson Maluleke
2009-12-09"For me, translation is both a profession and a passion. Creativity in translation is like Kentucky Fried Chicken: a source of finger lickin’ goodness!"
Interview: Eben Venter’s Trencherman
2008-10-15 Charles Malan interviewed Eben Venter, who is temporarily living in Australia, about Trencherman, the translation of his novel Horrelpoot. Let’s talk about the reception and implications of the translation. One of the earliest ...
Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards: 10 quick questions to Charles J Fourie
2008-08-26 Maskew Miller Longman has announced the winners of its 2008 Literature Award competition for writing in all South Africa’s official languages. This year’s competition focused on youth dramas. Charles J Fourie won the ...
Trencherman: Venter's Anatomy of Visionlessness in Translation
2008-07-28 Title: Trencherman (Originally Horrelpoot)Author: Eben Venter; translated by Luke StubbsPublisher: Tafelberg, 2008Format: PaperbackPages: 321ISBN: 978 0 624 04651 6Click on the cover of Trencherman to order your copy of the book from Kalahari.net.In ...