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The Spiral House by Claire Robertson
2014-01-03 “Claire Robertson’s extensively researched debut novel, The Spiral House, comes after thirty years spent working as a journalist. The novel has garnered praise from various quarters, unsurprisingly, since it seems to engage every nerve and fibre of one’s body and mind, so absorbing is its arc.”
Reader's review: Black Widow Society
2014-01-03 "If anyone dared to say that the burgeoning South African crime fiction scene was light on inventiveness, over-politicised, almost exclusively cornered by Cape writers and lacking in contributions from black female writers, then Angela Makholwa offers a decidedly tart response with her latest novel, Black Widow Society."
African Library: Harare North by Brian Chikwava
2013-12-18 Chikwava’s Harare North ... presents readers with an evocation of conflicted Zimbabwean identities ... and with making lives for themselves in Britain, where so many of their compatriots have inserted themselves ... (T)hey have mockingly re-named London 'Harare North' (Johannesburg being known as 'Harare South')."
Tin Soldier at the Artscape
2013-12-11 It is always a challenge to tell a story through dance - the dancers use movement, mime and music to tell the story - but being a very simple story, that was quite easy to translate into dance.” Robin van Wyk discusses the choreography of a classic ballet this holiday season in Cape Town.
Whimsical generator
2013-12-04"You and I have a complicated relationship
Like a long unbalanced equation
Requiring a clear mind, in the heat-fatigued night"
Skinned by Antjie Krog
2013-12-04 "The poet thus becomes the text, inhabits the text and becomes part of the articulations and rhythms of the text." Franci Vosloo discusses why Skinned is a good representation of Krog's oeuvre and the essence of Krog's poetics.
Announcing the 2013 European Union literary award winner
2013-11-28 Participating European Union members and Jacana Media are delighted to announce Penny Busetto as the winner of the 2013 European Union Literary Award for 2013 .
Through realms of scattered verse
2013-11-27"Through realms of scattered verse
I lead processions in a pale hearse
of images of penultimate
rapture"
Cape Town roller derby
2013-11-25 “These are some pics from a mock up bout that the girls put together at the Rockabilly Festival in Cape Town.”
White-washed equality
2013-11-22 “A fact particularly relevant to South Africa is that being born white (not just white and wealthy) also grants better access to opportunity. For South Africa to move on, we all need to acknowledge this fact. And it is a fact.”
Netpoets 2.0
2013-11-20 Write a poem with the theme “the internet”. Use the internet as a medium to look at how we read and write poetry in the digital age.
Birdsong
2013-11-20 "Long into the afternoon shadowsAs I search through the dark pool of sounds
for the same lost call."
RQTN: Simplicity with French flair
2013-11-12 “You probably haven’t heard of RQTN. The name is far from ubiquitous in South African musical circles. However, this regional anonymity is not due to a lack of talent. Far from it. It’s a matter of proximity. The one-man musical project hails from France, some 9 000 km away.”
The War at Home: An interview with Bill Nasson
2013-11-12 "Some (black people) were loyal and trusted servants of Boer families, others were participants in the running of the camp system. You could say that there were divided loyalties. Or, that for some there were no loyalties – they were just doing their best to get through the war."
2013 ACT Lifetime Achievement Awards: Winner profiles
2013-11-12 “The Arts & Culture Trust named author Elsa Joubert as the 2013 winner of the ACT Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature, sponsored by Media24 Books, in Johannesburg today.”
Finding the writer where the stories begin
2013-11-11 An interview with award-winning South African author Linda Rode about the award-winning book In die Nimmer-Immer Bos / In the Never Ever Wood.
October by Réney Warrington: Photos of book launch
2013-11-11 Réney Warrington’s October (published by Protea) was launched on 8 November 2013 at Bibliophilia in Woodstock, Cape Town. Réney Warrington was in conversation with Izak de Vries. Hannelie Coetzee shared her photos of the evening with LitNet.
Review: For the Mercy of Water
2013-11-04 "Inspired by Jayes’s experience as a newspaper journalist covering events in the Middle East, For the Mercy of Water is concerned with the ways in which control over access to water can be used as a political tool."
Sunset
2013-10-29 "The rays of light have become irresponsibleThey sparkle with a slightly more subtle shine"