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Wind Cathedral
2013-09-18"This place is quiet
silence dominates the days
before sunset, a breeze begins to move the sand"
Umuzi Fiction: Giveaway – winner announced
2013-09-17 Umuzi is pleased to announce a fiction giveaway on LitNet. A lucky reader can win three books published by Umuzi. The winner of the competition is Nadia Taljaard. Congratulations, Nadia!
Open Book Festival 2013: The Ghost-Eater and other stories
2013-09-17 "The Ghost-Eater and other stories is a collection of 31 short stories from different writers who all took part in a creative writing workshop at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) with the compiler of the book, Diane Awerbuck, last year."
Panorama: A book review
2013-09-17 "Panorama refers to both a song sung by schoolchildren and to the view of the mountain from Robben Island which is visible to all who live there except the prisoners behind walls so high that not even the visiting Sunday School picnic children from the Dutch Reformed Church were aware of them."
Chemotherapy
2013-09-11"Go with the flow, he says
Who says? He, he who dishes the dirt,
poison for the pores, the nerve endings, the brain"
In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney
2013-09-06 "Now he is gone. Moreover, he died in the very week of the 11th anniversary of that astounding visit in August 2002. The loss to the world of English letters is immense, and all over the world memorial services will be held and memories and appraisals will be voiced in many important places."
Clover Aardklop 2013: Afda brings Afrikaans short films to festival
2013-09-05 A selection of Afrikaans short films made by the students of The South African School of Motion Picture and Live Performance (Afda) will be shown at the Clover Aardklop Festival. Reney Warrington asked Garth Holmes, co-founder and chairman of Afda, about the films and the industry.
Staring down the barrel: Mike Nicol’s Of Cops & Robbers
2013-09-04 "Whether you read his latest work as a playful homage to the hard-boiled heroes of the 1930s, find the crossing of boundaries between fact and fiction a source of interest, or just want to read a white-knuckle thriller about the not-quite state of the nation, Nicol’s your man."
Found in Translation
2013-09-04 A casual conversation between Of Cops & Robbers author Mike Nicol and Jaco Botha, who translated the novel into the Afrikaans as Dieners & Donners.
Open Book Festival 2013: Tickets giveaway!
2013-09-03 LitNet is pleased to announce that the Open Book Festival 2013 is giving away ten tickets to two events respectively at this year’s festival.
The born-frees
2013-09-03"What worth is your bravery?
As I’m surrounded by poverty
What for was all that chivalry?
I’m a born-free, for I stand proudly jobless"
To Whom It May Concern
2013-09-03"A large life should not end ordinarily
quietly during sleep
in isolation or at the turn of a switch"
Zebra Crossing: An electrifying novel
2013-08-28 "Without unqualified exultation it would be fair to say that Zebra Crossing is one of the very best works of socially conscious fiction produced in 2013, one that provides ample evidence of tremendous literary ability and a fine understanding of form."
Open Book Festival 2013: Programme
2013-08-27 Open Book Festival 2013 takes place from 7 to 11 September 2013 at The Fugard Theatre in Cape Town. See the full programme here.
Stormy weather
2013-08-27"The collecting of clouds, gathering grey matter
behind the blue gum trees
magnifying the bird calls
the rising humidity"
Through a haze of menthol
2013-08-27 "Through a haze of menthol-infusedCigarette smoke
I see his head bobbing back and forth
With the basic rhythms
Of the music in his mind"
Sol Plaatje European Union Award Poetry Award 2013
2013-08-27 Entries for the third Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award for poetry in all 11 South African languages have reopened! Winning poems will form part of a poetry anthology that honours the spirit of Sol Plaatje, the activist, linguist and translator, novelist, journalist and leader. The deadline for submissions is now Monday 9 September 2013.
African Library: The Forbidden Woman
2013-08-27 "Indeed, the entire text could be read as exhortation and inspiration; the contribution of an Algerian woman who left her country physically, but remains passionately committed to her country and to those of her compatriots who share her passion for freedom."