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Way back home – a commendable effort

Karabo Kgoleng Books and writers 2013-05-21

"South African writing is aching to evolve beyond narratives about our painful past and how it continues to haunt us."

FLF 2013: Dystopia in science fiction

Tembi Charles 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."

FLF 2013: The Suitcase under the Bed

Ean Barnard 2013-05-21 You’ve got a story to tell. So what now?

Chris van Wyk and Paul Geraghty do the “Power of Horowitz”

Melanie du Toit Academic research 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

Chrizane Geldenhuys 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.

Fences

Heidi Henning 2013-05-20 "A border becomes a gateway
they stamp over the barbed wire, fearless,
moving into a softer place"

Dystopia in Science Fiction: Q&A with Rachel Zadok

Elzette Steenkamp, Rachel Zadok 2013-05-17 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Rachel Zadok (author of Sister Sister) about science and speculative fiction.

Booktown Richmond’s 7th Anniversary

2013-05-15 JM Coetzee/Nobel Laureates and Athol Fugard Festivals: May 23-25, 2013.

Here is what’s wrong with Justin Bieber (and us)

Francois Badenhorst 2013-05-15 "Many try to ignore what is broken or repulsive. That is not the answer. The only way to fix the problems we see in celebrity culture – the consumerism, the immorality, the greed – is to change the nature of the conversation."

The Shining Girls – an adeptly crafted spine-tingler

Kayang Gagiano 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

Elzette Steenkamp, 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

Elzette Steenkamp, 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

Elzette Steenkamp, Karen Jayes 2013-05-15 Elzette Steenkamp chats to Karen Jayes about science and specultive fiction

Age of Blossom

Isobel Dixon 2013-05-14 The acclaimed South African poet Isobel Dixon sent LitNet two of her latest poems, never published before. These poems form part of a collaboration with Scottish artist Douglas Robertson in which they respond in different poetic and artistic ways to DH Lawrence's Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923).

Acacia Karroo

Isobel Dixon 2013-05-14 The acclaimed South African poet, Isobel Dixon, sent LitNet two of her latest poems, never published before. These two poems form part of a collaboration with Scottish artist Douglas Robertson in which they respond in different poetic and artistic ways to D H Lawrence's Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923).

Bridging gaps with words

Isobel Dixon 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.

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