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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 ...
Andie Miller in conversation with Karabo Kgoleng, presenter of Afternoon Talk and Literature
2010-09-22 We’re sitting under the oaks outside the coffee shop, and it’s a beautiful evening. Karabo Kgoleng has come from two hours of Afternoon Talk and is recharging her battery with a bottle of sparkling water. I order a cappuccino. When she ...
Die ''nuwe'' NALN: Naomi Bruwer gesels met Gert Opperman
2010-08-26 Die hernuwing van NALN - die Afrikaanse Museum en Navorsingsentrum - is vroeër vanjaar afgeskop met die aankondiging dat die Erfenisstigting aktief betrokke raak om te verseker dat NALN se eertydse glorie herwin word. Naomi Bruwer het met ...
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.
(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 ...
Once more, with feeling: The practice of literary translation
2009-11-24 This is an edited version of a guest-of-honour speech delivered at the South African Translators’ Institute awards event, University of Johannesburg, October 2009.
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 ...
Liriekfabriek: Francois Blom
2008-06-12 Wat maak die lirieke van 'n liedjie goed? Ek het geen idee nie. Die eerste ding wat ’n mens opval is seker die tema. As die lirieke jou emosies verwoord of jou opinies deel, is die kans groter dat jy van die song gaan hou. Dis hoekom ...
Fynbos Fairies launches at the CTBF and you're invited. See what Antjie Krog has to say about this delightful book of children's verse
2007-06-13 Antjie Krog has once again brought us a delightful new children’s book, a book readers of all ages are bound to fall in love with. Have you ever wondered about the secrets of Fynbos? Well Antjie Krog uses verse along with Fiona Moodie’s ...
Creating My beautiful death: We speak to Riana Barnard, Eben Venter, Luke Stubbs and Lynda Gilfillan
2007-04-18 When did Tafelberg decide to bring out an English translation of Eben Venter’s Ek stamel ek sterwe?
ABSA Ketting: Johann Lodewyk Marais gesels met Alexander Strachan
2006-09-09 1.Jy bly nou die afgelope twee jaar permanent in Milnerstraat op Harrismith. Hoe het dit gekom dat jy jou daar gaan vestig het? Ek en my broer Johannes het dit drie jaar gelede reggekry om my oupa se familieplaas terug te koop. Op daardie ...