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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 ...
ABSA Chain: Kole Omotoso in conversation with Abraham H de Vries
2006-07-30 Kole Omotose poses some questions to Abraham H de Vries
ABSA Chain: Abraham H de Vries in conversation with Mike Nicol
2006-07-30 Abraham H de Vries slightly changed the context of the questions put to him by Kole Omotosho, and asked the same questions to Mike Nicol.
ABSA Chain: Mike Nicol in conversation with Deon Meyer
2006-07-30 The genres - crime, thrillers, historical romance, etc - haven't attracted many proponents over recent decades in SA (probably for obvious reasons, at least as far as cop stories were concerned), but it could be that we are maturing and ...
ABSA Chain: Athol Fugard in conversation with André P Brink
2006-07-28Dear André Rather silly for two old veterans like us to be relating to each other from the ends of a silly little “chain”, but here goes. As someone who has admired you over the years both as a man and an artist I would like to ...