Litnet

The shortlist for the 2021 Kendeka Prize for African Literature has been announced today.

Damon Galgut's latest novel, The Promise, has been shortlisted for one of the world's most prestigious literary prizes, the Booker Prize. The announcement was made during an online event on Tuesday evening.

Hoeveel mense het al in Suid-Afrika gesterf weens die entstof? Hannelie Meyer verskaf die antwoord aan Freek Robinson.

The University of Johannesburg is pleased to announce the winners of the following three newly instated prizes: UJ Prize for Creative Writing in isiZulu, UJ Prize for Creative Writing in Sesotho sa Leboa and the UJ Prize for Literary Translation.

“Die ATKV is dankbaar vir elke skrywer wat vir Afrikaanse lesers die geleentheid te gee om hul horisonne te verbreed al was dit net met reise op die rusbank. Baie geluk aan elke wenner.”

Die digter bou met beeldende taalgebruik ’n brose binneplaas in ’n bedreigende wêreld, ’n tydelike verblyf tot en met die onafwendbare verval.

Miriam knows that just because Laura is witnessed leaving the scene of a horrific murder with blood on her clothes, that doesn't mean she's a killer. Bitter experience has taught her how easy it is to get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The poisoners is a history of four devastating chapters in the making of the region, seen through the disturbing use of toxins and accusations of poisoning circulated by soldiers, spies and politicians in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Sedert die dag toe die maan deur ’n asteroïed getref is, weet almal dat dit onafwendbaar is: Dis die begin van die einde. Tog gaan die lewe op Dennehoop eintlik ongesteurd voort.

Op hul bootvaart ontmoet dié twee ’n bonte verskeidenheid soekers en swerwers, wat almal afleggings en tot-rus-kom moet deurmaak – elkeen alleen.

Teen die tyd dat Harry in Oos-Afrika opgespoor word, is sy ma al dae lank dood. Harry kry die reuk van ’n groot gekonkel. Nie eens daai parmantige Ella Neser gaan hom keer nie.

Raised during the Rhodesian bush war and immigrating to SA at the age of 11, Terry is shaped by a white culture that is racist, unstable and deeply divided.

Dianne is divorced, but for the sake of her two daughters, she lives next to her ex-husband, sharing a joint double garden. Good for the girls, but what about her? How can she move on if Alan and his new fiancée are always around?

Cato ontmoet Da’oud, ’n jong Egiptenaar, tydens ’n bootvaart op die Nyl. Sy familie is intens geraak deur sosio-politieke onrus en ongeregtigheid, met 2011 se onlus op die Tahrir-plein as laagtepunt.

"Sedert Shaleen Surtie-Richards se voortydige afsterwe enkele maande gelede al, soek ek die teaterprogram van Kruik se opvoering in 1986 van Die proponentjie, Pieter Fourie se toe nuutgeskrewe klug wat uit Kaapstad die platteland vol getoer het."

"Hy was ’n leidende en geliefde stem in die progressief-liberale Christendom, maar ook gevrees en gehaat in fundamentalistiese groeperinge."

"Beste Afrikaanse lezer, maak kennis met de Vlaamse dichter Eddy van Vliet (1942–2002). Volgend jaar zal het twintig jaar geleden zijn dat de schrijver na een slepende ziekte overleed."

"Die punt van die boek is myns insiens om dubbelsinnigheid in die mens en die lewe self uit te beeld: Niks is slegs wit of swart nie, maar eerder ’n enorme mosaïek, in volkleur."

"After each global convulsion, the world is flooded with ideas of how to make and manage what amounts to a new normal. The present confluence of COVID, climate change and the collapse of the West’s 20 years in Afghanistan is such a moment."

"This article finds that between the two translators, Ferreira’s transformative hand in the translation is the lightest, although her alteration of the title and her translation of especially gendered pejoratives conveys a subtle yet pertinent feminist reading of the source text. In Egan’s editing of the text, he slightly accentuates the misogyny of the male characters, especially through a prolific addition of sexist pejoratives."