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shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival is calling for final submissions by 1 June 2019.

Die pryswenners van die ATKV ̶ SA Akademieprys 2019 is onlangs toegeken. Louise Viljoen is bekroon vir haar artikel wat in LitNet Akademies verskyn het.

Die 2019 UJ-prys is aan Charl-Pierre Naudé toegeken vir Die ongelooflike onskuld van Dirkie Verwey. Luister hier na Charl-Pierre Naudé se repliek.

"Sonsondergange en hongersnood tref immer die kol. Span altyd die woord Afrika of Donkerste of Safari in die titel in." 

Die 2019 UJ-prys is aan Charl-Pierre Naudé toegeken vir Die ongelooflike onskuld van Dirkie Verwey. Luister hier na Frederick J Botha se commendatio. 

"Indeed, it is hard to think of South African political poetry without the name of James Matthews. He was firmly identified with local expressions of Black Consciousness in the early 1970s, and his poetry shaped our generation’s understanding of the injustices, brutality and inhumanity that apartheid visited upon our communities across the country."

"Leon de Kock’s well-judged biography presents us with a complex portrait of a great writer beset by a fundamental loneliness. All the sex, all the affairs and all the marriages were a frequently misguided attempt to end this loneliness."

"Wat my sekerlik vir ʼn lang tyd sal bybly, is die feitlik onopsigtelike wyse waarop die Andrew Murray Prysfonds inklusiwiteit binne Christelike konteks bevorder. In ʼn wêreld waar godsdiens al meer gebruik (en misbruik) word om uit te sluit, is dit ʼn baken van hoop."

"Ek vind soveel aanklank by die konsep van die pelgrimsreis as feesviering, en dit was ’n ongelooflike ervaring om deel te wees van ’n groep mense wat uiteindelik dieselfde eenvoudige doel gehad het: om die eindbestemming te haal en dit in die proses te geniet."

"Moet ’n mens dus maar wegkyk? Is hy dan nie juis ’n voorbeeld van hoe om geloof met amp te versoen nie?"

"Or, is it a bitter sop to the reality of the all-powerful English language and the foundations of Grahamstown’s university and elite schools, its historic churches and much more, rooted in the culture of the British Settlers and their descendants – not to mention the roadside name boards identifying ownership of the numerous prosperous farms in the region once known as the Albany – the Zuurveld?"

Keelvol is by die Boer restaurant teater in Durbanville te sien op 5 Junie om 20:30 en Sondag 9 Junie om 13:30 (met Germandt Geldenhuys, beter bekend as Louis Koster in die gewilde kykNET sepie, Binnelanders, en Je-ani Swiegelaar, beter bekend as Sr Naomi Ferreira in Binnelanders).

Die jaarlikse Snoek- en Patatfees vind plaas op 28 en 29 Junie in Goedverwacht (naby Piketberg).

"Almal is traag om die museum te verlaat, want die aand was ’n bewys dat die egste, eenvoudigste en eerlikste vorm van kuns nog bestaan. Coffee Snobs se hele vertoning en menswees het dit duidelik gemaak dat hulle sing om hulle storie te vertel."

There’s only a few more weeks to submit your Cape Town stories to enter the Cape Town Library Book: Writing my City competition. The final deadline for submissions is 15 June.

Amazwi South African Museum of Literature is proud to announce the 2019 Eastern Cape Literature Festival, which will take place at the new Amazwi museum complex in Makhanda from 3-7 July 2019.

From 4 to 8 June 2019, two outstanding dance companies from Flanders in Belgium will be performing at the Baxter Theatre Centre, following on from their successful seasons at the Klein Karoo Kunstefees in March and at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg at the end of May. 

The Jacana Literary Foundation, in partnership with the Other Foundation, is proud to announce the 2019 recipient of the Gerald Kraak Prize. Congratulations to OluTimehin Adegbeye, whose essay, "Mothers and Men", made her this year’s worthy winner.

"Die wêreld en alles wat oppit is, wattie mense soe na velang, gat vegaan, maa hulle wattie wil van God doen, liewe vi’ iewig."