
Darryl David
It’s going to be the festival of the year, beams Darryl David! “It might very well be the only festival of the year, but boy will it make up for the many that we missed!”
At the end of April, I announced nothing more than a dream to create the world’s largest online literary festival. Four months later, I can proudly announce the launch of the inaugural Madibaland World Literary Festival from 20–30 November 2020. For those not familiar with South Africa, the festival name was inspired by a travel book of the same name by well-known writer and journalist Denis Beckett, which in turn was inspired by a man who needs no introduction, a man known the world over – Nelson Mandela, who was lovingly called Madiba in this part of the world. The festival is a partnership between the University of the Western Cape and Book Town Richmond, the only Book Town in South Africa and on the African continent. The University of the Western Cape, which this year celebrates its 60th anniversary, will take charge of the online architecture for the festival, leaving Book Town Richmond to concentrate on what they do best – create unforgettable book festivals. And when you see the line-up for the inaugural festival, it will become clear why this festival has the potential to become the flagship international book festival for South Africa.
And few would argue with the statement above when they peruse the list of writers set to speak at the inaugural festival. There are literally writers from every corner of the world. And the who’s who of South African writers have also assembled for this festival.
Although we are waiting for a few more writers, including a large cohort from India, to confirm their participation, here is the preliminary line-up for the Madibaland World Literary Festival:
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- Shilpa Raj: The elephant chaser’s daughter
- John Connell: The cow book
- John Connell: The running book
- Greg Marinovich: Shots from the edge: A photojournalist’s encounters with conflict and resilience
- Jacob Dlamini: Askari: A story of collaboration and betrayal in the anti-apartheid struggle
- Jacob Dlamini: The terrorist album: Apartheid’s insurgents, collaborators and the security police
- Gabeba Baderoon: The history of intimacy
- Christopher Merrill: Poetry
- Christopher Merrill: Walt Whitman, Song of myself
- Michael Green: For the sake of silence
- Christopher Nicholson: Winter
- Christopher Nicholson: Among the summer snows
- Angie Butler: Explorers of the heroic age
- Emma Neale: Billy bird
- Emma Neale: Poetry
- Karen Karbo: The stuff of life
- Karen Karbo: The gospel according to Coco Chanel
- Kiki Petrosino: Witch wife
- Kiki Petrosino: White blood: A lyric of Virginia
- Sumayya Lee: The story of Maha
- Chris Abani: The secret history of Las Vegas (tbc)
- Etienne van Heerden: Die biblioteek aan die einde van die wêreld (The library at the end of the world)
- Fred Khumalo: The longest march (tbc)
- Hugh Bland: The trappist missions
- Hedi Lampert: The trouble with my aunt
- Ashwin Desai: Inside Indian indenture
- Breyten Breytenbach: Poetry (tbc)
- Dominique Malherbe: Sarah Goldblatt biography
- Chris Nicholson (South African judge) (tbc)
- Erica Platter: Durban curry
- Vernon Head: A tree for the birds
- Athol Williams: Poetry
- Fikile Hlatshwayo: Blacks do caravan
- Carol Campbell: The tortoise cried its only tear
- Zoë Wicomb: Still life
- Lauri Kubuitsile: But deliver us from evil
- Rumena Bužarovska: My husband
- Amanda Michalopoulou: God’s wife
- Nikola Madžirov: Remnants of another age
- Dana Snyman: On the back roads / Soekmekaar
- Antony Osler: Mzanzi Zen
- Mike Lowry / Steve Wimberley / Phillip Kretzman: Inspirational animal stories
- Tracy Going: Brutal legacy
- Vladimir Martinovski: Poetry
- Riana Scheepers: A writer’s house (tbc)
- Diana Ferrus: Poetry
- Jan van Tonder: Die verevrou
- Ronnie Kasrils: Catching tadpoles
- Raashida Khan: Fragrance of forgiveness
- Ronnie Govender in conversation with Rajendra Chetty (tbc)
- ZP Dala / Sylvia Garib: Durban in words (tbc)
- Philippe Menache & Darryl David: Churches of South Africa: A platteland pilgrimage
- Hattie Edmonds: The spectacular vision of Oskar Dunkelblick
- Jolyn Phillips: Bientang (tbc)
- Shanthini Naidoo: Women in solitary (tbc)
- Jerzy Koch: Pleks van plaas
- Elleke Boehmer: Southern imagining: To the volcano
- Nico Moolman: Russia in the Anglo-Boer War
- Mongane Wally Serote: Sikhahlel’ u-OR: A praise poem for Oliver Tambo (tbc)
- Mandla Langa: Dare not linger (tbc)
- Ahmed Kathrada Foundation
- Paul Weinberg: Traces and tracks: A 30-year journey with the San
- Lizzie Collingham: The hungry empire: How Britain’s quest for food shaped the modern world
- Lizzie Collingham: Curry: A tale of cooks and conquerors
- Kirsten Miller: All that is left
- Andrew Miller: Dub steps
- Don Pinnock: The last elephants
- Patricia Schonstein: The inn at Helsvlakte
- Petro Hansen: Vervleg
- Andries Bezuidenhout: Onplaats
- Ronelda Kamfer: Chinatown (poetry)
- Marguerite Poland: A sin of omission
- Natalie Conyer: Sisters in crime – three Sydney crime writers
- AM Kamaal: Nigeria / Nome Patrick Emeka: Nigerian poets (tbc)
- Nathan Trantraal: Oolog (poetry)
- James Daschuk: Clearing the plains
- Pieter-Louis Myburgh: Gangster state (tbc)
- Chris Marais & Julienne du Toit: Karoo roads
- Bronwyn Davids: Lansdowne dearest: My family’s story of forced removals
- Zirk van den Bergh: Ek wens, ek wens
- Erns Grundlingh: Sushi en Shosholoza: Rugbyreise en pelgrimstogte in Japan
- Antjie Krog: Poetry
- Petrovna Metelerkamp: Jeanne Goosen: ’n Lewe vol sinne
- Lynn Joffe: The gospel according to Wanda B Lazarus
- Mike Nicol: Espionage fiction
- Obie Oberholzer: Photography
- Christy Lefteri: The beekeeper of Aleppo
- Zanele Dlamini: Wounds of ignorance
- Landa Mabenge: Becoming him: A trans memoir of triumph
- Audrey Schulman: Theory of bastards
- Cherry Lewis: The enlightened Mr Parkinson
- Chris Mann: Troubadour
- Irene Fisher: I am still here
- Clinton du Plessis: Poetry
- Cameron McNeish: Scotland’s 100 best walks / There’s always the hills
- John T Edge: The Potlikker papers: A food history of the modern South
- Kobus Moolman
- Gerbrand Bakker: Boven is het stil (The twin) / De omweg (The detour)
- Sjón: The whispering muse (author an Academy Award-nominated singer)
- Deborah Rodriguez: The little coffee shop of Kabul
- Amy McDaid: Fake baby
- John Matisonn: Cyril’s choices
- Sharon Gosling: The house of hidden wonders – in conversation with Hugh David
- Chigozie Obioma: The fishermen / An orchestra of minorities
- Gaireyah Fredericks / Jaja Binks: Kaaps oppie Richterskaal
- Johan Jack Smith: Zola
- Colleen Higgs: My mother, my madness
- Ria Winters: Reise met Schoeman
- Thomas Mollett: The Anni Dewani murder
- Christine Barkhuizen-le Roux: My naam is Prins
- Anel Heydenrych: Die afloerder
- Carla van der Spuy: Plaasmoorde (tbc)
- In memoriam: Session dedicated to all writers who lay down their pen in 2020
- Anton Harber: Southern African muckraking: 300 years of investigative journalism (tbc)
- Andisiwa Kawa: Enough
- John Costello: The Wild Coast
- Raks Seakhoa: Halala Madiba (poetry)
- Daniel Hugo: Die verdriet van België / Oorlog en terpentyn
- Lize Albertyn-du Toit: Die kinders van spookwerwe
- Paul Weinberg: On common ground – an exhibition of Peter Magubane and David Goldblatt
- Bridget Krone: Small mercies
- Marita van der Vyver: Borderline (Grensgeval)
- Hector Kunene: Poetry
- Sindiswa Seakhoa: Songs for Madiba (music)
- Irna van Zyl: Bloedsteen (Blood stone)
- Barbara Boswell: Black South African women’s novels as feminism
- Deena Padayachee: Poetry / short story
- Rajie Tudge: Teaching the canna bush
For further queries, please contact Darryl Earl David at [email protected] or on WhatsApp on 066 455 8822; website: www.richmondnc.co.za.
Kommentaar
Van harte geluk Darryl en beste wense vir groot sukses.
Hi Darryl,
Philip Kretzmann here. Mike Lowry notified me that I had been included as a participant. I am happy with that. Please record me going forward as follows.
PHILIP KRETZMANN: CHEWING THE CUD : STORIES OF THE VILLAGE VET