Surf the global tide in language and survive
The marginalisation of local languages will continue and nonstandard English is the future to embrace.
Old Jo'burg glitters with gritty detail
Two novels set in Jo'burg, Cape Town and London take the UJ prizes.
Beyond the silos of South African literature
This substantial offering from UKZN Press is very much about the now.
Our literary disgrace
The sale of JM Coetzee's archive to a Texan
university revives the question of where South Africa's literary heritage should be preserved.
So much talent, so few readers
Craig MacKenzie ponders the central contradiction in
local literature.
Vladislavic: Take two
Author, Ivan Vladislavic, has won his second UJ prize with a three-part novel that covers familiar ground.
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Humour in the shadow of the gallows
Herman Charles Bosman is well known for his "gallows humour", writes Craig MacKenzie.
Surf the global tide in language and survive
The marginalisation of local languages will continue and nonstandard English is the future to embrace.
First-timer takes UJ prize
Judges agree that Ceridwen Dovey's Blood Kin is the pick of the bunch. Craig MacKenzie reports.
Beyond the silos of South African literature
This substantial offering from UKZN Press is very much about the now.
So much talent, so few readers
Craig MacKenzie ponders the central contradiction in local literature.
Surf the global tide in language and survive
The marginalisation of local languages will continue and nonstandard English is the future to embrace.
Old Jo'burg glitters with gritty detail
Two novels set in Jo'burg, Cape Town and London take the UJ prizes.
Humour in the shadow of the gallows
Herman Charles Bosman is well known for his "gallows humour", writes Craig MacKenzie.
