German-Romanian writer Herta Müller is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009. Müller has been an outsider since birth.
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/ 23 September 2009
For self-styled SABCs (South African-born Chinese), fitting in has been a constant challenge eagerly embraced.
What a difference seven days make. Here is a tale of two weekends, with two widely divergent aims and outcomes.
Darryl Accone gives a rundown of the frontrunners for the Alan Paton and <i>Sunday Times</i> awards.
The Franschhoek Literary Festival (FLF) boasts a large contingent of regular participants and a smattering of debutants.
‘Tell our stories" went the post-apartheid creative mantra in film and literature. A golden age beckoned, unfettered by censorship.
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/ 4 February 2009
Darryl Accone rounds up the hottest reads on China as the Year of the Ox yokes up.
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/ 25 December 2008
There’s a move afoot locally to hustle crime fiction into the thriller category. Evangelisers of this new gospel say crime is a reminder of SA reality
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/ 26 November 2008
Darryl Accone reviews <i>Stone the Crows: Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang </i>, <i>Foyle’s Philavery</i> and <i>Gallimaufry</i>.
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/ 7 November 2008
Darryl Accone breaks down Exclusive Books’s list of recommended summer reading.