Craig MacKenzie

Winning works in the UJ Prize for South African Writing in English ranged from reimagining the plaasroman genre to poetry word-paintings.

Noted novelist Zakes Mda and debut writer Penny Busetto take the University of Johannesburg awards.

Noted novelist Zakes Mda and debut writer Penny Busetto have won the University of Johannesburg awards with "Rachel’s Blue" and "The Story of Anna P".

UJ Prize winners Lauren Beukes and Dominique Botha have penned well-crafted novels that are innovative and refreshing reads.

To mark novelist Nadine Gordimer’s 90th birthday, Craig MacKenzie celebrates how her work has astutely interpreted the tenor of our times.

The African National Congress’ subsequent behaviour is changing how the movement will be viewed in the future, writes Craig MacKenzie.

The marginalisation of local languages will continue and nonstandard English is the future to embrace.

Two novels set in Jo’burg, Cape Town and London take the UJ prizes.

This substantial offering from UKZN Press is very much about the now.

The sale of JM Coetzee’s archive to a Texan university revives the question of where South Africa’s literary heritage should be preserved.

<b>Craig MacKenzie</b> ponders the central contradiction in local literature.

Author, Ivan Vladislavic, has won his second UJ prize with a three-part novel that covers familiar ground.

If there is an elegiac tone to this collection it is because the period it covers was a time in which there was genuine outrage at SA’s policies

<b>Craig MacKenzie</b> previews texts and topics at the heart of the state of South African fiction.

James Clelland is the winner of the 2009/2010 European Union Literary Award for his novel <i>Deeper than Colour</i>.