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".
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.
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/ 21 October 2011
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>.
Imraan Coovadia and Jacob Dlamini are the winners of the annual University of Johannesburg literary awards.
Now is the time to reconsider the work of Guy Butler and what he stood for.
Judges agree that Ceridwen Dovey’s <i>Blood Kin</i> is the pick of the bunch. Craig MacKenzie reports.
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/ 28 December 2001
Herman Charles Bosman is well known for his "gallows humour", writes Craig MacKenzie.