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/ 20 June 2006

Of love and economics

Is this the best of times for South African literature? South Africans are buying more South African books. There are high-profile literary awards (leave aside, for now, the weak representation of poetry), successful local literature promotions, popular magazines commissioning new work by writers and a robust literary festival circuit.

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/ 22 April 2005

In other registers

<b>AUTHOR’S NOTES:</b> Written over a period of five years,<i>The Dream in the Next Body</i> earned feminist scholar Gabeba Baderoon the Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry. Baderoon talks to us about the book.