This selection will brighten up your festive season
Toni Morrison exists beyond the confines of literature, offering her works as part of a canon that should exist as a blueprint for a free existence.
"The stories I write come from being a black woman in South Africa, the friendships and relationships I have had…what we perceive as love."
Although book festivals are generally perceived as adult events, this one is family-centred and includes specific programmes for children.
The book fair has been a key factor in Somaliland’s embrace of literature
The American author and journalist was known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing developed in the 1960s and 1970s
The Abantu Book Festival exemplifies the love affair between black people and books. But, who carries the personal cost of this renaissance?
The writer-activist’s return to fiction remains as unsparing of India’s failings as her nonfiction
A new book detailing Nelson Mandela’s last days has been withdrawn, publisher Penguin Random House said on Monday.
The Caine Prize winner is writing a film script and would love to see his work screened at schools and townships.
The time has come to reimagine the country’s academic landscape and actively pursue it
Compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and Friday contributor Sihle Mthembu
From fantasy to wildlife, Mail & Guardian books editor Darryl Accone picks his great summer reads.
Only Eastern Cape reports some matric literature books to be delivered in January.
Edited extract of the editors’ introduction in ‘Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present’ (Wits University Press).
Rebecca Davis is left pondering the psychology of a man who would turn up to hear his own terrible history dissected in public.
Where to now for the South African writer of fiction in English? asks Leon de Kock.
Muxe Nkondo celebrates the life of a writer who tried to make sense of life from people’s experiences.
No city could be more eminently qualified for the title of Unesco City of Literature.
It was a simple declarative sentence, as are all Nobel Prize announcements…
Nobel prize winning author Nadine Gordimer has celebrated the legacy of the late writer Chinua Achebe at the M&G Literary festival.
The naive voices of children give potency to NoViolet Bulawayo’s story of loss and change.
Many felt that author JM Coetzee’s honorary doctorate speech at Wits was removed from the realities of SA education. Listen to the speech.
The marginalisation of local languages will continue and nonstandard English is the future to embrace.
Percy Zvomuya spoke to author Siphiwo Mahala about personally translating his book into his native tongue and scribbling notes on toilet paper.
Although many publications have been produced for the youth market, few tell their stories through the eyes of young people living in the townships.
Freedom of speech is the name of the game in Revolution Square where new publications have blossomed and women recite poetry in public.
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/ 30 October 2009
Gabriel Gárcia Márquez’s seminal novel, <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>, is the book that has most shaped world literature.
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/ 26 November 2008
At 35, Chetan Bhagat’s chronicling of the trials and tribulations of the country’s middle-class youth has made him a publishing phenomenon in India.
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/ 20 November 2008
As the global financial crisis tightens its grip, sales of Karl Marx’s <i>Das Kapital</i> are booming. Stuart Jeffries offers this handy primer.
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/ 23 October 2008
He might not be as well known as some of his contemporaries, but it is not surprising that JMG Le Clézio has been awarded the coveted prize.
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/ 17 October 2008
Ion Trewin, literary director of the Man Booker Prize, talks to Darryl Accone on the eve of the 40th Booker.