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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
After Stephen Gray savaged me in the pages of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> a few weeks ago, I immediately responded, thanks to the new age of blogs.
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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.
A raunchy novel with a dauntless heroine has transformed the lives of a 93-year-old author and three of her friends who were living in nursing homes.
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/ 4 September 2008
The notion of testing yourself against Austen’s novels would not have been so unfamiliar to their author.
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/ 1 September 2008
Neville Dubow’s contribution to critical writing in newspapers and journals is immense; already in the late 1950s he set a standard for art reviews.
It is often said that everybody has a novel in them. The current problem is that so many of us bring that novel out of ourselves and get it published.
South Africans search for bookish answers in a time of political doubt, writes Nosimilo Ndlovu.
Towering figure of Russian literature and politics who revealed the true horrors of Stalin’s labour camps.
Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday gave British author Salman Rushdie a knighthood. He was knighted for his services to literature.
If the Cape Town Book Fair is to mean something beyond an exercise in retailing it needs to seize opportunities to be unique, writes Darryl Accone.
Meg Samuelson asks if we can leave open the door to the South African literary house.