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Saluting Nadine Gordimer’s sharp pen
Speakers at the Mail & Guardian's annual Litfest paid homage to Nadine Gordimer's influence as author-activist.
M&G Literary Festival: A high school reunion of sorts
Verashni Pillay will chat to Anele Mdoda, Khaya Dlanga and others tonight at the M&G Literary Festival, in a session about being young in SA in 2012.
Refuge for the wretched
Although little known in the English world, Patrick Chamoiseau's novel Texaco should be read all over.
Surf the global tide in language and survive
The marginalisation of local languages will continue and nonstandard English is the future to embrace.
Literary Festival 2012: Meet the authors
The M&G Literary Festival features a lineup of well-known names from the worlds of media and publishing.
New honour for Serote
Mongane Wally Serote has joined Leopold Sedar Senghor of Senegal as the only other African winner of the Golden Wreath Award.
A festival wordy of note
Darryl Accone previews the line-up for the Mail & Guardian's annual celebration of literature.
Juxtaposing fantasy with the familiar
South African writers who dare to venture into the fantastical are accused of writing “untruths", it was suggested at the M&G LIterary Festival.
Bringing history to life
South Africa's most powerful struggle memoirs celebrate the personal as much as the political. That was the message of the M&G Literary Festival.
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