The M&G speaks to Shubnum Khan about being a Indian woman author in South Africa
Alistair Mackay’s debut novel It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way is an important contribution to queer, developing-world cli-fi.
The HSS Awards honours scholarly works based on their social relevance and contribution to the humanities and social sciences
Is there sufficient rigour to update the existing literary canon and infuse it with new voices that will themselves become canons in decades to come?
Phumlani Pikoli used crowdfunding to produce ‘The Fatuous State of Severity’, a collection of short stories. These are three excerpts from the book.
Luke Alfred walked long and far and recorded it in ‘Early One Sunday Morning I Decided to Step Out and Find South Africa’ (Tafelberg).
Alongside panels discussing hot topics, shortlisted poets from the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and Anthology will receive their awards.
He recently won the Caine prize for African writing for his short story Memories We Lost, initially published in the anthology Incredible Journeys.
‘The shout on the front cover of ‘The Yearning’ has Zakes Mda waxing lyrical about Mashigo’s writing talent. All his descriptors are true.’
Jane Rosenthal assesses four novels that cast the country in very different lights.
The legacy of one of Durban’s legendary characters is preserved and revitalised at the turn of every page.
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.
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/ 30 September 2011
Siphiwo Mahala, author of<em> When a Man Cries</em> and a collection of short stories, <em>African Delights</em>, talks about his writing process.
<b>Craig MacKenzie</b> ponders the central contradiction in
local literature.
Two new books examine the consequences of battles, both physical and ideological.
A local publisher outlines various challenges and defends local editing and writers.
The recent response to criticism by writers and performers from two very different sectors of literature (spoken-word poetry and genre fiction) is not
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/ 25 December 2008
There’s a move afoot locally to hustle crime fiction into the thriller category. Evangelisers of this new gospel say crime is a reminder of SA reality
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/ 4 December 2008
Unlike in the West, where many works of fiction first see the light of day in literary journals, most of our local works appear in book form first.
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/ 25 November 2008
Insomnia can be a wonderful thing, as Percy Zvomuya discovered.
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/ 20 November 2008
Zachariah Rapola’s Noma Award-winning short-story collection could be the beginnings of a dream literary life. Percy Zvomuya talks to its author.
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/ 7 November 2008
Literary great Es’kia Mphahlele will pass on his intellectual legacy to many generations to come.
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/ 30 October 2008
For those less-noticed regions of design, this book will not be of much use, though it does have some helpful introductory guides to typography.
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/ 17 October 2008
Shaun de Waal reviews two books by Paul Holden and Brian Pottinger that highlight Thabo Mbeki’s legacy.
There is a legitimate suspicion that Woolmer essentially wrote a rather narrowly focused coaching manual.
Reviewing three novels by white male authors prompts Jane Rosenthal to re-examine the male protagonist in post-apartheid literature.
After examining the most spectacular instance of the fine line between creativity and cribbing in SA literature, Stephen Gray writes about Zakes Mda.
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/ 24 September 2008
Niren Tolsi reflects on a meeting of minds across the Indian Ocean.
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/ 24 September 2008
Maureen Brady reviews a fascinating volume about the history of the Cradle of Humankind.
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/ 18 September 2008
Percy Zvomuya reports on a new brand of kiddies’ music that doesn’t ‘dumb it down’.
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/ 17 September 2008
Not all academics are pointy-heads aloof from the world. Henry Trotter converted his PhD into the page-turner <i>Sugar Girls & Seamen </i>.