Imraan Coovadia
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Damon Galgut: ‘If one loves South Africa it has to be a dark kind of love’
Damon Galgut, who was born in Pretoria in 1963 and lives in Cape Town, has been writing fiction since he was 17. Last month his novel, The Promise, won the Booker Prize. Imraan…
Imraan Coovadia on ‘The Poisoners’ and keeping science honest
Imraan Coovadia’s new book examines how poison has shaped political affairs in Southern Africa
Deadly medicine: Poison and warfare
Imraan Coovadia’s new book connects the programmes of poisoning in Rhodesia and South Africa in five essays about the circumstances and men at the centre of their making
Impressive feat of imagination
The highs, the lows, the in-betweens: they are all there in Imraan Coovadia’s astonishing novel.
2012: By the book
We speak to some of the country’s hottest literary talents about the books and authors which inspired them in 2012.
Imraan’s words on the move
If Imraan Coovadia’s work was a computer operating system, we would call it open source — it is so open in its imagination of another world.
Writers: Penned in or breaking out?
This year has particular significance for Africa’s connection with the written word. Percy Zvomuya reports.
Of shadows seeing shadows
Jane Rosenthal explores the complexity of the everyday in Imraan Coovadia’s third novel <em>High low in-between</em>.
Enemy or promise?
Darryl Accone examines the culture and commercial imperatives of book awards