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CHINUA ACHEBE

M&G LitFest: Nadine Gordimer remembers Chinua Achebe

Nobel-winning author Nadine Gordimer has paid tribute to Chinua Achebe, the eminent writer who passed away in March.

  • Lara Buxbaum
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A wide-range of topics were touched on at the session titled ‘Fact & fiction: The story is our escort, without it we are blind’.
LARA BUXBAUM

M&G LitFest: Metaphorical dimensions that shape fiction

From allegory to personal experiences, novelist and playwright Craig Higginson sat down with four novelists to speak on what inspires their writing.

  • Lara Buxbaum
4 min read
A file photograph of George Bizos, who spoke this weekend at the M&G’s Literary Festival of the ways in which poetry had influenced his life. (Gallo)
LARA BUXBAUM

M&G LitFest: ‘The only job in which one cannot lie is poetry’

Panelists at the M&G Literary Festival this weekend celebrated the work of poets Constantine Cavafy and George Seferis.

  • Lara Buxbaum
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The festival honoured the legacy of the late Chinua Achebe. (Supplied)
ADAM HABIB

M&G LitFest: Adam Habib on SA’s ‘moment of reckoning’

Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib opened the M&G Literary Festival, which pays tribute to Chinua Achebe, with thoughts on SA’s "suspended revolution".

  • Lara Buxbaum
3 min read