Leon De Kock
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A love for writing and women
Renowned South African author André Brink pursued love as voraciously as he wrote
Post-liberation writing plays hide-and-seek with plot
What is the real issue facing South African writers after apartheid?
Win pulls Ivan Vladislavic out of the margins
The author’s recent R1.5-million Windham Campbell award for fiction could not have come sooner, writes Leon de Kock.
The SA Lit issue won’t go away
Where to now for the South African writer of fiction in English? asks Leon de Kock.
Act puts noose around the internet’s neck
A badly drafted law easily allows anyone to censor the content of websites hosted in South Africa, writes Leon de Kock
High noon in the badlands
Mike Nicol’s revenge trilogy is more socially relevant than most literary SA fiction, writes <b>Leon de Kock</b>
Why rage is inevitable
Publishing is like a busy highway on which there are so many different types of drivers and crashes are common .
Going after the real thing
<b>Leon de Kock</b> walks the line between the real and the "real" in South African writing.
Grim land of animals and survivors
Leon de Kock reports on the violent Arcadia in South African fiction, as seen in Alistair Morgan’s <i>Sleeper’s Wake</i>
Leaving the forefront of African lit
Literary great Es’kia Mphahlele will pass on his intellectual legacy to many generations to come.
Politics of publishing
Leon de Kock looks back on a recent colloquium held at Wits University which focused on the role of publishers in non-fiction.