Literary Festival 2013
latest news & developments
Davids is turning back on black
A notable debut novel – "The Blacks of Cape Town" – ?explores how complex ?issues of race colour South Africa’s past, ?present and future.
Cave clans bear up under SF’s stern lens
Shaman explores the boundaries that divide science fiction imagination and history in order to try and explain who we are.
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.
LitFest news: Keorapetse Kgositsile added to panel line-up
South Africa’s Poet Laureate, Keorapetse Kgositsile, will be on the panel Cavafy, Seferis and South African poets at the M&G Literary Festival.
Alchemists of the ordinary
Hedley Twidle asks if slow is faster when it comes to food, sex, reading and writing.
Heirs to the struggle do it no justice
The African National Congress’ subsequent behaviour is changing how the movement will be viewed in the future, writes Craig MacKenzie.
An ode to Grecian earnestness
One of our most venerable poets extols the virtues not of the classical Greeks, but of their descendants.
Literary Festival 2013: Achebe sets the agenda
The fourth annual <em>M&G</em> Literary Festival aims to foster robust debate about political, social and literary revolution.
Litfest 2013: Migration is a tale that knows no bounds
Behind an apparently amorphous multitude are distinct individuals, each with a particular mission.
Author’s Notes: CA Davids
CA Davids answers questions about her debut novel, The Blacks of Cape Town (Modjadji).