M Amp G Johannesburg Literary Festival

Speakers at the Mail & Guardian’s annual Litfest paid homage to Nadine Gordimer’s influence as author-activist.

Verashni Pillay will chat to Anele Mdoda, Khaya Dlanga and others tonight at the M&G Literary Festival, in a session about being young in SA in 2012.

The marginalisation of local languages will continue and nonstandard English is the future to embrace.

Although little known in the English world, Patrick Chamoiseau’s novel Texaco should be read all over.

The M&G Literary Festival features a lineup of well-known names from the worlds of media and publishing.

Mongane Wally Serote has joined Leopold Sedar Senghor of Senegal as the only other African winner of the Golden Wreath Award.

Darryl Accone previews the line-up for the Mail & Guardian’s annual celebration of literature.

South African writers who dare to venture into the fantastical are accused of writing “untruths", it was suggested at the M&G LIterary Festival.

South Africa’s most powerful struggle memoirs celebrate the personal as much as the political. That was the message of the M&G Literary Festival.

The state has the power to bring balance to SA, but is instead acting as "a bodyguard of whiteness", Andile Mngxitama told the M&G Literary Festival.

Denis Hirson will be at the M&G Literary Festival on "Memories of the city".

The festival will touch on personal and political memories of the city of Jo’burg.

Veteran anti-apartheid activist Rica Hodgson (91) will be on stage with Hugh Lewin and Ronnie Kasrils in "Memory is the Weapon".

Kally Forrest recounts the violence that has surrounded Numsa.

Jo’burg’s past, present and future hold rich challenges for writers and analysts.