M Amp G Literary Festival

A poet and social philosopher from Cape Town, Williams is the chairman of Read to Rise.

Luke Alfred walked long and far and recorded it in ‘Early One Sunday Morning I Decided to Step Out and Find South Africa’ (Tafelberg).

Topics include writing since Sol Plaatje to reporting on Marikana – and will continue at the afterparty

Alongside panels discussing hot topics, shortlisted poets from the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and Anthology will receive their awards.

The annual fair, together with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, will present a dialogue at the upcoming fair: Revisiting Madiba’s Legacy.

Here’s a list of the publishers from sub-Saharan Africa invited by Goethe-Institut to be part of this year’s South African Book Fair.

The SA Book Fair will feature over 100 authors, writers, poets, publishers and playwrights.

The annual Literary Festival will run from August 1-2 at the Turbine Hall in Newtown Johannesburg.

Hot debates are on offer as the literary festival and book fair join forces.

From Frans Cronje to Pumla Gbodo-Madikizela, four authors shared what their new books are about during a panel discussion at this year’s festival.

SA’s trending author has expertly embraced new media as a medium of horror, and the characters of her female protagonists defy casual stereotyping.

Where to now for the South African writer of fiction in English? asks Leon de Kock.

Okwiri Oduor, the special guest at the M&G Literary Festival, will be on the panels about Nadine Gordimer and the short story.

This is an edited extract from chapter 13, ‘The Ultimatum’ in Dennis Cruywagen’s book, Brothers in War and Peace.

A new anthology will present the top tales that have best captured South Africa’s voice post-1994.