Alert! Eight international authors have been confirmed for the Open Book Festival 2014 and if this initial list is anything to go by it seems the festival is continuing to go from strength to strength.
Included on the list is Irish author Sebastian Barry, who has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize twice and won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Secret Scripture, his latest novel The Temporary Gentleman comes out this year. British writer Mike Carey, who has written comics for the likes of DC Comics and Marvel, will also be speaking. His latest novel, The Girl with All the Gifts was published this month.
Fantasy fans will be excited to hear that best-selling American author Raymond E Feist has confirmed his attendance. His latest book is Magician’s End, the third in The Chaoswar Saga, which forms part of his extensive main series, The Riftwar Cycle.
Also confirmed are Aminatta Forna, the award-winning UK-based author of The Hired Man who was partly raised in Sierra Leone and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award 2011 for The Memory of Love, and German author Felicitas Hoppe, whose latest book Hoppe won the 2012 Büchner Preis. Australian political activist and journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of the best-selling Profits of Doom: How vulture capitalism is swallowing the world, will also be speaking.
Two children’s book authors and illustrators will also be speaking at the festival, Satoshi Kitamura from Japan, whose most recent book is Pot-San’s Tabletop Tales, and Adam Stower from the UK whose book, Naughty Kitty came out last year.
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Press Release
This is a big year – Cape Town is the World Design Capital, South Africa celebrates 20 years of democracy and Open Book goes into its fourth edition!
Block off the 17th to the 21st September! 5 days of mingling with authors and book lovers from near and far… 5 days of events that stay with you long after they’re over… 5 days of literary heaven…
International authors who have confirmed they will be touching down in the Mother City are Sebastian Barry, Mike Carey, Raymond E Feist, Aminatta Forna, Felicitas Hoppe, Antony Loewenstein and children’s authors, Satoshi Kitamura and Adam Stower.
Each year we are blown away by the authors from around the world who are willing to make the lengthy trip to Cape Town to join us, and 2014 is no exception. We look forward to planning an Open Book programme featuring the authors above and to introducing them to their South African readers. So get reading in preparation for incredible events in September! Books will be available from the Book Lounge.
Open Book is an ongoing affair and September is some way off! Before then, we are running monthly events at schools as well as mentoring programmes from three locations.
Kicking off in February, our Youth Programme is one we are very excited about. Scottish performance poet, Rachel McCrum will visit Westridge High School on the 5th February to speak to students at the school. We will also be running the first mentoring programme of the year at the school.
Other events on the horizon include Pulp Fiction – The Saga Continues…We will once again be working with our much loved partners, Central Library, on what looks to be one of our most exciting book installations yet. This will coincide with Library Week in March and we hope to see you all there!
If you would like further details about the festival or events through the year, please contact Frankie (frankie@openbookfestival.co.za).
More news soon!
The Open Book Team
Open Book is organised in partnership with The Fugard Theatre, The District 6 Museum, The Townhouse Hotel, Equal Education, The Bookery, The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts, British Council, The French Institute, Central Library, PEN SA, The Goethe Institute, Nederlands Letterfonds and sponsored by Leopard’s Leap, Penguin Books, Pan Macmillan, Random House Struik, NB Publishers and Jonathan Ball.
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- The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
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EAN: 9780571276950
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- The Girl with All the Gifts by M R Carey
EAN: 9780356502731
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- Magician’s End by Raymond E Feist
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EAN: 9780007264797
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- The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna
EAN: 9781408838242
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- Hoppe by Felicitas Hoppe
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EAN: 9783100324511
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- Profits of Doom: How vulture capitalism is swallowing the world by Antony Loewenstein
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EAN: 9780522858822
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- Pot-San’s Tabletop Tales by Satoshi Kitamura
EAN: 9781849393782
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- Naughty Kitty by Adam Stower
EAN: 9781848773318
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