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The 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival will feature no fewer than ten South Africans, including Lauren Beukes, Niq Mhlongo, Margie Orford, Mark Gevisser, Damon Galgut and Zakes Mda, as well as CA Davids, who is up for the festival’s First Book Award.
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The Edinburgh International Book Festival, which was founded in 1983, has grown to become one of the biggest events of its kind in the world, and this year will host over 800 authors, and around 220,000 visitors, between Saturday, 9 August and Monday, 25 August.
One of the themes of this year’s festival is “Voices from South Africa: Novelists and writers whose work is now making waves internationally”, which ties in with the commemoration of 20 years of democracy.
Other South African authors include Mpho Tutu, Rosie Rowell, who grew up in Cape Town but lives in London, and Elaine Proctor.
Tickets range from £5 (around R90) to £10, although one of Galgut’s events – a reading workshop on A Passage to India – is already sold out.
Twenty years since the end of apartheid, South Africa is still struggling to make sense of itself as a democracy. Yet despite its political troubles (or perhaps because of them?) the country is building a powerful community of novelists and writers whose work is now making waves internationally. Alongside Mpho Tutu, literary heavyweights Damon Galgut and Zakes Mda join us in 2014, along with the brilliant crime writer Margie Orford, stunning debuts from CA Davids and Rosie Rowell, bestselling thriller writer Lauren Beukes and one of the fastest rising new stars of the South African scene, Niq Mhlongo.
Davids’ The Blacks of Cape Town is in the running for the First Book Award, which is chosen by the public. Voting closes at midnight on Friday, 17 October, 2014.
Excitement around the festival is growing on Twitter:
The #edbookfest programme will be available from noon on our website. Tickets go on sale 24th June. pic.twitter.com/4lUpsFZSnU
— Edinburgh Book Fest (@edbookfest) June 11, 2014
Gearing up for South Africa w/ novels by @edbookfest authors. Excited to see their talk! @HotKeyBooks @QuercusBooks pic.twitter.com/41h1fPR612
— Samantha H Porter (@samstarrrrr) July 18, 2014
Damon Galgut's A Passage to India reading workshop on 20 August, Jeremy Paxman on 24 Aug & Kate Adie 20 Aug have now sold out #edbookfest
— Edinburgh Book Fest (@edbookfest) June 24, 2014
Violence and its grammars: I'll be at the Edinburgh Festival 20 August https://t.co/RUbbgsizqx
— Margie Orford (@MargieOrford) June 11, 2014
Edinburgh international book fest highlights includes CA Davids, Modjaji author with her debut novel, The Blacks… http://t.co/GfuggjFJuy
— Colleen Higgs (@modjaji_bks) August 4, 2014
'Voices from South Africa' – at the 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival, 9-25 August 2014… http://t.co/V2pdlW6UlU
— Africa in Words (@AfricainWords) August 4, 2014
Traditions collide with modernity on 13 Aug with Niq Mhlongo & First Book Award nominee Anna Whitwham https://t.co/KjhZVOBp5p #edbookfest
— Edinburgh Book Fest (@edbookfest) August 1, 2014
Still a few @edbookfest tickets left for South African superstars @MargieOrford, @laurenbeukes, @ZakesMda & Mpho Tutu
— Nick Barley (@nickbarleyedin) June 24, 2014
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