Alert! The Open Book Festival kicks off in Cape Town tomorrow morning. Check out a selection of the most exciting bookish events to hit the Mother City!
For fiction fans, 2014 Sunday Times Fiction Prize winner Claire Robertson will be chatting about her new book, The Magistrate of Gower and Petina Gappah will be chatting about The Book of Memory, the newly released – and long awaited – follow up to her award-winning first book.
There’s also plenty for the non-fiction aficionados, including a fascinating discussion on the Boston bombing and the Breivik massacre, moderated by Jonny Steinberg, and a frank discussion on labour featuring Onkgopotse JJ Tabane and Zwelinzima Vavi.
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See also:
- 2015 Open Book Festival Programme (9 – 13 September)
- 2015 Open Book: Don’t Miss the Chance to Hone Your Writing Craft with Workshops and Masterclasses (9 – 13 September)
- All the Poetica Events to Look Forward at the 2015 Open Book Festival (9 – 13 September)
Wednesday, 9 September
Magistrate of Gower
Venue: Fugard Studio
Time: 4.00 – 5.00 PM
Price: R45
Patrick Gale asks the questions; Claire Robertson gives the answers.
Sugar Man
Venue: Fugard Studio
Time: 8.00 – 9.00 PM
Price: R45
Stephen Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom discuss their Rodriguez journey with Andrew Donaldson.
Thursday, 10 September
Let’s Talk Frankly About Labour
Venue: Fugard Theatre
Time: 2.00 – 3.00 PM
Price: R45
Onkgopotse JJ Tabane and Zwelinzima Vavi talk about labour in South Africa. Chaired by Ryland Fisher.
Dibookeng Presents Speed Booking
Venue: Truth & Coffee
Time: 5.30 – 7.00 PM
Price: R100
Speed dating for book lovers! Special guests Nakhane Touré and Sally Partridge.
Sexual Politics
Venue: Fugard Studio
Time: 6.00 – 7.00 PM
Price: R45
ZP Dala, Saskia Goldschmidt and Nthikeng Mohlele answer Pumla Gqola’s questions.
The Book of Memory
Venue: Fugard Studio
Time: 8.00 – 9.00 PM
Price: R45
Petina Gappah discusses her debut novel with Lauren Beukes.
Friday, 11 September
Wanting More
Venue: Fugard Theatre
Time: 11.00 AM – 1.00 PM
Price: Free entry
How do we increase sales of SA English fiction? A roundtable discussion with audience participation.
Participants:
Arthur Attwell
Lauren Beukes
Steve Connolly
CA Davids
Colleen Higgs
John Hunt
Thabiso Mahlape
Terry Morris
Svante Weyler
Mervyn Sloman
Benjamin Trisk
Terror
Venue: Fugard Studio
Time: 12.00 – 1.00 PM
Price: R45
Masha Gessen (The Tsarnaev Brothers) and Åsne Seierstad (One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway) speak to Jonny Steinberg about the Boston bombing and the Breivik massacre.
Piggy Boy’s Blues
Venue: Fugard Annexe 2
Time: 2.00 – 3.00 PM
Price: R45
Mervyn Sloman chats to Nakhane Touré and his editor Thabiso Mahlape about his debut novel.
Writer Sports
Venue: Fugard Theatre
Time: 8.00 – 9.00 PM
Price: R45
Live writing onstage! Audience suggests subjects and genre and the writers get to it. Featuring Lauren Beukes, Khaya Dlanga, Patrick Gale, Petina Gappah, Fred Strydom, Laura van den Berg and Kathryn White. MC: Ben Williams.
Saturday, 12 September
RMF Assembly
Venue: Fugard Theatre
Time: 10.00 – 11.00 AM
Price: Free entry
Race and Sexuality: Mbali Matandela (Rhodes Must Fall), Nakhane Touré and Aneliswa Mbude (Open Stellenbosch) discuss dismantling sexual hierarchies in Black-led social movements. Chaired by Thato Pule (RMF Trans Collective)
James Baldwin
Venue: Fugard Studio
Time: 2.00 – 3.00 PM
Price: R45
Alain Mabanckou presents his literary tribute, Letter to Jimmy, in conversation with Derrick Higginbotham.
Karen Joy Fowler: We are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Venue: Fugard Theatre
Time: 2.00 – 3.00 PM
Price: R45
Michele Magwood gets the lowdown from Karen Joy Fowler about her bestselling novel.
Foreign Gods, Inc.
Venue: Fugard Annexe 2
Time: 4.00 – 5.00 PM
Price: R45
Nancy Onyango (This is Africa) questions Okey Ndibe about his remarkable novel.
Sunday, 13 September
Caine Prize Presents Namwali Serpell
Venue: Fugard Annexe 2
Time: 4.00 – 5.00 PM
Price: R45
Namwali Serpell, winner of the 2015 Caine Prize, discusses her short story, “The Sack”, with Caine Prize judge and author Neel Mukherjee.
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- The Magistrate of Gower by Claire Robertson
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- A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
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- Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez by Craig Bartholomew Strydom, Stephen Segerman
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- Let’s Talk Frankly: Letters to Influential South Africans About the State of Our Nation by Onkgopotse JJ Tabane, illustrated by Sifiso Yalo
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- Sharp Edges by SA Partridge
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- What About Meera by ZP Dala
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- Die hormoonfabriek by Saskia Goldschmidt, edited by Daniel Hugo
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- Rusty Bell by Nthikeng Mohlele
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- Rape: A South African Nightmare by Pumla Dineo Gqola
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- The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
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- Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
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- The Blacks of Cape Town by CA Davids
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- Looking for Trouble by Colleen Higgs
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- The Space Between the Space Between by John Hunt
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- Sweet Medicine by Panashe Chigumadzi
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- The Tsarnaev Brothers: The Road to a Modern Tragedy by Masha Gessen
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- One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Asne Seierstad
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- A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg
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- Piggy Boy’s Blues by Nakhane Toure
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- Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
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- To Quote Myself by Khaya Dlanga
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- A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
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- The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
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- The Raft by Fred Strydom
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- Find Me by Laura van den Berg
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- Anna Peters’ Year of Cooking Dangerously by Kathryn White
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- Piggy Boy’s Blues by Nakhane Toure
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- Letter to Jimmy by Alain Mabanckou
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- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
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- Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe
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- Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
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