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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun Film Unearthed Untold Stories...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written a moving piece about taking her family to watch the film adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun, although the movie is still being withheld from the Nigerian public...
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Sunday Read: J Philip Gabriel on Translating Haruki Murakami’s Colorless...
 > Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami released his latest book in his home country last year and within the first week over one million copies had been sold. The English edition, Colorless...
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RIP Dan Jacobson (1929 – 2014)
Author Dan Jacobson, born and raised in South Africa, has died at the age of 85. Following his childhood in Kimberley, Jacobson had married a teacher from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and moved to London...
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Book Bites: 15 June 2014
Fear Nothing Lisa Gardner (Headline) **** Book thrill Although Gardner has some irritating verbal mannerisms, she tells a terrific story: a thriller with some horror in places, and with considerable...
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Ben Williams Collects Five Quotes to Sum Up The Future of The Book
#STBooks: Reports of its Death are Exaggerated by Ben Williams for The Sunday Times This week, I gave a talk at the South African Book Fair on that vexed and vexing subject, The Future of the Book....
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Zoe Hinis Reviews Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
Verdict: carrot Broken Monsters follows in the tradition of Moxyland, Zoo City and The Shining Girls in using cities as characters, backdrops and plot points. In Broken Monsters, Detroit is both ruined...
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Dinaane Debut Fiction Award to Replace the European Union Literary Award
 > The Jacana Literary Foundation (JLF) has announced that from 2015 the European Union Literary Award will be replaced with the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award. The Foundation has been...
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Taiye Selasi and Kwame Dawes Make 2014 PEN Literary Awards Shortlist
Alert! The shortlists for the 2014 PEN Literary Awards have been announced, with Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go, and Ghanaian poet Kwame Dawe shortlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. PEN...
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Book Bites: 22 June 2014
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Claire North (Orbit Books) **** Book fiend There are plenty of Groundhog Day-type books and films out there, but this one is entertaining and fresh. Imagine the...
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Thomas Okes Reviews The Book of Forgiving by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu
Verdict: carrot The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World (HarperCollins) combines the delicate science of psychology with moments of intimate, often funny memoir. In...
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Final Caine Prize Fiction Friday: “My Father’s Head” by Okwiri Oduor
This Friday we bring you the fifth and final story that was shortlisted for the 2014 Caine Prize: Okwiri Oduor’s “My Father’s Head”. “My Father’s Head” won the 2013 Short Story Day Africa short...
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Varsha Lalla Reviews The Three by Sarah Lotz
Verdict: carrot South African author Sarah Lotz has created a masterpiece in this suspenseful, chilling and sometimes horrific story. Unlike many thriller writers, Lotz doesn’t delve into the gruesome....
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Should Science Fiction and Fantasy be Included in the “New Wave of African...
Nigerian American Science Fiction author Nnedi Okorafor has expressed “anger” at being left off a recent New York Times list of what it called the “New Wave” of African authors. The article, entitled...
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South Africa’s Iconic Stories: Exclusive Books Reveal Homebru Selection for 2014
Alert! Exclusive Books has announced the annual Homebru list, celebrating the best of South African fiction and non-fiction. There are 48 books on the list, including the shortlists for this year’s...
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Mahvesh Murad Reviews The Three by Sarah Lotz
Verdict: carrot It’s very easy to fall headfirst into The Three. It is not just the fear of the unknown that keeps you reading; it helps to have writing that flows so well, regardless of the frequent...
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Sunday Read: James Franco’s Poems are Rubbish
Why is everyone indulging James Franco? Charlotte Runcie certainly isn’t, in her review of his debut collection of poetry, Directing Herbert White. Verse in the voice of Lindsay Lohan? Not so fetch:...
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Dineke Volschenk resenseer The Story of Anna P, as Told by Herself deur Penny...
Uitspraak: wortel Busetto het die 2013-Europese Unie Literêre Prys gewen met hierdie novelle. Dit word jaarliks toegeken aan ’n Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer wat nog nie tevore gepubliseer het nie. Vorige...
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Ivan Vladislavić Congratulates the International Aubrey Tearle Proofreader’s...
A Gofer’s corrected manuscript of Ivan Vladislavić’s The Restless Supermarket earned him the crown in the inaugural International Aubrey Tearle Proofreader’s Derby. The competition, which is run by...
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Book Bites: 6 July 2014
Unimportance Thando Mgqolozana (Jacana) **** Book buff In turns hilarious and plaintive, Thando Mgqolozana’s finely-crafted third novel follows SRC presidential candidate Zizi in the hours before he...
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Falling Into Place: Why Local Authors are Setting their Novels Overseas
Lauren Beukes, Steven Boykey Sidley, Sarah Lotz, Zukiswa Wanner, Gareth Crocker, Damon Galgut, Michiel Heyns, Penny Busetto – the number of South African writers setting their novels overseas seems to...
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