Clik here to view.
Join Geoff Dyer in Conversation with Ivan Vladislavić at Love Books
The Wits School of Literature, Language and Media invites you to an evening with Geoff Dyer on Monday, 6 October, at Love Books in Melville. Ivan Vladislavić will be in conversation with the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Punters Put Karel Schoeman at 19/1 for the Nobel Prize in Literature
Alert! The bookmakers at Unibet have put acclaimed South African historian Karel Schoeman at 19/1 (20.00 in Decimal Odds) to win this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Schoeman is the author of a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Extract from JM Coetzee’s Forthcoming New Book The Good Story, Co-written...
Read an extract from JM Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz’s upcoming collaboration The Good Story: Exchanges on truth, fiction and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Kurtz is a consultant clinical psychologist...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Fruits of Fear: Ann Donald Chats to Hilary Mantel in London
By Ann Donald for the Sunday Times The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher Hilary Mantel (HarperCollins) ***** “Prick your fingers, and use the blood for ink,” Hilary Mantel advises would-be memoirists...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jonathan Amid Reviews The Story of Anna P, as Told by Herself by Penny Busetto
Verdict: carrot This strange and difficult novel carries us along on a tidal wave of carefully edited, finely wrought moments of sensual and moral awakening. The Story of Anna P as Told by Herself...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature To Be Announced Today
The 111th Nobel Laureate in Literature will be announced today, at 1 PM. The Swedish Academy received 210 valid nominations this year, 36 of those being first time nominees, but apart from that little...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Patrick Modiano has Been Awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
Alert! The Swedish Academy has chosen French author Patrick Modiano as the 111th Nobel Laureate in Literature. The 69-year-old becomes the 11th Literature Laureate born in France, although he is yet...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Totalt Chockad”: Patrick Modiano Reacts to Winning the Nobel Prize in...
The Swedish press reports that French author Patrick Modiano is “totalt chockad” at being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature today. Read: Patrick Modiano has Been Awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Does Ngugi wa Thiong’o Have to Do to Win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Yesterday the Swedish Academy surprised the world when they awarded the 111th Nobel Prize in Literature to French author Patrick Modiano. In the weeks leading up to the award, Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sunday Read: Excerpts from Nobel Prize Winner Patrick Modiano’s Novels...
French author Patrick Modiano became the 111th Nobel Laureate in Literature this week. At the award announcement, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Peter Englund made everyone feel slightly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Book Bites: 12 October 2014
Meatspace Nikesh Shukla (HarperCollins) *** Book buff I wanted to hate Meatspace, an at-times clunky second novel by a social media-obsessed British-Asian writer, about a social media-obsessed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This is Truly Original – Ask The Author: Jennifer Malec Chats to Geoff Dyer
By Jennifer Malec for the Sunday Times: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi Geoff Dyer (Canongate) **** Geoff Dyer is renowned for blurring the border between fiction and non-fiction in his books. In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Join Keith Breckenridge, Achille Mbembe, Sharad Chari and Ivor Chipkin for...
WiSER and the programme of Public Positions on History and Politics would like to invite you to the launch of Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Richard Flanagan Wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the...
Alert! Richard Flanagan has won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his book, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. In addition to an instant worldwide increase in book sales, the author receives £50 000....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sarie resenseer boeke gegrond op die waarheid, insluitend Here I am, Die...
Uitspraak: wortels Here I am, PJ Powers saam met Marianne Thamm (Penguin, R195) Die dramatiese eerste hoofstuk van PJ Powers se lewensverhaal het my vasgevang soos ’n vis aan ’n hoek en ek moes net...
View ArticleClik here to view.
South Africa Represented at the Africa39 Events at the Port Harcourt Book...
Shafinaaz Hassim and Zukiswa Wanner will represent South Africa at Africa39 events at the Port Harcourt Book Festival, Nigeria, this weekend. The Africa39 list, which was unveiled in April at the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sunday Read: Haruki Murakami’s Short Story “Scheherazade”– A Man Who Can’t...
The New Yorker has published a previously untranslated short story by Haruki Murakami – the Japanese author who has been bookies’ favourite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for many years. 2014...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Margie Orford Elected to the Board of PEN International
Alert! Margie Orford has been elected to the board of PEN international, the non-political organisation established to promote global literature and freedom of expression. Orford, a celebrated...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Authors Blown Away by 2014 Open Book Festival
Local and international authors who attended the 2014 Open Book Festival in Cape Town have shared their reactions to the event on various platforms. In general the five-day literary feast seems to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video: Lauren Beukes Continues Her International Conquests with Broken...
Lauren Beukes is continuing her quest to conquer the world with her genre-defying thrillers, Broken Monsters and The Shining Girls. Over in Australia, Beukes was featured on Booktopia, “the voice of...
View Article