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Festival of Literature and Thought of South of Africa to be Held in Portugal
A number of African academics and authors will be taking part in the “Festival of Literature and Thought of south of Africa” to be held in Portugal, including Ivan Vladislavic, Harry Garuba, Joan...
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Teju Cole’s Open City Wins the International Literature Award – Haus der...
 > Teju Cole’s Open City has won the fifth annual International Literature Award – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, along with Christine Richter-Nilsson who translated the book into German. Cole...
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JM Coetzee, FML and YOLO: Best of @FunnyJMCoetzee Tweets
Following on from our previous lighthearted piece on JM Coetzee, today we bring you a collection of tweets from the amusing twitter account @FunnyJMCoetzee. The account, run anonymously, jokingly...
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RIP Tom Sharpe (1928 – 2013)
 > British humourist Tom Sharpe, who lived in South Africa from 1951 until 1961, has passed away at the age of 85, reports Belinda Goldsmith for Business Day. Sharpe’s 1971 debut novel,...
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Sunday Read: AM Homes Discusses Her Women’s Prize for Fiction Winning Novel,...
 > AM Homes won the Women’s Prize for Fiction earlier this week for her novel, May We be Forgiven. Mark Brown from The Guardian reported on Homes’ win, quoting one of the judges, Miranda...
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Book Review: Inferno by Dan Brown
By Lebohang Nthongoa for the Sunday Times I’m quite happy to be writing a review on a book when I have not read the writer’s previous work. This gives me me a clean slate to work from, with no...
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JM Coetzee’s “The Old Woman and the Cats” and Berlinde de Bruyckere’s...
Belgian artist Berlinda de Bruyckere’s exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennale, of which Nobel laureate JM Coetzee is the curator, has finally been revealed during the event’s opening week. Coetzee...
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Quick Reviews: Capturing the Light and Vengeance
By John Hogg and Derek Abdinor for The Times Capturing the Light by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport: As someone who learnt photography towards the end of the analogue era I feel, somewhat romantically...
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How to Kill a Nazi: Jackie May Interviews Laurent Binet
By Jackie May for The Times In theory, there is no reason HHhH should be as good as it is. Admittedly, it is based on an extraordinary historical event, the assassination of the Nazi Reinhard Heydrich...
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Andrew Donaldson: Banks Was Two Authors in One
By Andrew Donaldson for The Times: IF YOU READ ONE BOOK THIS WEEK Live by Night, by Dennis Lehane (Abacus) R165 THE son of a cop hangs out with a bunch of bad guys and becomes a gangster in Lehane’s...
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Berlinda de Bruyckere gesels oor JM Coetzee se kuratorskap van haar...
Die wêreldbekende Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer JM Coetzee tree tans as die kurator van Belgiese beeldhouer Berlinde de Bruyckere se uitstalling by die 55ste internasionale Venesiese Biënnale op. Berlinde de...
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Tom Robbins Reviews The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux
Verdict: carrot The world is full of jolly places but these do not interest me at all. I hate vacations, and luxurious hotels are no fun to read about. I want to read about the miserable, or difficult,...
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Sunday Read: Adam Gopnik Marvels at Gertrude Stein’s Influence on American...
Famous author, critic and playwright Gertrude Stein’s home on the Left Bank of Paris became refuge to many an American writer visiting the capitol of France. Stein emigrated from Oakland, California...
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Book Bites: Sunday 30 June 2013
Book buff Wave Sonali Deraniyagala (Little, Brown, R220) 4/5 stars Wave is Sonali Deraniyagala’s account of life after she lost her entire family — two young sons, her husband and her parents — in the...
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Loner in the Land of Conspiracy Theorists: William Saunderson-Meyer Talks to...
By William Saunderson-Meyer for the Sunday Times David Baldacci is one of the best selling writers in history, with 110 million copies sold in 45 languages. With the release of The Hit, the second...
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She Left Me the Gun: Sophy Kohler Interviews Emma Brockes
By Sophy Kohler for The Times One of the questions Emma Brockes deals with in her recently released memoir, She Left Me the Gun, is how to tell a horrific story in a way that is not exploitative,...
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Link Love: The After Coetzee Project Calls for Submissions of Short Fiction...
 > The After Coetzee Project is calling for submissions of short fiction that engages with animal subjects. The Project states that it is picking up where JM Coetzee left off after he...
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Jennifer Platt on Paula Deen: Y’all Are Still Buying Her Cookbooks
By Jennifer Platt for the Sunday Times US celebrity chef Paula Deen might have been shamed by her recent racial slurs, but they have done little to dent the sales of her books. Deen, who is famous for...
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Fifty Shades Movie on the Way
By Jennifer Platt for the Sunday Times Plans have been announced for the movie version of Fifty Shades of Grey, the bestselling novel that spawned the term “mommy porn”. Focus Features, a division of...
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Impressive List of Confirmed Authors for Open Book 2013 (7 – 11 September)
Added to the acclaimed international authors Ian Rankin, Patrick de Witt and Kamila Shamsie tapped earlier this year to attend Open Book 2013, is an impressive list of 50 other authors, currently...
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