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2015 National Arts Festival Line-up Announced: Including Dylan Moran of Black...
The line-up has been announced for the National Arts Festival, which will take place in Grahamstown from Thursday, 2 July to Sunday, 12 July this year. International visitors will include Irish...
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The Sydney Morning Herald Reviews Wolf, Wolf by Eben Venter
Verdict: carrot Like J M Coetzee (who said he was “deeply impressed … this is an outstanding novel”), Venter lives mostly in Australia. However, he visits South Africa often, and clearly spends enough...
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Obinna Udenwe Reviews Finding Love Again by Chioma Iwunza
Verdict: carrot Finding Love Again has a decidedly African feel. The characters are richly African in their attitudes, conversations, food, and clothing, etcetera. The story is garnished with rich...
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Jennifer Douglas Reviews Chase Your Shadow: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius by...
Verdict: carrot The Trials of Oscar Pistorius is more than a book about the event, it is a look into the life of Oscar from birth to committal. It gives us an insight into the person he is outside of...
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Join The Man Booker International Prize Judging Panel for a Discussion of the...
The Book Lounge would like to invite you to a discussion of the finalists for The Man Booker Prize. The panel of judges, who are announcing the finalists the evening before, will read excerpts from...
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Polygamy, Owning English and Ben Okri: NoViolet Bulawayo and Sue Nyathi Talk...
NoViolet Bulawayo and Sue Nyathi took part in a lively discussion at the 2015 Time of the Writer Festival in Durban last night, with the conversation touching on topics such as writing about...
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Fiction Friday: Read “Obio” by Nicola Coady from The Bundle of Joy and Other...
The Bundle of Joy and Other Stories from Africa, edited by Daniel Musiitwa, contains over 50 stories that run that breadth of the African continent in terms of the themes and countries they cover....
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“Writers are Readers. Readers are Writers”: Advice from MJ Mngadi and Ousmane...
MJ Mngadi and Malian writer Ousmane Diarra discussed Telling Stories, Bridging Divides, at the 2015 Time of the Writer Festival on Wednesday. The event was held at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre at...
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Sunday Read: “Night”, A Reflection on Sleep by Nobel Laureate Alice Munro
This coming week sees the announcement of the finalists for the 2015 Man Book International Prize, an event which will take place in Cape Town, South Africa. Therefore it seems fitting to present to...
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Christopher Hope Reviews Wolf, Wolf by Eben Venter for The Guardian
Verdict: carrot Eben Venter has lived in Australia for decades but exile has sharpened his perspective. Wolf, Wolf is a mesmerising novel. Much as Goldblatt’s portraits did in their time, he skewers...
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Man Booker International Prize Finalists Announced in Cape Town, Including...
Alert! The Man Booker International Prize 2015 nominees were announced in Cape Town at the University of Cape Town today. In the past the finalists have been announced in Toronto, New York and...
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Book Bites: 22 March 2015
Weathering Lucy Wood (Bloomsbury) ***** Book buff Whether you like ghost stories, explorations of relationships – particularly those between mothers and daughters – or simply enjoy beautiful...
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Tons of Tales, One Winner: Sophy Kohler Chats to Marina Warner, Chair of the...
By Sophy Kohler for the Sunday Times Less than a year after being pushed to resign from her professorship at the University of Essex, Dame Marina Warner has been awarded one of the world’s most...
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Simon Kuper Reviews Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War...
Verdict: carrot Angola has the same Gini coefficient for inequality as apartheid SA (though a touch better than today’s Manhattan). Yet this little-studied kleptocracy is an accepted part of the...
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Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut Shortlisted for 2015 Walter Scott Prize for...
Alert! Damon Galgut’s Arctic Summer has been shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. The Walter Scott Prize is one of the largest literary awards in the UK, with a total...
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“Fiction Consoles Strangely”: Global Literature, Translation and Book Tax...
The announcement of the finalists for the 2015 Man Booker International Award (MBI) also saw enlightening conversation around the topics of global literature, fiction, translation and the selection of...
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Kirkus Reviews Reviews I Am Because You Are by Jacob Lief, with Desmond Tutu...
Verdict: carrot Lief and Gwaxula realized the need to generate more creative ideas, from building a library and teaching about health and sexual abuse to creating a community center with a theater and...
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2015 Man Booker International Prize Judges Reveal How They Approached Their...
Marina Warner, Elleke Boehmer, Nadeem Aslam, Edwin Frank and Wen-chin Ouyang regrouped at The Book Lounge in Cape Town on Wednesday to discuss the process they followed to select the 10 finalists...
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Haruki Murakami to Move to South Africa
Now that noon has come around, we’re afraid we have to admit that, yes, this was an April Fool … Bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami has announced he will be moving to South Africa. Murakami,...
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PRAESA Wins 2015 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award – World’s Largest Award for...
Alert! The Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA) has won the 2015 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. PRAESA is an independent research and development unit affiliated...
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