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“A New Cartography for Africa”, the Latest Edition of Chimurenga’s The...
Chimurenga has just released the latest edition of their quarterly gazette The Chronic: New Cartographies. The issue concerns itself with devising a “New Cartography for Africa”, as the way that...
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Amanda Botha resenseer Hope in a Ballet Shoe deur Michaela en Elaine DePrince
Uitspraak: wortel Die verhaal van Michaela DePrince is ’n ontroerende leeservaring wat insigte bied in die hel waarin baie kinders van Afrika leef en sterf. Dit is ook ’n verhaal van geloof in...
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“The Unique Gift of the Short Story”– Henrietta Rose-Innes on Writing and the...
Bloomsbury Publishing has shared an extract from its new publication Writing Short Stories: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion, featuring writing advice from Henrietta Rose-Innes. Rose-Innes’ much...
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Fiction Friday: Excerpt from Ayesha Harruna Attah’s Saturday’s Shadows
This Fiction Friday, read an excerpt from Ayesha Harruna Attah’s second novel, Saturday’s Shadows. Ayesha was born in Accra, Ghana, and educated in the United States, at Mount Holyoke College in...
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Sunday Read: How an Item of Clothing Caused a Swift Divorce in “Lederhosen”...
In the spirit of April fool’s Books LIVE announced on Wednesday that Japanese bestselling author Haruki Murakami was moving to South Africa. We didn’t convince anyone – our Facebook and Twitter...
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The Global South, Migration, Empire and Diaspora: A Panel Discussion by the...
The Man Booker International Prize judges took part in a panel discussion at the University of Cape Town recently, exploring the concept of the Global South, and the role of the prize in shaping and...
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Read “Apollo”, a New Short Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Published in The...
The New Yorker has published a new short story by Nigerian literary darling Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in their latest issue. The story is titled “Apollo” and tells of Okenwa, a young man who visits his...
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Caine Prize Workshops Underway in Ghana: Organisers Hope to Encourage Entries...
12 writers are currently hard at work in this year’s Caine Prize for African Writing workshops, taking place in at the Coconut Grove Hotel in Elmina, Ghana. It's a full house tonight #writers...
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Nma Uche Reviews All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
Verdict: carrot What did I like? The names. Yes, I enjoyed all the names the characters could take up at different phases in their lives and the struggle to maintain an identity. All Our Names...
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Sunday Read: An Excerpt from George RR Martin’s Much Anticipated The Winds of...
George RR Martin, the author of the wildly popular Song of Ice and Fire Series, has shared a chapter excerpted from the forthcoming installment The Winds of Winter. The publication date for The...
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ZP Dala Clarifies Her Admittance to Mental Health Facility
ZP Dala has clarified the situation surrounding her admittance to a mental healthcare facility in Durban. Dala was attacked for expressing admiration for Salman Rushdie’s “literary style” at the...
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RIP Gunter Grass (1927 – 2015)
Nobel Prize-winning German author Günter Wilhelm Grass has died at the age of 87. Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). He served as a soldier in the Nazi Waffen SS...
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ZP Dala Releases Statement Through PEN South Africa
ZP Dala has released an official statement through PEN South Africa, thanking the organisation for helping to secure her released from St Joseph’s psychiatric hospital in Durban. Dala was attacked...
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This Year’s Franschhoek Literary Festival Guest Sarah Waters the Favourite...
The shortlist for the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced: Rachel Cusk, Laline Paull, Kamila Shamsie, Ali Smith, Anne Tyler, and Sarah Waters. The prize, formerly known as the...
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Book Bites: 12 April 2015
The Underground Girls of Kabul: The Hidden Lives of Afghan Girls Disguised as Boys Jenny Nordberg (Little Brown) ***** Book buff There have always been women who pass themselves off as men – but in...
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Cupid’s Arrow is a Knife: Pearl Boshomane Reviews Monica Sabolo’s All This...
By Pearl Boshomane for the Sunday Times All This Has Nothing To Do With Me Monica Sabolo (Pan Macmillan) **** Getting your heart broken sucks. We all know this. You don’t need me to tell you about it....
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Jacket Notes: Peter Swanson Discusses His New Novel The Kind Worth Killing
Published in the Sunday Times The Kind Worth Killing Peter Swanson The book began as a simple premise. I pictured a drunk man on a plane, telling the stranger next to him that he was thinking of...
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Tammy February Reviews Beastkeeper by Cat Hellisen
Verdict: carrot Forget all you know about the original version of Beauty and the Beast, because Cat Hellisen takes this timeless tale and twists it into a narrative that is as dark as it is hopeful, as...
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Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Open Book...
Alert! Teju Cole has made the shortlist for the PEN Open Book Award with his novel Every Day is for the Thief. PEN America confers a number of prizes annually in a number of categories, awarding a...
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The Mists of Peace: Michele Magwood Speaks to Kazuo Ishiguro About His Novel...
By Michele Magwood for the Sunday Times The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber) **** It’s been a while since I felt a glow of pride in South Africa, the muscle memory of post-94 euphoria...
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