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Hungarian Author Laszlo Krasznahorkai Announced as 2015 Man Booker...
László Krasznahorkai is the winner of the Man Booker International Prize #MBI2015 pic.twitter.com/fotTW1OW0d — Man Booker Prize (@ManBookerPrize) May 19, 2015 Alert! László Krasznahorkai from...
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Rehana Rossouw Reviews Black Brain, White Brain: Is Intelligence Skin Deep?...
Verdict: carrot Evans studied economic history and law, has a PhD in politics and has worked as a journalist for 25 years. He has read widely on evolutionary biology, palaeontology, biological...
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All the Events to Look Forward to at the 2015 Kingsmead Book Fair in...
Are you ready for the 2015 Kingsmead Book Fair? The excitement is in the air as the fourth annual festival prepares to kick off on Saturday, 23 May, at Kingsmead College in Melrose, Johannesburg....
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Fangs and Clause Reviews Leaving Before The Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller
Verdict: carrot Instead of focusing on the tiny things that she did, “And then I wept,” she talks about the two cultures—of family, personality, and country of origin—that came into the marriage and...
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Fiction Friday: “Sunkissed” by 2015 Writivism Short Story Prize Longlisted...
The 2015 Writivism Short Story Prize Longlist has been announced, including one South African – Saaleha Bhamjee – on the list of 14 writers. Here’s the full longlist: “A Ball of Thread” by Vivian...
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Sunday Read: Explore the Work of 2015 Man Booker International Prize Winner...
One of the greatest things about literary prizes, whether local or international, is that it introduces readers to incredible works they might not have read or heard of before. This is true in the...
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Charles Thompson resenseer Roar Of The African Lion deur Chika Onyeani
Uitspraak: wortel Teen dié tyd klink dit dalk asof Roar of the African Lion meestal gal braak. Maar dit is beslis nie die geval nie. Die uiteindelike boodskap, hoewel dit ’n vermaning is, is eintlik...
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21 of Our Favourite Quotes from 2015 Franschhoek Literary Festival
We’ve collected the best of the quotes we can remember hearing at the 2015 Franschhoek Literary Festival. If you recall one that we’ve overlooked – or if you are an author who said something really...
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All the Highlights from the 2015 Kingsmead Book Fair in Joburg
The 2015 Kingsmead Book Fair was a rocking sensation! Speakers and authors came from far and wide to spend the day at Kingsmead College in Melrose, Johannesburg, and after a day filled with coffee,...
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Join Jason Hickel for the Launch of Democracy as Death at WiSER
WiSER would like to invite you to the launch of Democracy as Death: The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa by Jason Hickel. Hickel will be speaking about his book, which is a...
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John Boyne and Chris Bradford Speak About Writing Great Children’s Books at...
This year at the Franschhoek Literary Festival, international authors John Boyne and Chris Bradford discussed writing for young people in a panel discussion entitled “Wielding Words”, chaired by...
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Binyavanga Wainaina Explains why He’s Not “The Black Franzen from Africa”
Books LIVE sat down with Binyavanga Wainaina in Johannesburg today. The Kenyan author is in town to deliver a public lecture commemorating Africa Month at the Johannesburg Theatre tomorrow night,...
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21 Quotations to Remember Andre Brink, Who Would Have Turned 80 Today
Today would have been André Brink’s 80th birthday. To celebrate the memory of one of our literary giants we have shared 21 quotations from selected books, essays, articles and journals: 1. In love,...
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Sunday Read: An Excerpt from Salman Rushdie’s “Wildly Surreal” New Novel, Two...
The New Yorker has shared a story by Salman Rushdie entitled “The Duniazát”; taken from his forthcoming novel, “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-eight Nights“, which will be published in September....
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“Reinventing Pan-Africanism in the Age of Xenophobia”– Join the International...
The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) invites you to an international symposium entitled “Reinventing Pan-Africanism in the Age of Xenophobia”. The event is being hosted with...
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Carole Bloch, Ntombizanele Mahobe and Malusi Ntoyapi Accept PRAESA’s Astrid...
The Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA) has been awarded the 2015 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award at a cermony in Stockholm, Sweden. The announcement was made in...
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“Africa is Taking its Own Shape – and You are Not Even in that Conversation”–...
Binyavanga Wainaina says the youth of Africa have “stopped waiting” for their colonial custodians to “think the continent into being” – and have gone in search of adventure. Wainaina was in South...
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Nerine Dorman Reviews Beastkeeper by Cat Hellisen
Verdict: carrot One thing that Cat Hellisen does in her stories is immediately sweep readers away into her worlds that feel so tangible they might just exist on the very edge of our own, and this is...
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Sunday Read: Whose Genre is it Anyway? Neil Gaiman and Kazuo Ishiguro Discuss...
How would the works of JRR Tolkien or Charles Dickens have been received today? Why does escapist literature have such a bad wrap? Do books belong in boxes, as the critics would like us to believe?...
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Book Bites: 7 June 2015
The Runaway Horses Joyce Kotzè (Jonathan Ball Publishers) *** Book buff An ambitious tale of two branches of a family, one Boer, one Brit, during the turn of the last century. The novel is generous at...
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