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Fiction Friday: Two Excerpts from The Maestro, the Magistrate and the...
This Fiction Friday, read two excerpts from Tendai Huchu’s latest novel The Maestro, the Magistrate & the Mathematician. Huchu’s first novel, The Hairdresser of Harare, was released in 2010 to...
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Winners of the 2015 Short Story Day Africa Competition Announced
Alert! The winner of the 2015 Short Story Day Africa competition has been announced at the Aké Arts and Book Festival in Abeokuta, Nigeria. South African author Cat Hellisen has taken first place,...
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5 Sunday Reads, Including a New Novel by Don DeLillo, The Early Stories of...
1. Don DeLillo’s new novel, ‘Zero K,’ announced From Los Angeles Times: “This week, Don DeLillo will accept the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters — its...
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Sunday Read: Travel Back in Time with a Millennia-spanning Twitter Story by...
The latest issue of the award-winning Asymptote Journal takes readers back in time with exclusive writings and translations from 24 countries exploring the theme of time travel. The trailer for the...
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Exploring Dark Territory: Michele Magwood Reviews Career of Evil by Robert...
By Michele Magwood for the Sunday Times Career of Evil Robert Galbraith (Sphere) **** “I can’t remember ever enjoying writing a novel more than Career of Evil,” writes JK Rowling in the...
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The Books That Built Me, by Tony Park
Published in the Sunday Times An Empty Coast Tony Park (Pan Macmillan) My mother started me reading early and may have shaped my later choices in life by introducing me to the works of Captain WE...
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Book Bites: 22 November 2015
Tennison Lynda LaPlante (Simon & Schuster) *** Book thrill If you are a Prime Suspect fan, this is a satisfying prequel of Jane Tennison’s salad days as a young copper. It’s 1973, chauvinism is de...
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Poet Ashraf Fayadh Sentenced to Death in Saudi Arabia – Add Your Name to...
Ishtiyaq Shukri has called on artists, poets and writers to add their names to his letter of appeal for Ashraf Fayadh, the Palestinian poet who has been sentenced to death by Saudi Arabian...
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Miners Shot Down Wins 2015 International Emmy Award for Best Documentary...
Rehad Desai’s documentary Miners Shot Down has won a 2015 International Emmy Award for Best Documentary. In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat...
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15 South African Debut Novels from 2015
With new books from Ivan Vladislavić, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Finuala Dowling, Christopher Hope, among others, there’s no denying some great South African fiction was produced in 2015 from established...
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7 South Africans Make the 2015 Morland Writing Scholarships Shortlist
Alert! The Miles Morland Foundation has announced the shortlist for the 2015 Morland Writing Scholarships, including seven South Africans. 21 applicants have made the shortlist, including six from...
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Jane Rosenthal Reviews The Magistrate of Gower, The Shouting in the Dark,...
Verdict: carrots Two excellent historical novels set in South Africa are Shouting in the Dark by Elleke Boehmer (Jacana, 2015) and The Magistrate of Gower (Umuzi, 2015) by Claire Robertson. In both...
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French Translation Deal for Karen Jennings’ Novel Finding Soutbek
Alert! Holland Park Press have announced a French publishing deal for Karen Jennings’ novel Finding Soutbek. Les éditions de l’Aube will produce the French language version of the novel, which was...
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A Renewed Interest in Literature from Africa: Trailblazer Cassava Republic...
Leading African publishing house Cassava Republic Press has announced that it will be launching in the United Kingdom, in order to “spotlight the vibrancy and diversity of prose by African writers...
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The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma Up for the 2015 Guardian First Book Award –...
2015 has been a big year for Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma, with his “truly magnificent” debut novel being nominated for various big awards and included on a vast amount of “best of” lists. The...
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Andrew McMillan Becomes the First Poet to Win the 2015 Guardian First Book Award
Alert! The 2015 Guardian First Book Award has been won by Andrew McMillan, for his collection of poems, Physical. Only two poets have ever made the shortlist for the £10 000 (about R215 000) prize...
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Urgent Appeal for Assistance to Raise Funds for Binyavanga Wainaina’s Medical...
Kwani Trust has set up a fundraiser to raise resources for urgent medical treatment for beloved Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina. Wainaina suffered a stroke on 31 October, and needs to travel to...
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Stephen Marks Reviews Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War...
Verdict: carrot In this tight, lucidly written, and impressively researched survey Ricardo Soares de Olivera teases out the themes and threads that explain or at least illuminate the paradoxes. The...
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Don’t Miss the First International Long Story Short: Hlubi Mboya Reading...
Long Story Short is excited to announce its first international reading at the 2015 Ba re e ne re Literature Festival in Maseru, Lesotho. Hlubi Mboya will be reading from The Sculptors of Mapungubwe...
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RIP Mark Behr (1963 – 2015)
Author Mark Behr has passed away in Johannesburg, at the age of 52, reportedly of a heart attack. Behr was born in Tanzania in 1963, and grew up in South Africa. His first published novel, The Smell...
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