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South African YouTube sensation Caspar Lee announces a book
Caspar Lee, the South African YouTube star with a 7.6-million subscriber-base, has announced that he will be publishing a memoir. The book, written in collaboration with the 21-year-old’s mother...
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Patrick Rosenquist reviews Blackass by A Igoni Barrett
Verdict: carrot Barrett’s highly anticipated first novel centers on Furo Wariboko, a young black Nigerian who wakes up one day to discover he’s white. The Kafkaesque conceit plays out in a deadpan...
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eThekwini libraries buy 2 copies of every book by all Time of the Writer...
The eThekwini Municipality Libraries Department will purchase two copies of each book by every writer featured at the Time of the Writer Festival this year. The 19th Time of the Writer kicks off in...
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Etisalat Prize to donate 1,000 books to eThekwini libraries for Time of the...
The Etisalat Prize for Literature will be donating 1,000 books to an eThekwini Municipality library, in support of the Time of the Writer Festival. The 19th Time of the Writer, presented by the...
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2016 Man Booker International Prize longlist revealed – including Congolese...
Alert! The 2016 Man Booker International Prize longlist has been revealed, including Fiston Mwanza Mujila, who hails from Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angolan author José Eduardo Agualusa....
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Open Book Festival shortlisted for London Book Fair International Excellence...
Alert! The Open Book Festival has been shortlisted for a 2016 London Book Fair International Excellence Award in the category Literary Festivals. The other events up for The Literary Festival Award...
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Countdown to Etisalat Prize for Literature announcement: Multi-city book tour...
On Saturday, 19 March, the winner of the third edition of the Etisalat Prize for Literature will emerge. The Etisalat Prize is a pan-African award for debut authors of published novels. The...
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Read an excerpt from the novel everybody is talking about: Tram 83 by Fiston...
This Fiction Friday, read an excerpt from Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, which is shortlisted for the soon-to-be-announced Etisalat Prize for Literature and was recently longlisted for the Man...
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Decolonising the book: Thando Mgqolozana explains this year’s Time of the...
The 2016 Time of the Writer Festival kicks off in Durban today, Monday 14 March. The Centre for Creative Arts announced a change in venues and a special programme for the Time of the Writer this...
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Wag on a wagon: Michele Magwood reviews AA Gill’s memoir Pour Me: A Life
AA Gill was once a raging drunk. Now he’s an enragingly brilliant critic, writes Michele Magwood for the Sunday Times Pour Me: A Life AA Gill (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) ***** When AA Gill woke up one...
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All you need to know about the international authors at the 2016 Franschhoek...
The Franschhoek Literary Festival will take place on the 13, 14 and 15 May this year. Here’s all the information you need on the authors, illustrators and publishers visiting from distant lands. The...
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Once upon a time on the Cape Flats – the story of Zephany Nurse
Zephany Nurse’s fate, to be stolen at birth, is a real-life version of an archetypal myth, writes Sue de Groot for the Sunday Times “Your story is a fairytale,” Judge John Hlophe said on Thursday to...
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Book Bites: 13 March 2016
Published in the Sunday Times Orphan #8 Kim van Alkemade (HarperCollins) Book buff **** A remarkable debut that tells the story of Rachel Rabinowitz, a young girl in a Jewish orphanage in New York...
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila wins 2015 Etisalat Prize for Tram 83
Alert! Congolese author Fiston Mwanza Mujila has won the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature for Tram 83. The Etisalat Prize is a pan-African award for debut authors of published novels. 100 entries...
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Kirkus Reviews reviews Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Verdict: carrot Stylistically quirky and unorthodox fiction from Africa. Perhaps contrary to one’s expectations, the title refers not to a British streetcar but to a seedy nightclub in an unnamed...
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12 writers from 6 African countries converge in Zambia for the Caine Prize...
12 writers from six African countries have converged at the Chaminuka Lodge near Lusaka, Zambia, where they will spend 13 days (18 March-29 March) to write, read and discuss work in progress and...
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Book Bites: 20 March 2016
Published in the Sunday Times An Imperfect Occupation: Enduring the South African War John Boje (University of Illinois Press) Book buff **** Drawing on a rich pool of primary sources, this is oral and...
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New Ngugi wa Thiong’o story translated into over 30 African languages in...
The latest edition of Jalada Africa contains a new short story by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o translated into over 30 African languages, making it the “single most translated short story in the history of...
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How silk and sultans shaped the world: Helen Moffett reviews The Silk Roads...
Published in the Sunday Times The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Peter Frankopan (Bloomsbury) **** At the age of 12, I did a project on the Great Silk Road that linked the fabled courts of...
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An emotional rollercoaster: Olivier Moreillon reviews Affluenza by Niq Mhlongo
His finger-on-the-pulse reports of post-apartheid South Africa’s social complexities and challenges have rightly established Niq Mhlongo as part of a younger generation of black South African...
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