AiW Guest: Sanya Osha …with a longer form read for us, at around 2.5k words… The recent ‘cancellation’ of Die Antwoord – the South African ‘zef’ subculture-proclaiming, alternative hip hop duo – and their subsequent withdrawal from the public eye,… Read More ›
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Review of The Chameleon House: Short Stories by Melissa de Villiers
AiW Guest: Anu Kumar In the title story in Melissa de Villiers’ collection The Chameleon House (Modjaji Books, 2015), Dena, the one who seemingly holds the group together, is always the outsider. As the unnamed narrator reveals, Dena tastes the… Read More ›
Q&A: S.J. Naudé in conversation with Carli Coetzee
By AiW Guests: S.J. Naudé and Carli Coetzee. AiW note: S.J. Naudé was born in South Africa and studied at Cambridge University and Columbia University. After practising law in New York and London for many years, he returned to South Africa for… Read More ›
Review: SJ Naudé, ‘The Alphabet of Birds’.
By AiW Guest: Carli Coetzee. AiW note: this review is accompanied by a Q&A between Carli Coetzee and S J Naudé here. S J Naudé’s collection of short stories appeared in an Afrikaans language version (Alfabet van die Voëls, Umuzi) in 2011,… Read More ›