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 ›
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 ›
NEWS (no longer quite breaking): A. Gofer (c/o Steph Newell) has won the inaugural International Aubrey Tearle Proofreader’s Derby (fittingly restlessly re-named from the 2014 Restless Derby). The neck-and-neck runners up are Catharine Morris aka Words and Things, and Kai… Read More ›
| online | Norwich | London | Brighton | Cambridge | with J.M. Coetzee and No Violet Bulawayo at the Worlds Literature Festival in Norwich, 19 June And Patrick Flanery for ‘Camera Obscura: a View of South Africa’, 25 June… Read More ›
| REGISTER for the 2014 Restless Derby | Judged by The Restless Supermarket author Ivan Vladislavić. The winner is to be announced at a celebratory awards ceremony at the University of Sussex on Monday 23rd June, from 3.30pm. Vladislavić, recognised as… Read More ›
Teju Cole introducing Ivan Vladislavic in Chelsea: “One of the best writers in the world… one of the great modern prose stylists.” Agreed. — Africa is a Country (@AfricasaCountry) November 5, 2013 (Tweeted from 192 Books in New York, where Teju Cole, author… Read More ›
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