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Is your reading really ‘useful’? Maryse Condé in Cape Town – ‘The Story of the Cannibal Woman’

By C E Hastings on 1 June , 2015 • ( 3 )

I’ve recently picked up Tim Parks’ collection of essays Where I’m Reading From: The Changing World of Books (2014). One of the essays in Part 2, ‘The Book In the World’, entitled ‘Writing Adrift in the World’, critiques post-colonial literary… Read More ›

Some South African Literary Events in focus this week

By Katie Reid on 17 March , 2015 • ( 0 )

Congratulations to Songeziwe Mahlangu who has won the #EtisalatPrize2014 #EtisalatPrizeforLiterature! — pen_southafrica (@pen_southafrica) March 15, 2015 As South African writer Songeziwe Mahlangu, with his novel Penumbra (Kwela, 2013), is announced as the winner of the second Etisalat Prize for Literature –… Read More ›