AiW Guest: Jade Munslow Ong. AiW note: The 11th of December 2020 marks 100 years since Olive Schreiner’s death. Here, Jade Munslow Ong discusses Schreiner’s legacies as a pioneering feminist, anti-colonialist and author of the first South African novel. 100… Read More ›
South African writing
CFP: Writing South Africa Now
Writing South Africa Now in conjunction with the Southern African Poetry Project University of Cambridge 26-27 June 2015 Venue: The English Faculty, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom CFP deadline: April 15, 2015 Writing South Africa Now is the UK’s foremost… Read More ›
Sarah Lotz on Her New Global Thriller, ‘The Three’
Walking into Vroman’s—an independent bookstore in Pasadena, California, a place I’ve been coming since I was a kid—I was shocked to see Sarah Lotz’s name written neatly in red marker on the whiteboard announcing author talks. I’d just come back… Read More ›
Words on Teaching – Sipho Sepamla, literary realism and ‘A Ride on the Whirlwind’
By AiW Guest: An anonymous academic labourer, somewhere in the South-East of England. Recently I helped teach a course on South African protest and resistance literature. We looked at fiction and poetry from the late 1970s to the late 80s,… Read More ›
Q&A: Henrietta Rose-Innes – ‘New Voices from South Africa’ at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Henrietta Rose-Innes is an award-winning South African writer based in Cape Town. I was lucky enough to be able to catch her at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in advance of her session, ‘New Voices from South Africa’, which is on the… Read More ›