Umuzi

Q&A with Marius Roux, GBAS Book Cover Design Award Finalist

By Africa in Words on 30 November , 2021 • ( 0 )

AiW note: Ahead of the announcement of the winner of the GBAS Book Cover Design Awards tomorrow, December 1st, we have been able to catch up with two of the finalists, Casper Schutte and Marius Roux. We asked them some… Read More ›

Season’s Readings from AiW’s #24Books

By Africa in Words on 25 December , 2019 • ( 0 )

Festive Favourites: Season’s Reading from Africa in Words

By Tom Penfold on 16 December , 2019 • ( 0 )

It is that time of year again when the holiday spirit begins to grow. For some, it is a time to spend with family and get away from it all. For others, the holidays might just be a good chance… Read More ›

Review: Ivan Vladislavić’s 101 Detectives

By Thando Njovane on 3 March , 2016 • ( 0 )

AiW Guest: Thando Njovane. As demonstrated by his substantial and sophisticated body of work, South Africa’s Ivan Vladislavić is certainly one of the most remarkable and versatile writers of our time. Vladislavić’s latest gift to letters is the insightful, elaborate,… Read More ›

Q&A: Masande Ntshanga

By Nomonde Ntsepo on 28 August , 2015 • ( 3 )

Posted in the run up to our review of the Caine Prize 2015 anthology Lusaka Punk and Other Stories, as part of a follow up series to our 2015 Blogging the Caine Prize – open to the ongoing public conversation the prize, and… Read More ›

Review: Nadia Davids’ ‘An Imperfect Blessing’ (Umuzi, 2014)

By Africa in Words Guest on 27 July , 2015 • ( 2 )

AiW Guest: Ed Charlton. In the same way as the vicissitudes of the weather—sudden hailstorms, raucous gales, sweltering humidity—often mark our experience of a place more vividly than any of the customary variations in climate, it is the petty familial… Read More ›

Q&A: S.J. Naudé in conversation with Carli Coetzee

By Africa in Words Guest on 9 July , 2015 • ( 3 )

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 Africa in Words Guest on 6 July , 2015 • ( 3 )

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 ›

New African fiction, poetry and non-fiction for the coming months

By Rebecca Jones on 6 April , 2015 • ( 1 )

As the seasons change and Spring begins to arrive here in the UK, it seems a good time look forward to some forthcoming African fiction, non-fiction and poetry releases due over the next few months. What are you looking forward… Read More ›

The Responsibility of Writing in/for/about South Africa – after the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2014

By Africa in Words Guest on 27 August , 2014 • ( 4 )

AiW Guest: James Smith. During the Edinburgh International Book Festival I managed to catch three South African authors, Lauren Buekes and C.A. Davids, and Mark Gevisser. Three authors, writing in three different genres (although I realize that ‘genre’ in itself… Read More ›

Damon Galgut at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 19 Aug, 2014

By Katie Reid on 25 August , 2014 • ( 1 )

An Edinburgh International Book Festival session with Damon Galgut: Arctic Summer (Umuzi/Atlantic, 2014). Part of the Book Festival’s ‘Voices from South Africa’ theme. Chaired by Claire Armitstead (Books Editor at the Guardian and the Observer). Arctic Summer is South African writer… Read More ›