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Details of Petina Gappah’s next novel Out of Darkness, Shining Light revealed!
Scribner beat out seven other publishing houses to win the North American rights to Petina Gappah’s next novel Out of Darkness, Shining Light, as well as her short story collection Rotten Row.
NB Publishers sells overseas rights to a number of South African books, including The President’s Keepers, Being Kari and The Quiet Violence of Dreams
NB Publishers has sold overseas rights to a number of South African publications, including Jacques Pauw’s political exposé The President’s Keepers, Eugene de Kock: Assassin for the State by Anemari Jansen, Julian Jansen’s The De Zalze Murders, Marianne Thamm’s Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and Me, K Sello Duiker’s novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams and Qarnita Loxton’s novel Being Kari.
Cover revealed for Sea Prayer – the new book by Khaled Hosseini, bestselling author of The Kite Runner
The cover for Khaled Hosseini’s new novel Sea Prayer has been revealed!
Golden Man Booker Prize launched to find the best ever Booker Prize-winning novel
All 51 previous winners of the Man Booker Prize will compete for a once-off ‘Golden’ Man Booker Prize this year.
Don’t miss William Kentridge and Denis Hirson in conversation at the launch of Footnotes for the Panther
Fourthwall Books invites you to the launch of Footnotes for the Panther: Conversations Between William Kentridge and Denis Hirson.
2018 9mobile Prize for Literature shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2017 9mobile Prize for Literature (formerly the Etisalat Prize for Literature) has been announced.
Pseudonymous author Elena Ferrante named new Guardian columnist
Bestselling Italian writer Elena Ferrante is to write her first ever regular newspaper column, in the Guardian.
The ‘biggest political exposé of the year’: The President’s Keepers by Jacques Pauw
An explosive new book is making waves in South Africa.
She tells it like it is, and some don’t want to hear it – USA Today features Koleka Putuma
South Africa’s new generation of slam poets, with Koleka Putuma the ‘leading light’, has been featured by Alexa Cole for USA Today.
2017 Writivism Prize shortlists announced – with stories from South Africa, Cameroon, Malawi and Nigeria
The shortlists for the 2017 Writivism Short Story Prize and the Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Non-fiction have been announced!
South African youngsters beat world’s best at ‘the Olympics of reading’
A team of four South African boys has won the World Final of the global Kids Lit Quiz in Toronto, Canada – an event widely known as ‘the Olympics of reading’.
Two new Zadie Smith books announced, including her first historical novel
Two new books by Zadie Smith have been announced: a collection of her best short fiction over almost two decades, and her first work of historical fiction.
Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death in development at HBO with George RR Martin as executive producer
Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Who Fears Death is in development as a TV series at HBO, with George RR Martin executive producing.
Karl Ove Knausgaard wins 2017 Jerusalem Prize for literature
Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard has been awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society.
Roger Moore completed book manuscript two weeks before he died
James Bond star Roger Moore completed the manuscript for an as-yet-untitled book just two weeks before his death, The Bookseller reports.
2017 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize shortlist announced
After months of evaluation and deliberation it is finally time to reveal the shortlist for the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, in association with Porcupine Ridge. The winner, who will receive R100 000, will be announced on Saturday June 24.
2017 Alan Paton Award for non-fiction shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction has been announced!
H Melt and Victor Yates win Lambda Literary’s Judith A Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers
Lambda Literary, a nonprofit organisation promoting LGBTQ literature in the United States, has announced the recipients of the 2017 Judith A Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers.
William Kentridge wins the Princess of Asturias Award, Spain’s most prestigious art prize
William Kentridge has been awarded Spain’s most prestigious art prize, the Princess of Asturias award.
Zakes Mda’s message for Africa Month
The theme for Africa Month this year is ‘The Year of OR Tambo: Building a Better Africa and a Better World’.