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Thursday – 4th May 2017
George Bizos to deliver annual Nadine Gordimer Lecture at Wits
Advocate George Bizos will deliver this year’s Nadine Gordimer Lecture at Wits University.
Bookshy features 22 short story collections by African women writers
Bookshy has curated a list of short story collections by African women writers, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helen Oyeyemi, Sofia Samatar, Bessie Head, Petina Gappah and Lauren Beukes.
More than 200 free art books made available to download from the Guggenheim
Books of work by Picasso, Kandinsky, Lichtenstein, Flavin, Klimt and Rothko have been digitised and are now available for free.
Wednesday – 3rd May 2017
Help make a book happen: An A to Z of AmaZing South African Women
Meet the rebels, artists, troublemakers, athletes, dancing queens and freedom fighters that shaped our past – and are changing our future. Please help us print 1000 copies of this AmaZing book. It will make you feel proud for a change!
‘One of the greatest South African writers in our history’ – Max du Preez on Karel Schoeman
Max du Preez recalls his 2014 tribute to internationally renowned South African author Karel Schoeman (77), who died on Monday.
Arthur C Clarke Award for best science fiction shortlist announced!
The six shortlisted books for the Arthur C Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year published in 2016 have been revealed.
Tuesday – 2nd May 2017
Portrait of the poet as a young genius: Bongani Madondo reviews Koleka Putuma’s Collective Amnesia
Bongani Madondo on the strange musicality of Koleka Putuma’s debut poetry collection.
Internationally renowned South African author Karel Schoeman dies
Internationally renowned South African author Karel Schoeman (77) died on Monday night in the Noorderbloem old age home in Bloemfontein, where he lived for the past ten years, reports News24.
What Foreigners Need to Know About America From A to Z
This book is for anyone who interacts with Americans in the US or abroad and anyone–immigrants or visitors–who want more effective social or business relationships with Americans. It is also for those who simply want to learn more about the USA.
Clouds In The Wind
The captivating story of an ambitious young financial executive who, by force of circumstance, is drawn to a country embroiled in civil war.
For all the bookworms: 5 bookstores that seel ‘alternative’ literature
The Daily Vox team looks at five places that provide alternative literature to what’s in the mainstream.
Monday – 1st May 2017
Issue 1 of The Johannesburg Review of Books is out
We are delighted to present the first issue of The Johannesburg Review of Books—comprising almost twenty reviews, essays, articles, stories, poems, photographs and other items.
Sunday – 30th April 2017
‘The perilous state we’re in’ – John Kane-Berman at the launch of Between Two Fires
John Kane-Berman says getting rid of Zuma a necessary but not sufficient condition for reversing SA’s downward slide.
Read an excerpt from Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s new book The Republic of Gupta
In The Republic of Gupta, Pieter-Louis Myburgh delves deeper than ever before into the Guptas’ business dealings and their links to prominent South African politicians, and explains how one family managed to transform an entire country into the Repub
Friday – 28th April 2017
The Johannesburg Review of Books launched in South Africa
The Johannesburg Review of Books, a new publication giving a view of world literature through African eyes, debuts on May 1, 2017.
Mongane Wally Serote calls on government to prescribe more South African literature
Now, Serote urges the ministers of higher education and of basic education to prescribe more South African literature – literature representative of the voices of the South African people – in South African schools.
“We are a country with generation
Thursday – 27th April 2017
Chinelo Okparanta, Dinaw Mengestu and Yaa Gyasi make Granta’s list of the best young American novelists
Granta has chosen its third list of the ‘Best of Young American Novelists’, including the Nigeria-born Chinelo Okparanta, Ethiopia-born Dinaw Mengestu and Ghana-born Yaa Gyasi.
The new book by Chigozie Obioma – author of The Fishermen – has been announced
The Bookseller reports that Little, Brown has acquired the new novel from Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma.
Wednesday – 26th April 2017
‘I like the idea of a black girl kicking butt’ – Bontle Senne chats about her Afrocentric children’s books
Bontle Senne chatted to Beautiful News about her new Shadow Chasers series of books.
Help the African Speculative Fiction Society complete its list of all published African sci-fi/fantasy ever
The African Speculative Fiction Society has undertaken an ambitious project.