Fiction
Friday – 12th May 2017
Don’t miss the launch of new short story collection Queer Africa 2
Queer Africa 2, the follow-up anthology to Queer Africa: new and collected fiction, will be launched at Wits University on 3 June.
Lidudumalingani’s Caine Prize-winning story ‘Memories We Lost’ translated into Spanish
María J López, an academic based at the University of Córdoba, Spain, has translated Lidudumalingani’s short story ‘Memories We Lost’ into Spanish for the Cuban-based journal Revolución y Cultura.
Thursday – 11th May 2017
Read Zakes Mda’s fantastic response to ‘Do you get writer’s block?’
Zakes Mda has written a great response to a fan who asked ‘Don’t you ever get writer’s block?’
Forget flowers – spoil your mum with books!
Enter the Penguin Random House South Africa Mother’s Day competition!
Don’t miss Pan Macmillan authors at the Kingsmead Book Fair!
Will we see you at the Kingsmead Book Fair this weekend?
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.
Wednesday – 10th May 2017
Namwali Serpell chats to Efemia Chela about writing, and her upcoming novel
Namwali Serpell spoke to Efemia Chela recently for a Short Story Day Africa interview.
Tuesday – 9th May 2017
Michiel Heyns chats to the Sunday Times about his new novel I am Pandarus
Anton Ferreira chatted to Michiel Heyns recently for the Sunday Times about his new retelling of Troilus and Criseyde, I am Pandarus.
Don’t miss Imraan Coovadia and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim at the Goethe-Institut Literary Crossroads
Imraan Coovadia and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim will be at the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg for a Literary Crossroads conversation on 16 May.
Bill Clinton and James Patterson team up to write political thriller
Bestselling author James Patterson is teaming up with former United States President Bill Clinton to write a new novel, The President Is Missing.
Monday – 8th May 2017
The JRB featured in Marie Claire
A new African literary journal has launched in Johannesburg. The Johannesburg Review of Books (JRB) launched on 1 May and will publish reviews, essays, poetry, photographs and short stories from South Africa, Africa, and further abroad. Like the Lond
Roland Glasser describes the process of translating Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s award winning Tram 83
In a wonderful article in the new issue of Asymptote, Roland Glasser writes about the experience of translating Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s award winning debut novel Tram 83 from French into English.
Find out more about Fred Strydom’s new book The Inside-out Man
Fred Strydom’s novel The Inside-out Man is a jazzy and surreal mind-bender of a book.
The World’s Worst Children 2 by David Walliams
If you thought you had read about the World’s Worst Children already, you’re in for a rather nasty shock. The beastly boys and gruesome girls in this book are even ruder, even more disgusting and worse than you could ever imagine!
Don’t miss the launch of Steven Boykey Sidley’s Free Association at The Book Lounge
Pan Macmillan and The Book Lounge invite you to join Marianne Thamm and Steven Boykey Sidley for the launch of Free Association!
Friday – 5th May 2017
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’.
Bontle Senne, author of the Shadow Chasers series for kids, chats to Nal’ibali
Bontle Senne has written two books for tweens in the nail-biting Shadow Chasers series – Power of the Knife and Lake of Memories – and hopes to publish the third before she turns 30 in October this year.
Africa’s best new poems are ready for the reading
The 2016 installment of the Best “New” African Poets Anthology, from editors Tendai Rinos Mwanaka and Daniel da Purificação, seeks to give exposure to even more rising talents from Africa and its Diasporas.
Thursday – 4th May 2017
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.
Wednesday – 3rd May 2017
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.