South Africa
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?
Wednesday – 10th May 2017
Don’t miss the launch of The Republic of Gupta by Pieter-Louis Myburgh, with Ferial Haffajee
Penguin Random House and Exclusive Books invite you to join them for the launch of The Republic of Gupta by Pieter-Louis Myburgh.
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.
A remarkable new sports biography – Being a Black Springbok: The Thando Manana Story
Thando Manana was the third black African player to don a Springbok jersey after unification in 1992, when he made his debut in 2000 in a tour game against Argentina A.
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
The Fifth Mrs Brink by Karina M Szczurek
Arriving on the doorstep of Jonathan Ball Publishers, I felt like a refugee who had sailed through treacherous waters in a derelict dinghy and found her way to the shores of a safe haven. With only my ancient fountain pen in the bag I carried, I was seeking asylum again.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.