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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.
Hamba kahle, Emma Mashinini
The feisty and inspirational Emma Mashinini has passed away at age 87. Emma’s memoir, Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life was originally published by The Women’s Press UK in 1989 and republished by Picador Africa in South Africa in 2012 with a new foreword by Jay Naidoo.
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.
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.
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.
Submit your manuscript to Pan Macmillan during an open submissions window in May
Pan Macmillan South Africa will be accepting unsolicited manuscripts during an open submissions window from 8 to the 12 May 2017.