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2016 South African Literary Awards nominees revealed

October 11, 2016, 5:45 am
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Alert! The shortlists for the 2016 South African Literary Awards have been announced.

18 authors from a total of 132 submissions have been shortlisted and the winners will be announced on Monday, 7 November, at a prestigious function at Unisa.

On the same day, wRite Associates will host the fifth Africa Century International African Writers Conference, before the ceremony. This year, the SALAs have partnered with the Unisa Department of English Studies in delivering both the awards ceremony and the Conference.

The SALAs were founded in 2005 by wRite Associates and the Department of Arts and Culture.

This year, the awards will honour the memory of TT Cloete and Chris van Wyk with Posthumous Literary Awards, while Ingrid Winterbach and Professor Johan Lenake are nominated for Lifetime Achievement Literary Awards.

The SALA Adjudication Panel said:

We are excited that South African literature continues to flourish, with many young writers coming into the scene, sharing platforms with their more established and experienced counterparts, however, we are saddened and concerned that we still see less and less of works written in African languages.

Going forward, the SALA Adjudication Panel recommends literary workshops and symposia with stakeholders, especially writers, publishers and editors, to address concerns regarding the standard and quality of some of the work, especially in African languages, that SALA has been receiving over time. This would be in line with one of the objectives of SALA, ‘to promote and preserve all our languages’.

We congratulate the 2016 nominees for their sterling work and keeping South Africa’s literary heritage alive.

The SALAs aim to “pay tribute to South African writers who have distinguished themselves as groundbreaking producers and creators of literature”, as well as to “celebrate literary excellence in the depiction and sharing of South Africa’s histories, value systems and philosophies and art as inscribed and preserved in all the languages of South Africa, particularly the official languages”.

The 2016 South African Literary Awards nominees:

Posthumous Literary Award

TT Cloete – Body of work
Chris van Wyk – Body of work

Poetry Award

Gilbert Gibson, Vry-
Athol Williams, Bumper Cars
Arja Salafranca, Beyond Touch

Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award

Danie Marais, Pruimtwak en skaduboksers
Sandra Hill, UnSettled and Other Stories

Literary Translators Award

Leon de Kock and Karin Schimke, Flame in the Snow: The Love Letters of André Brink and Ingrid Jonker
Zirk van den Berg, Halfpad een ding
Kirby van der Merwe, ’n Huis vir Ester

Lifetime Achievement Literary Award

Ingrid Winterbach – Body of work
Prof Johan Lenake – Body of work

K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award

Willem Anker, Buys – ’n Grensroman
Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho, The Violent Gestures of Life
Panashe Chigumadzi, Sweet Medicine

First-time Published Author Award

Francois Smith, Kamphoer
Ferial Haffajee, What If There Were No Whites In South Africa?

Creative Non-Fiction Award

Carel van der Merwe, Donker stroom
Jacob Dlamini, Askari

Chairperson’s Award

Recipient to be announced at the Award Ceremony – Body of work

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Mongane Wally Serote, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Penny Siopis and Albie Sachs honoured at 2016 ACT Awards

October 24, 2016, 7:22 am
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Alert! The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) recently announced the winners of the 2016 Awards.

The Lifetime Achievement awards went to Dr Mongane Wally Serote for Literature, Pieter-Dirk Uys for Theatre, Johnny Clegg for Music, Penny Siopis for Visual Art, Albie Sachs for Arts Advocacy and Johaar Mosaval for Dance.

ACT CEO Pieter Jacobs said: “Our list of South African icons would not be complete without entering the names of these remarkable individuals alongside the likes of Miriam Makeba, Nadine Gordimer and Dr John Kani, to mention a few.”

“Their exemplary careers have enriched the arts and culture industry significantly, leaving a legacy that inspires young artists, such as the ImpACT Award recipients, to strive to reach a high level of excellence in their chosen fields,” Jacobs continued.

ACT also celebrates the winners of the ImpACT Awards for young professionals; young artists or businesses that have reached a notable level in their career.

Read the Press release for more information on these prestigious awards and their notable recipients:
 

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ACT announces 2016 Award winners

A Sophiatown theme and exceptional entertainment set the tone at Sun International’s The Maslow Hotel last night, when ACT named their Award winners.

At the core of the Awards, is the announcement of Lifetime Achievement recipients who have each had a lifelong commitment to the arts, and this year, six deserving luminaries were recognised.

The recipients are nominated by the ACT Board of Trustees and selected by current and previous ACT Trustees. Categories include: Theatre, Music, Visual Art, Literature, Arts Advocacy and Dance.

This year, ACT honoured Pieter-Dirk Uys for Theatre, Johnny Clegg for Music, Penny Siopis for Visual Art, Dr Mongane Wally Serote for Literature, Albie Sachs for Arts Advocacy and Johaar Mosaval for Dance.

“Our list of South African icons would not be complete without entering the names of these remarkable individuals alongside the likes of Miriam Makeba, Nadine Gordimer and Dr John Kani, to mention a few,” ACT CEO, Pieter Jacobs, said. “Their exemplary careers have enriched the arts and culture industry significantly, leaving a legacy that inspires young artists, such as the ImpACT Award recipients, to strive to reach a high level of excellence in their chosen fields.”

The ImpACT Awards for young professionals are given annually to honour young artists or businesses that have reached a notable level in their career. Giving the masses a voice through the public nomination process, ACT proudly boasts a first-rate selection of these individuals in the categories of Theatre, Visual Art, Music, Dance and Design.

Visual artist, Chepape Makgato; singer, Thandi Ntuli; actor Mkhululi Z Mabija; designer, Jody Paulsen; and dancer, Sunnyboy Motau were named the 2016 ImpACT Award winners. Each boasting a burgeoning creative career, this year’s winners collectively represent determination, dedication and ineffable talent.

The 2016 Awards saw ACT partner with the Distell Foundation, The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) and Sun International to see this group of young professionals being lauded for the remarkable impression they have made in the first five years of their careers. Each winner will receive R10 000 and additional PR opportunities that will be generated through the ACT Awards. ImpACT Award recipients will also get on-going backing from ACT in the form promotional support in their professional careers.

The 19th annual ACT Awards was hosted by Sun International in association with the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), and supported by Business and Arts South Africa (BASA). The Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) sponsors the Lifetime Award for Music, the Dramatic, Artistic and Literary Rights Organisation (DALRO) for Theatre, Media24 Books for Literature, the Nedbank Arts Affinity for Visual Art, JTI for Dance and Creative Feel for Arts Advocacy, which will see recipients each receiving R45 000.

For more information about the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) please visit www.act.org.za and use the hashtag #ACTAwards across all social media channels.

2016 ImpACT Awards Finalists

Chepape Makgato

Khehla Chepape Makgato was born in Johannesburg and raised in Makotopong village, outside Polokwane in Limpopo. Makgato has the diploma equivalence for Fine Arts majoring in Printmaking from Artist Proof Studio and a Diploma in Media Practice majoring in Journalism through Boston Media House. Makgato was one of two South African delegates and one of three SADC regional youth delegates to the 2012 Africa Utopia Youth Arts, Cultural and Olympia Festivals of the World at the Southbank Centre in London, UK. He has participated in numerous art exhibitions and fairs both locally and internationally. Makgato collaborated with William Kentridge on a project in January 2015 and continues to work on some small projects for Kentridge. He has had solo shows in 2013 (MARIKANA; Truth, Probability & Paradox), 2014 (VOICES FROM THE KOPPIE ñ Towards Speculative Realism), 2015 (MARIKANA; The Rituals) and 2016 (Manuscripts Found From The Koppie) to be exhibited in Cape Town. In 2014 he won a studio art bursary from the African Arts Trust to be a resident artist at Assemblage Studios. He is also an inaugural recipient of 2016 Art Across Oceans Residency at Kohl Children’s Museum in Chicago, USA in partnership with Play Africa. Makgato now works full-time as an artist at Assemblage Studios and freelance arts writer for ArtAfrica, The Journalist, Ampers and various online publications.

Thandi Ntuli

Ntuli was born in 1987 in one of South Africa’s largest townships, Soshanguve (Pretoria). She comes from a lineage of rich musical heritage, being the niece of guitarist, pianist and lead vocalist of 70′s pop fusion band Harari (The Beaters), Selby Ntuli. At the age of four, she started taking classical piano lessons under the tutelage of Ada Levkowitz. However, her keen interest for jazz was only kindled later in life, leading her to enrol and complete a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance at The University of Cape Town. Since the release of her debut jazz album, The Offering, which she released independently, Ntuli is fast making an imprint in the local jazz scene with her unique voice. The Offering has received critical acclaim as well as numerous awards and recognition since its release in 2014, including a Metro FM Award nomination for Best Urban Jazz in 2015.

Mkhululi Z Mabija

Mabija graduated from Tshwane University of Technology with a BA in Musical Theatre Performance (2006) and from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing (2010). At the age of 24, he became the youngest adjunct professor at New York University teaching a subject called South African Culture through History, Art and Media. Mkhululi has written many operas and musicals with various composers. Mkhululi has adapted Athol Fugard’s novel, Tsotsi for the musical theatre stage with composer and singer, Zwai Bala. Tsotsi will premiere in November 2017.

Jody Paulsen

Jody Paulsen was born in 1987 in Cape Town, where he continues to live and work. He specialised in Print Media at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Arts. On graduating, in 2009, Paulsen was awarded the Kathrine Harris Print Cabinet Award. In 2012, Paulsen won the Jules Kramer Departmental Scholarship Award and went on to complete his Masters Degree, also at UCT’s Michaelis School of Fine Art, with his solo exhibition What You Want, Whenever You Want It in 2013. Notable group exhibitions include: 2015′s Young, Gifted and Black, curated by Hank Willis Thomas, in Cape Town; Making Africa at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain (2015); Poppositions at Canal Warf in Brussels, Belgium (2015); MiArt 2014 in Milan, Italy and START Art Fair 2014 in London, United Kingdom. Paulsen has also collaborated with fashion designer Adriaan Kuiters, as Creative Director of Adriaan Kuiters + Jody Paulsen (AKJP) to present multiple collections at Mercedes-Benz Cape Town Fashion Week (2013-2016), and notably, at New York Fashion Week in 2015. AKJP has most recently, in 2016, participated in the Generation Africa fashion show at Pitti Uomo in Florence, Italy.

Sunnyboy Motau

Named among Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans, a 2015 Naledi Theatre Award nominee, and an acclaimed choreographer and dancer, the dynamic powerhouse of Sunnyboy Motau is set on a road called success. Beginning in community arts groups in Alexandra, he trained at Moving into Dance where he continues to work. His collaborative commission by the Dance Umbrella 2015 was among the top three of the National Arts Festival. His co-choreography with Jessica Nupen toured Germany 2015, opened the Dance Umbrella in 2016 and tours Italy in September. Currently, Motau is choreographing for the Playhouse Company in Durban after a successful production for The Market Theatre in February and the HIFA Pop-Up Festival in Harare in May.

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Skryf nou in vir die 2017 kykNET-Rapport-boekpryse en die Jan Rabie-Rapportprys

November 8, 2016, 1:18 am
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Aandag! Voorleggings word ingewag vir die 2017 kykNET-Rapport-boekpryse en die 2017 Jan Rabie-Rapportprys.

Die kykNET-Rapport Boekpryse word beskou as die Afrikaanse eweknie van die Sunday Times Literary Awards. Die organiseerders het onlangs ’n uitnodiging aan die publiek gerig vir inskrywings.

Die wenners van die 2016 kykNET-Rapport-boekpryse en die Jan Rabie-Rapportprys is in September vanjaar aangekondig tydens ’n spoggeleentheid in Kaapstad. Hulle was:

BrandwaterkomDonker stroom’n Goeie dag vir boomklimWonderboom

 

  • Brandwaterkom deur Alexander Strachan (Tafelberg) – kykNET-Rapport Boekprys, Fiksie
  • Donker stroom: Eugène Marais en die Anglo-Boereoorlog deur Carel van der Merwe (Tafelberg) – kykNET-Rapport Boekprys, Niefiksie
  • ’n Goeie dag vir boomklim deur Jaco Jacobs (LAPA) – kykNET-Rapport Boekprys, Film
  • Wonderboom deur Lien Botha (Queillerie) – Jan Rabie-Rapportprys

 
Boeke wat tussen 1 Januarie 2016 en 31 Desember 2016 gepubliseer is kan in aanmerking kom vir die pryse. Lees die persverklaring vir meer inligting:

Voorleggings ingewag vir groot Afrikaanse boekpryse
Skryf nou in vir kykNET-Rapport, Jan Rabie-Rapport

Voorleggings word ingewag vir die 2017 kykNET-Rapport-boekpryse en die 2017 Jan Rabie-Rapportprys vir die beste debuutroman in Afrikaans.

Die kykNET-Rapport-boekpryse word toegeken in die volgende kategorieë:

  • Beste Afrikaanse volwasse roman (R200 000)
  • Beste Afrikaanse niefiksie-boek (R200 000)
  • Afrikaanse roman of niefiksie-boek met die meeste filmiese potensiaal (R100 000)

Die Jan Rabie-Rapportprys, wat deur Rapport en Media24 Boeke geborg word, word jaarliks toegeken om nuwe skrywers van volwasse romans in Afrikaans aan te spoor om prosa van gehalte te lewer, nuwe stemme met belofte te ondersteun en vernuwing te erken. Dit beloop R35 000.

Slegs gepubliseerde boeke wat tussen 1 Januarie 2016 en 31 Desember 2016 verskyn het, kom in aanmerking vir hierdie pryse. Geen selfpublikasies word oorweeg nie.

Boeke moet oorspronklik in Afrikaans geskryf wees. Indien boeke gelyktydig in Afrikaans en Engels verskyn het, kom die Afrikaanse uitgawe in aanmerking, mits dit deur die skrywer self vertaal is. Geen vertalings of verwerkings van ander skrywers se werk word aanvaar nie.

Inskrywingsvorms en volledige riglyne is beskikbaar by die twee sameroepers.

INSKRYWINGSBESONDERHEDE VIR 2017 KYKNET-RAPPORTPRYSE

Voltooide inskrywingsvorms sowel as agt eksemplare van elke boek moet die sameroeper bereik voor of op die sperdatum van 11 November 2016. Boeke wat ná dié datum verskyn, moet apart versend word.

Adres waarheen boeke versend moet word per koerier:

kykNET-Rapport Boekpryse
p/a Hettie Scholtz
la Clémence 128
Webersvalleipad
Jamestown
STELLENBOSCH
021 880 2030/084 583 0272
Rig alle navrae aan die sameroeper, Hettie Scholtz, by scholtz5@mweb.co.za.
Besoek ook www.kyknetrapportpryse.co.za vir meer inligting.

INSKRYWINGSBESONDERHEDE VIR 2017 JAN RABIE-RAPPORTPRYS

Die sluitingsdatum vir inskrywings is 8 Desember 2016. Die adres waarheen inskrywings vir die Jan Rabie-Rapportprys per koerier versend moet word, is:

Jan Rabie-Rapport-boekprys
p.a. Elzebet Stubbe
NB-Uitgewers
12de verdieping
Heerengracht 40
Kaapstad
8001
Rig asseblief alle navrae oor die Jan Rabie-Rapportprys aan Anita van Zyl:
Tel: 021 422 3350 / 083 709 6677
Faks: 086 649 8262
E-pos: anita@vanzylpr.co.za

2017 KYKNET-RAPPORT-BOEKRESENSENT VAN DIE JAAR

Voorleggings vir die kykNET-Rapportpryse vir boekresensent van die jaar sal vroeg in 2017 aangevra word. Navrae hieroor kan intussen aan Anita van Zyl gerig word.

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2016 South African Literary Awards (SALAs) winners announced

November 9, 2016, 2:03 am
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Alert! The winners of this year’s South African Literary Awards (SALAs) have been announced.

The SALAs were founded in 2005 by the wRite associates and the Department of Arts and Culture, to celebrate literary excellence in all the languages of South Africa.

TT Cloete and Chris van Wyk were honoured with Posthumous Literary Awards, while Ingrid Winterbach and Johan Lenake received Lifetime Achievement Literary Awards.

The K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award – for writers under the age of 40 – is shared by Willem Anker and Panashe Chigumadzi.

The First-time Published Author Award is also shared this year, by Francois Smith and Jacob Dlamini.

The Literary Journalism Award, Creative Non-Fiction Award or South African National Poet Laureate Prize were not awarded this year.

See the full list of winners:

 
2016 South African Literary Awards (SALAs) winners

Posthumous Literary Awards:

TT Cloete, for his body of work
Chris van Wyk, for his body of work

Poetry Awards:

Gilbert Gibson, Vry
Arja Salafranca, Beyond Touch

Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award:

Sandra Hill, Unsettled and Other Stories

Literary Translators Award:

Leon de Kock & Karin Schimke, Flame in the Snow: The Love Letters of Andre Brink & Ingrid Jonker

Lifetime Achievement Literary Awards:

Ingrid Winterbach, for her body of work
Johan Lenake, for his body of work

K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Awards:

Willem Anker, Buys
Panashe Chigumadzi, Sweet Medicine

First-time Published Author Award:

Francois Smith, Kamphoer
Jacob Dlamini, Askari

Chairperson’s Award:

Gcina Mhlophe, for her body of work
 
 
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uHlanga open to unsolicited submissions of poetry manuscripts in February 2017

November 25, 2016, 1:09 am
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uHlanga New Poets Series Launches with Collections by Genna Gardini and Thabo Jijana
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Calling all poets!

For the first time, uHlanga will be open for submissions of unsolicited manuscripts of poetry for the month of February 2017.

The press will be accepting submissions of any book length in English, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, or a combination of those languages. Poets must either be South African or permanent residents of South Africa.

uHlanga are the publishers of Nick Mulgrew, Genna Gardini, Thabo Jijana, Helen Moffett, Stephen Symons and Rosa Lyster.

Jijana won the 2016 Ingrid Jonker Prize for his collection, Failing Maths and My Other Crimes.

Read: uHlanga Press Poetry Special, Featuring Thabo Jijana, Genna Gardini and Nick Mulgrew

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Read the submission guidelines:

uHlanga does not accept unsolicited poems or manuscripts for publication outside of our announced reading periods.

Our first open submissions period for original chapbooks and collections of poetry from South African poets, or poets living in South Africa, will take place from 1 February to 28 February 2017. Manuscripts must be predominantly written in English, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, or a combination of those languages. Every manuscript will be read, and all will be considered for publication.

There is no indicated length for manuscripts, although most books published by uHlanga contain 20-40 poems. (Manuscripts envisioned as chapbooks, for example, may be shorter, while epic poetry may contain very few poems.) The more coherent, structured and economical your manuscript is, the higher the chance of it being published – so do not simply include every poem you have ever written. Successful manuscripts will be published in the manner and format – eg full collection, chapbook – that uHlanga deems most appropriate for the content.

Please note that anthologies or retrospective collections will not be accepted. Manuscripts containing poems previously published in magazines, anthologies, journals, or online will be accepted, as long as each previously-published poem is acknowledged in the manuscript, and as long as the writer has the rights to reprint such poems. Manuscripts that have already been published previously as a whole will not be accepted.

We accept manuscripts from writers of any experience, whether they have published a collection of poetry before or not. The only criterium for eligibility is that writers either be South African, or a permanent resident of South Africa.

Only writers of successful submissions will be replied to, and will be offered our standard contract. Please note that this is not a competition: we reserve the right to publish none of the manuscripts received during this submissions period.

Submissions will only be accepted through our email address, submissions@uhlangapress.co.za, as either .doc or .pdf attachments, with all text in Times New Roman. Include your name and contact information on a cover letter attached alongside the manuscript. Being familiar with our books is essential: feel free to mention to us why you think your manuscript will be a good fit for uHlanga.

There is no reading fee. Agented submissions are discouraged, but not strictly disallowed.

Do not submit your manuscript before 1 February 2017 or after 28 February 2017 – it will be discarded without being read. Good luck!
Where can I publish poetry outside of reading periods?

Your best way to get noticed by us is to be an active poet, publishing as many poems in as many places as you can. There are a number of excellent periodicals and websites in South(ern) Africa that accept unsolicited poems for publication. Here are the periodicals that uHlanga reads most often:

Prufrock
Aerodrome
New Contrast
Stanzas
New Coin
The Kalahari Review

You likely won’t publish any poems, however, if you don’t read poems! Support local literary magazines.

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Soettand: Tannie Koelsoem en Tannie Flori is terug!

March 3, 2017, 1:17 am
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Die gedugte bakspan Tannie Koelsoem en Tannie Flori se Soettand verskyn binnekort op die rakke!

Resepte vir poedings en soetgebak wat dekades lank al familiegunstelinge is, verskyn in Koelsoem Kamali en Flori Schrikker se tweede boek.

Lesers met ‘n soettand kan uitsien na lekkernye soos Ouma Rose se doekpoeding, Maleise koeksisters, bobaas-bollas, Yuwin se waatlemoensysies, en die immgergewilde tweegevrietjies. Aitsa!

Kamali en Schrikker bekoor Suid-Afrikaners vir jare lank al met hulle onopgesmukte kos uit hulle kombuise in Bonteheuwel op die Kaapse Vlakte.

Hulle eerste boek, Kook saam Kaaps, het met goeie rede meer as 10 000 eksemplare in 12 maande verkoop!

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HemelBesem se outobiografie is hier. Awê.

March 3, 2017, 2:21 am
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Kletsrymer. Akteur. Edutainer. Digter. Skrywer. Ladies en jintelmanne: hierdie is HemelBesem.

In God praat Afrikaans skryf dié veelsydige rapper prontuit oor sy komvandaan, issues wat na aan sy hart lê, en die belangrikste van als: wat Afrikaans-wees vir hom beteken en hoe dit hom gevorm het.

“Ek’s bekend, but dis ’n klug. Om my te ken is fundamenteel. / HemelBesem is die naam. Aangename kennis!” lui ’n uittreksel van sy outobiografie.

In God praat Afrikaans word jy werklik voorgestel aan Simon Witbooi: die man wat ons as HemelBesem ken, soos hy deur middel van ’n mengelmoes van prosa en lirieke in sy verlede delf en kommentaar lewer oor sy moedertaal.

’n Moet-lees vir jonk en oud wat in Afrikaans belangstel.

Tjekit yt!

God praat Afrikaans

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Breyten Breytenbach recipient of international literary award

March 7, 2017, 5:53 am
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The poet, novelist and artist Breyten Breytenbach has been awarded the 2017 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award.

Breytenbach is renown for his anti-apartheid activism and acclaimed poetry anthologies, many of which are in Afrikaans.

The Zbigniew Herbert Foundation, composed of an international panel of literary critics, announced Breytenbach as the recipient of this prestigious award on Monday in Warsaw, Poland. The award is named after the anti-communist Polish poet and philosopher, Zbigniew Herbert.

Jarosław Mikołajewski (Poland), who serves on the jury, stated:

Breytenbach is an outstanding poet and an outstanding person. Qualities found in his poems include moral tension, breadth and dynamic imagination. And his qualities as a person – a need to be on the side of the weakest, and an opposition to violence, to discrimination. His value as a person brought him admiration and seven years in prison. His value as a poet has brought him the Zbigniew Herbert Award.

The award ceremony will take place in Warsaw on the 25th of May.

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International Women’s Day: seven African woman writers you should have read by 2017

March 8, 2017, 7:51 am
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International Women’s Day (March 8) is a universal commemoration of the social, economic, political and cultural achievement of women.

The following quote by Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie encapsulates both the necessity of celebrating a day committed to the empowerment of women, and how writing can aid the continuing empowerment of women worldwide:

“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Here follows a list of African woman writers whose stories matter:

The Translator

1. Leila Aboulela: Acclaimed – one of the most suitable adjectives to describe Sudanese author Leila Aboulela. She has published five novels in 16 years, wowing literary critics with her debut The Translator, which was nominated for the Orange Prize and chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Her novel second novel, Minaret, also received a nomination for the Orange Prize and her third novel, Lyrics Alley made the longlist for the same prize in 2011. Lyrics Alley was awarded the Fiction Winner of Scottish Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize. In 2000, Aboulela was awarded the coveted Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story The Museum. Aboulela’s work has been translated into 14 languages, and is predominantly influenced by the Muslim faith and her experiences of cross-culturalisation.

Nervous Conditions

2. Tsitsi Dangarembga: Zimbabwean author, poet, activist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in Bulawayao and schooled in England. Her debut, the semi-autobiographical Nervous Conditions (1988), is themed around race, colonialism, and gender in post-colonial and present-day Zimbabwe. Nervous Conditions was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1989, and is still regarded as a significant contribution to African feminism and post-colonialist narratives. (PS – Dangarembga will be delivering a Women’s Day lecture in Johannesburg on whether feminism is divisive, unAfrican and anti-Black this coming Friday.)

Moxyland

3. Lauren Beukes: When it comes to writing about contemporary sci-fi cum fantasy cum speculative fiction, no one does it quite like Lauren Beukes. With a slew of awards behind her futuristically inclined pen, including the Arthur C. Clarke award for the perennial favourite and much-lauded Zoo City, Beukes has established herself as a South African author to be reckoned with. Her debut novel, the Cape Town-based cyberpunk Moxyland (2008) was nominated for the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize; 2013′s time travel thriller The Shining Girls was the recipient of four prestigious South African literary awards; and – lest we forget – 2014′s Broken Monsters was commended by The Guardian for its unique adoption of the horror trope as means to explain the crazy reality we live in. And no one quite does crazy reality like Lauren Beukes…

A World of Strangers

4. Nadine Gordimer: A fearless political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer garnered international recognition for her work which dealt with moral and racial issues, and a constant questioning of power relations and truth during South Africa’s apartheid regime. Gordimer’s The Late Bourgeois World, A World of Strangers, Burger’s Daughter and July’s People were either banned or placed under censorship by the apartheid government, owing to the strong anti-apartheid stance and her criticism of racial division. Gordimer is not only one of the most notable literary figures to emerge from South Africa, but also one of its most notable women.

Coconut

5. Kopano Matlwa: Addressing race, class and colonisation in modern-day Johannesburg, Kopano Matlwa had South African bibliophiles buzzing with her debut novel Coconut, published in 2007. Coconut was awarded the European Union Literary Award in 2006/07 and also won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in 2010. Her second novel, Spilt Milk (2010), published to equally great acclaim, delivers an allegorical perspective on the born-free generation. Matlwa’s recent Period Pains explores social issues from the point of view of a young female protagonist, delivering an insightful and honest look at growing up in a post-1994 South Africa.

We Need New Names

6. NoViolet Bulawayo: The first black African woman and the first Zimbabwean to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, NoViolet Bulawayo rose to international acclaim with her debut novel We Need New Names (2013). Born Elizabeth Thsele, Bulawayo’s literary approach towards displacement, childhood, globalisation, social class and gender delivered subtle, yet powerful commentary on the existential realities of Africa. Named a ‘five under 35′ by the National Book Foundation in 2012, the recipient of the Caine Prize Award for African Writing in 2011, and a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner for We Need New Names, there’s no stopping NoViolet Bulawayo.

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7. Chimamanda Adichie: No ‘must-read-African-woman-writers-list’ will be complete without mentioning this critically acclaimed author and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient whose TEDx-talk on
feminism was appropriated in Beyoncé’s “Flawless”. Mense: take note of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. As a globally renowned writer, an advocate for gender equality, and vocal supporter of the representation of African culture in the international literary sphere, Adichie is one of the most influential authors – and women – of the 21st century. Viva, Chimamanda, viva.

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Martin Meredith’s Afrikaner Odyssey delves into the extraordinary life of Deneys Reitz

March 13, 2017, 3:28 am
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Afrikaner Odyssey

In the first half of the nineteenth century, southern Africa was a jumble of British colonies, Boer republics and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. Into this frontier world came the Reitz family, Afrikaner gentry from the Cape, who settled in Bloemfontein and played a key role in the building of the Orange Free State. Frank Reitz, successively chief justice and modernising president of the young republic, went on to serve as State Secretary of the Transvaal Republic. In 1899, he stood shoulder to shoulder with President Paul Kruger to resist Britain’s war of conquest in southern Africa. At the heart of this tale is the extraordinary life of Deneys Reitz, third son of Frank Reitz and Bianca Thesen.

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In a state of emergency: Michele Magwood chats to Marita van der Vyver about her latest novel You Lost Me

March 27, 2017, 4:02 am
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The French terror attacks change the world view of a disconsolate South African writer in this novel, writes Michele Magwood for the Sunday Times

You Lost Me You Lost Me
Marita van der Vyver (Penguin)
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Willem Prins trudges the streets of Paris, disconsolate and depressed. He is, he believes, “a mediocre father, a mediocre writer who leads a mediocre life. How does one endure one’s own mediocrity?” he wonders. Greying and paunchy, Prins is a middling author at home in South Africa, good enough to be short-listed for literary prizes, but never the winner. His early promise as a leonine, Che Guevara-like novelist has never come to much. To make ends meet he has started writing soft porn – “clitlit” – under the pseudonym Lolita Meyer.

This is the first time that Marita van der Vyver has written a male protagonist. “When you’re a female writer, writing mostly female characters, you’re categorised as ‘just’ a woman’s writer,” she says. “I wanted to punch a hole in that box, which is why I chose a male character.”

Prins is mortified when one of his Lolita books is picked up by a French publisher, but when she invites him to the launch in Paris he decides to go, hoping to see his estranged son who has been raised by his first wife and her French husband in the city.

The trip will shake his world view to its very foundations.

First, his son, Maurice, who has a doctorate in philosophy, is a tattooed, pierced, dreads-in-a-topknot waiter in a vegetarian restaurant. His girlfriend Nabila is Muslim, of Tunisian descent. And then there’s the irreverent Jackie, a South African working in Paris, a sprite in pink Doc Martens with a cloud of an Afro. Together the trio of youngsters begin to shift his sclerotic ennui, and his thoughts of suicide recede.

When he and Jackie escape the November 13 attacks in Paris, leaving a cafe minutes before a gunman opens fire on it, Prins is forced to rethink his life. “Tonight is the kind of night that can turn all your certainties into uncertainties.” Unable to contact Maurice, he is deranged with worry, grasping at a forsworn God: “Please, he prays to some or other intelligent higher being he suddenly wishes he could believe in again, please, let my son be safe.”

Van der Vyver was at her home in Provence on the night of the attacks, but equally worried about her three adult sons, one of whom has a girlfriend in Paris and the other two who go to music concerts nearly every weekend. It was only at 2am that she had located them all and ensured they were safe.

“Even so, you feel the horror. I still see it in my children, I see it in their friends, I see it in the French people around me. And then there was the Nice attack, which is much closer to where I live. It’s getting closer and closer. We’re still in a state of emergency. Isn’t it ironic? I left South Africa to live in France and I’m living in a state of emergency.”

On her website Van der Vyver reproduces the diary she kept while writing You Lost Me. It’s a fascinating insight into the process of producing a novel, the research, the plotting, the rewriting. Most surprising is the insecurity she feels about her writing. Despite dozens of books, children’s stories and reams of essays and journalism, she still doubts herself. “The insecurity gets worse,” she laughs, “because people expect more of you and your own standards get higher.”

It’s not stopping her, though. She is full of ideas for more books. “Stories are all around us all the time. Once you have your antennae out, you just have to pick them up.”

Follow Michele Magwood @michelemagwood

•You Lost Me is also available in Afrikaans as MisverstandMisverstand

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Ses moet-lees Maart boeke

March 28, 2017, 6:55 am
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Protea Boekhuis het ‘n besige Maart-maand agter die rug gehad. Van verbeeldingryke kinderboeke vir die jongspan, tot geskiedkundige novelles, tot dramatekste wat menslikheid ondersoek, is onlangs geubliseer.

Lees verder oor die volgende ses boeke waarby enige kranige leser sal aanklank vind:
 
 

Die dag is bros/Sandton City GrootdoopDie dag is bros/Sandton City Grootdoop
Wessel Pretorius

AGTERGROND
Twee dramas oor familie, verhoudings, vergifnis en herinneringe. Wat bybly, is dat mense maar net mense is. Dat versoening deel van menswees is. Dat stukkende mense mekaar kan help heel word en dat familie tog familie bly – ondanks omstandighede, persoonlike keuses en uitdagings.

Sandton City grootdoop
‘n Drama oor ’n ma en haar twee dogters wat vir die eerste keer in ’n lang tyd bymekaarkom om die oudste, Danél, se verjaardag in Sandton City te vier. In die proses begin die trio mekaar se verlede, gevoelens en emosies oopkrap met eerlike, en snaakse, oomblikke.
Kara, die ma, is die aktrise wat haar man en kinders op ’n jong ouderdom verlaat het om haar groot droom om wêreldberoemd te word, na te volg. Sy erken dat sy nie bevoeg of beskore was vir moederskap nie, maar probeer tog om tot hulle deur te dring en hulle vertroueling te wees. Haar oudste dogter, Danél, is bipolêr en bly na ‘n onlangse selfmoordpoging weer by haar ma. Sy is naïef en emosioneel en val maklik vir haar ma se manipulasie.
Haar suster, Lisa, is gay en verwyt haar ma dat sy nog niks met haar lewe gedoen het nie. Sy is kwaad en kras en wil graag haar ma skok met haar uitlatings oor seks, maar ’n mens kom agter dat sy eintlik baie kwesbaar is.

“Die minimalisme van die stuk bind jou en hou jou vasgenael tot die einde.” Leonie Bezuidenhout
“Dit is galbitter, snaaks en bitter seer in ewe maat, ’n driekuns wat Pretorius keer op keer regkry. Jy lag, maar jy weet jy moet eintlik ween.” – Leatitia Pople

Die dag is bros
Dis laatmiddag. Elsa, voorheen ’n lektor in Afrikaanse letterkunde, berei ’n driegangmaaltyd voor vir Brian se verjaarsdag. Hy was ’n jeugmisdadiger wat ’n tweede kans gegun is onder Elsa se vlerk. Sy stel hom bloot aan Sheila Cussons en hy vul ’n leemte in haar lewe. Tussendeur word daar speletjies gespeel met Tertius – die vreemde kind wat kersiebloeisels aandra uit Japan. Voor die kos koud kan word sal die dag ’n ingrypende wending neem.

Die dag is bros is benoem vir ’n Fiësta as beste nuutgeskepte Afrikaanse produksie.

OOR DIE OUTEUR
Wessel Pretorius is die wenner van die 2015 Afrikaans Onbeperk-prys vir ’n jong stem.

Voor ek my kom kryVoor ek my kom kry
Pirow Bekker

AGTERGROND
Die omslag van die bundel met sy abstrakte figure suggereer die gesprek wat in hierdie bundel gevoer word met die self, die geliefde, die lewe en die dood. Die digter ondersoek erskillende fasette van ’n lang en kreatiewe lewe. In die eerste afdeling kom die verhouding met die aarde ter sprake; in die tweede afdeling die ambivalente verhouding met die land waarin hy gekies het om te bly woon, ten spyte van die ongenaakbaarheid van klimaat, plae en sosio-politieke kwessies. In die volgende afdelings kyk die digter op ironiese wyse na die dreigende dood wat hom in verskille gedaantes voordoen. Dan volg gedigte oor die liefde: vir die taal, die woord en vir die geliefde vrou. Die fyn humor waarmee die digter na die ouderdom kyk, sorg dat die laaste gedigte nie neerdrukkend is nie, maar die lewe bly omhels, soos in “Hansie Slim herbesin”, waarin gespot word met die “mediese kernplan” waarmee voorsorg vir siekte en ouderdom getref word.

En tog,
die hele infrastruktuur ten spyt
verlaat Hans sy huis, begeef hy hom
op ’n lukraak ryloopreis
die wyer wêreld in.

Daarom kan die digter in die slotgedig terugkyk op die verrassing van ’n lewe wat sonder beplanning of padkaart, sy eie verloop geneem het.

OOR DIE OUTEUR
Pirow Bekker is ’n veelsydige skrywer van romans, kortverhale en poësie. Sy vorige twee bundels, Van roes en amarant (2008) en Atlas teen die vergeetrivier, (2013) is goed ontvang deur die literêre kritiek.

Kroniek van turfKroniek van turf
Dolf van Niekerk

AGTERGROND
Hierdie novelle sluit aan by twee vorige prosawerke van Dolf van Niekerk, naamlik die jeugverhaal Karel Kousop (1985) en Koms van die hyreën (1994). Kroniek van turf is gedeeltelik ’n prequel vir die vorige twee boeke. Dit vertel die geskiedenis van Gerrit, ’n werknemer van die VOC, wat in die 18de eeu begin boer op ’n leningsplaas in die Roggeland. Omstandighede dwing hom om na die distrik Swellendam te verskuif. Sy twee seuns, Johannes en Daniel, soek albei later ook na ’n veiliger blyplek, aanvanklik in die Kamdebo. Onrus op die Oosgrens laat hulle verder trek; Johannes na wat tans die Vrystaat is en Daniel saam met die Voortrekkers na Natal, waar hy en sy vrou slagoffers van die Bloukransmoorde word.
Waar Johannes hom op ’n plaas tussen die Riet- en die Modderrivier vestig, maak hy weer kontak met die Kousop-Boesmans wat hy vroeër naby die Gariep ontmoet het. Tussen Johannes se nageslag en die Boesmans ontwikkel ’n vae, onsekere band wat oor meer as ’n eeu sou strek. Onverwags maak een van Johannes se nasate, Johan, tydens die Bosoorlog kennis met ’n Boesmanspoorsnyer wat ook ’n Kousop-nasaat blyk te wees en wat ’n bepalende rol in ’n grondeis op Johan se plaas tussen die twee riviere sou speel.

OOR DIE OUTEUR
Dolf van Niekerk is ’n bekende en geliefde skrywer van prosawerke soos Die son struikel (1960), Skrik kom huis toe (1968) en Die haasvanger (1985). Sy mees onlangse publikasies, die digbundels Bleek planeet (2012) en Portrette in my gang (2015), is baie goed deur die kritiek ontvang. Hy is meermale vir sy werk bekroon en het onder andere die Eugène Marais-prys, die M.E.R.-prys en die Scheepersprys ontvang.

Die prinses met die lang hareDie prinses met die lang hare
Annemarie van Haeringen

AGTERGROND
In ’n klein, arm landjie woon daar ’n prinses met ongelooflike lang hare. Sy sou dit graag wou afknip, maar haar pa sê dat ’n dame se hare haar kosbaarste sieraad is . . .

‘n Prettige boek vir meisies wat hou van prinsesse, lang hare en sterk mans.

OOR DIE OUTEUR EN ILLUSTREERDER
Annemarie van Haeringen ontvang in 2000 die Nederlandse Gouden Penseel-toekenning vir hierdie boek – ’n eer wat haar ook met Malmok (1999) en Beer is op Vlinder (2005) te beurt geval het. Ander bekroonde werke van haar is Het begin van de zee en Coco of het kleine zwarte jurkje, wat onderskeidelik met ’n Zilveren Griffel en ’n Zilveren Penseel vereer is.
 
 
 

Die storie van ontdekkingsreiseDie Storie van Ontdekkingsreise
Anna Claybourne

AGTERGROND
Vanaf die vroegste tye verken mense al die aardbol op soek na nuwe plekke om te bewoon, verleidelike skatte, asemrowende vergesigte of die roemryke voorreg om die éérste mens op ’n hoë bergpiek te wees.
Hierdie boek vertel die verhale van onverskrokke ontdekkingsreisigers wat dit tot by die ysige pole gewaag het, bloedig warm woestyne oorgesteek het, riviere vol krokodille trotseer of vir die eerste keer reg rondom die aarde geseil het.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lafras Cuyper in VenesiëLafras Cuyper in Venesië
Karl Kielblock

AGTERGROND

Karl Kielblock het verskeie boeke geskryf, waaronder die Lafras Cuyper-reeks baie bekend is en wyd versamel word. Dit handel oor seeavonture in diens van twee oorlogvoerende moondhede vroeg in die 19de eeu. Hierdie is die sesde boek in dié reeks, propvol opwinding, spanning en avontuur!

’n Besoek aan Venesië – dit is ’n droom wat waar word vir die beroemde kaperkaptein Lafras Cuyper. Dié droom word egter ru onderbreek toe Lafras een aand in die donker stegies aangeval word. Voor hy die raaisel oor die aanval kan oplos, roep Napoleon hom terug na Parys. Lafras moet Venesië verlaat – en ook die aanvallige Justina, wat sy hart so gou verower het. Hy moet met die Turkse goewerneur gaan onderhandel oor drie Franse offisiere wat as gyselaars aangehou word. Tussendeur al die lewensgevaarlike avonture, verskyn die beeld van Justina kort-kort voor Lafras. Hy móét haar weer sien. Hy móét weer terugkeer na Venesië … en sy aanvallers.

Die verhaal van Lafras Cuyper is op feite gebaseer.

OOR DIE OUTEUR

Karl Kielblock is ʼn bekende skrywer en selfs ná sy afsterwe bly sy boeke onweerstaanbaar. In 1936 verskyn sy eerste boek Die skat van Java. Sedertdien het daar verskeie romanse, speur- en spanningsverhale asook verskeie jeugverhale die lig gesien. In 1970 ontvang Kielblock die Scheepersprys vir die boek Rebel.

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Aspirant illustreerders: hier’s jou kans om ’n naam vir jouself te maak!

March 29, 2017, 12:47 am
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Protea Boekhuis loods tans hulle ‘Verbeel Dit!’-kompetisie. Dié kompetisie is spesifiek gerig op unieke, oorspronklike illustrasies vir kinderboeke wat nog nie voorheen gepubliseer is nie.

Verbeel Dit! maak deel van die jaarlike internasionale Picture This-illustrasiekompetisie wat ook in Engeland, Nederland, Duitsland en België plaasvind.

Indien jy gaande is oor kinderboeke en daarna streef om kinderboeke te illustreer, besoek Picture This se webblad vir verdere inligting om jou droom te bewerkstellig.

Die sluitingsdatum is 15 Mei 2017.

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Jan Braai wants YOUR bo-baas braai recipe for his new book!

March 29, 2017, 3:27 am
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Jan Braai is writing a new book!

This book, to be published in both English and Afrikaans, will contain a compilation of the best braai recipes, advice and braai stories of the South African public. Yes, that means you!

If you’re a keen braaier, contribute your champion braai recipe by clicking on the link below and play your part in creating a local-is-lekker braai culture!

All recipes chosen for the final book will be credited and you’ll receive a signed copy of the book if your recipe is included.

Afrikaanse inskrywings is ook welkom!

Interested in contributing a recipe? Click here for more!

Die Demokratiese Republiek van Braai

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The Democratic Republic of Braai

 
 
 
 

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Antjie Krog bekroon met Hertzogprys

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Die Raad van die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns het onlangs die bekronings vir hul jaarlikse toekennings aan diegene wat ‘n besonderse bydra tot die wetenskap, tegnologie en kunste in Afrikaans gelewer het aangekondig.

Dié raad is ‘n organisasie wat hom beywer vir die bevordering van wetenskap, tegnologie en die kunste, as ook om die belange van Afrikaans te dien.

Die Hertzogprys

Die stigting van die Raad van Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie word aan generaal J.B.M. Hertzog toegeskryf; ‘n voorstander vir Afrikaans-Nederlands. Die gesogte Hertzogprys vir letterkunde is na die generaal vernoem en staan vandag nog bekend as die vernaamste prestigeprys in die Afrikaanse letterkunde.

Die Hertzogprys is vanjaar toegeken aan die gerekende skrywer en digter Antjie Krog vir haar bundel Mede-wete.

Eugène Maraisprys

Die Eugène Maraisprys word toegeken vir ‘n eerste of vroeë letterkundige werk. Die skrywer wat vir sy of haar werk vereer word, kan slegs een maal dié toekenning ontvang.

Eugène Maraisprys 2015: Lien Botha is die 2015 Eugène Maraisprys toegeken vir haar roman Wonderboom. Slegs boeke wat in 2015 verskyn het, is in aanmerking geneem vir hierdie besonderse toekenning.

Eugène Maraisprys 2016: Amy Jephta is toegeken vir haar drama, Kristalvlakte wat in 2016 verskyn het en Bibi Slippers is ook vereer vir haar 2016 debuut-digbundel, Fotostaatmasjien.

Die bekroondes sal hul pryse onderskeidelik in Stellenbosch (Woensdag 21 Junie) en Pretoria (Vrydag 29 September) ontvang.

Mede-wete

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Kristalvlakte

 
 
 

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Jonathan Jansen se Lied vir Sarah: Lesse van my Ma sy eerlikste en mees intieme boek tot op hede

April 20, 2017, 6:46 am
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In hierdie boek, Jansen se persoonlikste en mees intieme boek tot op hede, daag Suid-Afrika se geliefde professor die stereotipes en stigma uit wat so maklik op Kaapse Vlakte-ma’s van toepassing gemaak word as luidrugtig, wellustig en sonder tande – en bied hy dié deernisvolle verhaal aan as ‘n lofsang vir ma’s oral wat op moeilike plekke gesinne moet grootmaak en gemeenskappe moet bou.

As jong man het Jansen gewonder hoe ma’s dit regkry om kinders onder moeilike omstandighede groot te maak – en toe besef die antwoord is is reg voor hom in die vorm van Sarah Jansen, sy eie ma.

Deur haar vroeë lewe in Montagu en die gevolge van apartheid se gedwonge verskuiwings na te speur, werp Jansen lig op hoe sterk vroue nie slegs daarin geslaag het om gesinne bymekaar te hou nie, maar hulle kinders ook met integriteit groot te maak.

Met sy kenmerkende fynsinnigheid, humor en eerlikheid, volg Jansen sy ma se lewensverhaal as ‘n jong verpleegster en ma van vyf kinders, en wys hoe dié ma’s hulle verlede verwerk het, hulle huise ingerig het, sin gemaak het van die politiek, die liefde bestuur en kernwaardes gekommunikeer het – hoe hulle hulle lewens gelei het.
 

Om sy eie herinneringe te balanseer, het Jansen hom op sy suster, Naomi, beroep om haar eie insigte en herinneringe te deel, en daardeur spesiale waarde tot hierdie roerende memoir toe te voeg.

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Redakteur van Taalgenoot deel sy 10 gunsteling-boeke

April 21, 2017, 4:52 am
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Johan Jack Smith, die redakteur van Taalgenoot, het onlangs geskryf dat hy deesdae baie meer waardering het vir boeke wat hy destyds op skool gelees het, en hoe sy voorliefde vir lees deur R.R. Ryger se Beertjie en sy Boytjies geprikkel is.

Vandag kyk ek anders na Kringe in ’n Bos, Fiela se Kind en Die jaar toe my ma begin sing het. Ek het meer waardering. Maar as tiener was ek keelvol vir tragiese verhale, diere wat uitsterf en die hartseer en foltering van die Afrikaner. Dit het my nie oortuig om vakansietye televisie, video’s en videospeletjies vir ’n boek op te gee nie.

Smith is tot vandag toe nog ‘n groot liefhebber van Afrikaanse letterkunde, maar hy voeg by dat hy ook maar probeer om meer Engels te lees.

Klik hier vir Smith se lys van top 10 gunsteling boeke, hoekom dit ietwat moeilik is om vir ‘n peuter aan boeke te voorstel, en hoe ‘n naweek wat hy in die hospitaal moes deurbring hom aan’t die lees gekry het…
 

Beertjie en sy Boytjies

 
 
 

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Die jaar toe my ma begin sing het

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“Ek het genoeg van veroudering en ouderdom meegemaak om seker te wees dat ek self nie oud wil word nie”– geliefde skrywer Karel Schoeman neem sy eie lewe

May 3, 2017, 2:39 am
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Die geliefde en bekroonde skrywer, Karel Schoeman, het op ouderdom 77 sy eie lewe geneem.

Schoeman het luidens ‘n brief, wat op 27 April 2017 onderteken is, reeds jare gelede besluit om sy lewe “betyds te beëindig”.

Dié brief is aan Schoeman se prokureur Carl van Rensburg gerig; Van Rensburg is deur Schoeman toestemming gegun om die brief aan die openbaar uit te reik.

“Die besluit om jou eie lewe te beëindig, bly natuurlik ’n hoogs persoonlike saak wat ek nie blindelings wil aanbeveel nie; dog sover dit myself betref, is ek dankbaar dat die besluit geneem en ook uitgevoer word,” het Schoeman geskryf.

Schoeman is die skrywer van onder meer By Fakkellig, Na die Geliefde Land, Op ‘n Eiland, en Hierdie Lewe.
 

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By Fakkellig

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Op 'n Eiland

 
 
 
 
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Exclusive Books Homebru 2017 selection announced

June 1, 2017, 5:51 am
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Exclusive Books has announced their selection of fiction, non-fiction, cookery and children’s books for their annual Homebru campaign.

This year’s slogan was ‘books by us, written for you’. According to Ben Williams, general manager of Exclusive Books, the nearly fifty titles on the list “represent a highly engaging slice of current South African writing and life.”

With titles as diverse as Fred Strydom’s work of speculative fiction, The Inside-Out Man, Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s political analysis, The Republic of Gupta, and the colourful array of cookery and children’s books, including Khanyisa Malabi’s Legacy of Living and Sparkles of Taste and Carol-Ann Davids’ The Hair Fair, this year’s list certainly is representative of contemporary South African writing.

The titles which appear on the list are:

NON-FICTION

Confluence


Confluence: Beyond the River with Siseko Ntondini
by Piers Cruickshanks
 
 
 
 
 
Bending the RulesBending the Rules: Memoir of a Pioneering Diplomat
by Rafique Gangat
 
 
 
 
 
 
Making Africa WorkMaking Africa Work: A handbook for economic success
by Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst, Olusegun Obasanjo & Dickie Davis
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Republic of GuptaThe Republic of Gupta: A Story of State Capture
by Pieter-Louis Myburgh
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dreams, Betrayal and Hope Dreams, Betrayal and Hope
by Mamphela Ramphele
 
 
 
 
 
 
Apartheid Guns and MoneyApartheid, Guns and Money: A tale of profit
by Hennie Van Vuuren
 
 
 
 
 
 
Traces and Tracks: A Thirty-Year Journey with the SanTraces and Tracks: A thirty year journey with the San
by Paul Weinberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
FICTION

Selling Lip ServiceSelling Lip Service
by Tammy Baikie
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hlomu The Wife
Zandile The Resolute
Naledi His Love
by Dudu Busani-Dube
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dancing the Death DrillDancing the Death Drill
by Fred Khumalo
 
 
 
 
 
 
Emperor Shaka the GreatEmperor Shaka The Great (English Edition)
Unodumehlezi Kamenzi (isiZulu Edition)
by Masizi Kunene
 
 
 
 
 
 
Being KariBeing Kari
by Qarnita Loxton
 
 
 
 
 
 
Recognition
Recognition: An Anthology of South African Short Stories
edited by David Medalie
 
 
 
 
 
 
Web
Web
by Naomi Meyer
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Last StopThe Last Stop
by Thabiso Mofokeng
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Third Reel
The Third Reel
Die Derde Spoel
by S J Naudé
 
 
 
 
 
 
If I Stay Right Here
If I Stay Right Here
by Chwayita Ngamlana
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ayixoxeki NakuxoxekaAyixoxeki Nakuxoxeka
by Mbongeni Cyprian Nzimande
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Gorgeously illustrated fable creates awareness about the endangered riverine rabbit; available in both English and Afrikaans

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Louisa Punt-Fouché

In Rarest Riverine Rabbit the author weaves words and images to create awareness about the tame but endangered riverine rabbit that lives on her farm in the Karoo. When Lila (an old lady that uses her walking stick to count all the animals on earth) wanders through the Karoo and meets the magnificent Bruno with his very, very long ears, his life changes forever. Rarest Riverine Rabbit is a fable that hopes to make children and adults aware of the disastrous impact we have on a precious environment. The author’s magical illustrations will also introduce young readers to the rich plant and animal life of the Karoo.

Originals or prints of the illustrations can be ordered from the author. Also visit www.kredouwfarm.com and www.sashadonoharm.com to read about Louisa and her husband’s projects and their attempts to save the riverine rabbit.

Louisa Punt-Fouché has more than 30 years’ experience as a clinical psychologist, researcher, and lecturer in die field of Jungian psychology. (She holds a D.Phil Degree in Psychology). Louisa is also an established visual artist, author, yoga instructor, canteadora (keeper of stories) and activist for animal rights. Three years ago she and her husband moved to the Prince Albert Valley where they live and work on the Kredouw Olive Farm. She also makes jewellery and environmentally friendly vegan olive oil products (Sasha Do No Harm) that are not tested on animals. Some of her previous books include Webs of Enchantment and Daar is kewers in my ruggraat.

In Skaarser-as-skaarste oewerkonyn gebruik die skrywer woordbeelde om die storie te vertel van die mak, maar bedreigde oewerkonyn wat op haar plaas in die Karoo woon.

Wanneer Lila (’n ou vrou wat haar kierie gebruik om al die diere op aarde te tel) deur die Karoo stap en Bruno die oewerkonyn ontmoet, word dié besonderse dier met sy lang, lang ore se wêreld op sy kop gekeer. Skaarser-as-skaarste oewerkonyn is nie ’n gewone kinderboek nie, maar ’n fabel wat ouers én kinders bewus maak van die mens se vernietigende impak op die omgewing. Boonop stel die skrywer se magiese illustrasies jong lesers bekend aan die Karoo se ryk plante- en dierelewe.

Kunswerke of afdrukke van illustrasies kan bestel word by skrywer. Besoek ook www.kredouwfarm.com en www.sashadonoharm.com om meer te lees oor Louisa en haar man se projekte en hul pogings om die oewerkonyn te red.

Louisa Punt-Fouché het meer as 30 jaar se ervaring as kliniese sielkundige, navorser en lektor in die veld van Jungiaanse sielkunde. (Sy het onder meer ’n D.Phil-graad in sielkunde verwerf.) Sy is ook ’n gevestigde visuele kunstenaar, skrywer, joga-instrukteur, canteadora (storieverteller) en kampvegter vir diereregte. Sy en haar man het die stad verlaat en woon en werk die afgelope drie jaar op die Kredouw-olyfplaas in die Prins Albert-vallei. Hier maak sy ook juwele en omgewingsvriendelike olyfolieprodukte (Sasha Do No Harm) wat nie op diere getoets word nie. ‘n Gedeelte van die wins word gebruik om die oewerkonyn te bewaar. Van haar vorige boeke sluit in Webs of Enchantment en Daar is kewers in my ruggraat.

Skaarser-as-skaarste oewerkonyn

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