Professor Mazisi Kunene. Photo: Kunene Foundation
THE Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), within the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s College of Humanities will host the 20th Poetry Africa International Festival from October 10 to 15.
Arguably the largest and longest-running poetry festival in Africa, Poetry Africa has, over the years, hosted a wide variety of internationally-acclaimed poetic voices from all over the world. Continue reading
Agatha Christie
MAMMOTH Screen and Agatha Christie Productions Ltd will be presenting a brand new TV adaptation of Agatha Christie’s short story, The Witness for the Prosecution. Continue reading
PAUL Beatty (The Sellout), Deborah Levy (Hot Milk), Graeme Macrae Burnet (His Bloody Project), Ottessa Moshfegh (Eileen), David Szalay (All That Man) and Madeleine Thien (Do Not Say We Have Nothing) are the six shortlisted authors for the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Continue reading
Tom Burke is set to play Cormoran Strike in the BBC adaptation of The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil, written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym, Robert Galbraith.
THREE television dramas, based on J.K. Rowling’s crime novels – written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith – are heading for the small screen, courtesy of the BBC.
British actor, Tom Burke (The Musketeers, War and Peace) will play Cormoran Strike, a war veteran turned private detective, who operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street in the adaptations of The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil. Continue reading
THE Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College campus in Durban is calling for emerging poets to take part in the 20th Poetry Africa festival as Prelude Poets. Continue reading
THE Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal is inviting school pupils to submit their poems as part of the 20th Poetry Africa Schools Competition. Continue reading
THE Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), within the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s College of Humanities will host the 20th Poetry Africa International Festival from October 10 to 15. Continue reading
The 2016 Arts Alive Festival and the Department of Arts and Culture are hosting the 4th International African Women Writers’ Symposium, with master classes and workshops, panel discussions, poetry and music performances from September 15 to 17. Continue reading
UKZN Press will present three book launches, featuring four dynamic and interesting writers and engaging speakers at the Hilton Festival, which runs from September 16 to 18 at Hilton College. Continue reading
Nadia Hashimi. PHOTO: Chris Carter Photography
NADIA Hashimi, the international best-selling author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When The Moon Is Low, will be in Pietermaritzburg on Monday, September 12 to launch her latest novel, A House Without Windows.
The event, during which Hashimi will be in discussion with Margaret von Klemperer, former books editor of The Witness, at Exclusive Books in the Liberty Midlands Mall, at 5.30 pm for 6 pm.
If you are interested in attending the launch, please RSVP to 033 342 2074 or midlands@exclusivebooks.co.za. Continue reading
theluvvie 