Robin Stuart-Clark
THERE’S a certain magic about beautifully illustrated children’s books, something that can set your child’s imagination soaring for a life of loving reading.
And that lies at the heart of small South African independent publisher, Bumble Books, which has just won the Best Children’s Book Publisher Africa at the prestigious Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
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THERE are many more ways to share stories, imagined or real, than just the written word. So, expand your storytelling horizons at the Franschhoek Literary Festival 2016, which runs from May 13 to 15, in the Western Cape. Continue reading
THERE will be a book reading and discussion of I’m Not Your Weekend Special: Portraits on the life, style and politics of Brenda Fassie, edited by Bongani Madondo, at the Newtown Junction Mall at 6.30 pm on May 5. Continue reading
Philani Dladla
JOHANNESBURG readers, book lovers and friends – here’s an event you have to put in your diary: the 2016 South African Indie Revolution (SAIR) Charity Event, which will be bursting with local talent in aid of their 1 000 book pledge donation for The Pavement Bookworm Foundation.
The event takes place at 3 pm on Saturday, April 30 at Skoobs Theatre of Books at Montecasino in Fourways, and will see Morning Live presenter Samm Marshall host authors Jean Archary, Fred Strydom (The Raft), Joanne Macgregor (Dark Whispers), Adrienne Woods (Firebolt) and Sonia Killik (Birth: F*ck yeah!) as well as The Pavement Bookworm author himself, Philani Dladla.
Other speakers include Ellaine Pillay, Kamo Modisane and David Henderson. Violinist Hana Yim-Wahl will be providing entertainment.
Tickets cost R200 and can be purchased by contacting SAIR directly. All profits go towards the Pavement Bookworm Foundation. Entry is R200.
INTERNATIONAL producers have secured the rights to Showdown at the Red Lion (Jonathan Ball Publishers) and Masked Raiders by Charles van Onselen to make an international television drama Series, based upon the acclaimed books. Continue reading
SEVEN African writers have made the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist. Twenty-six stories by writers from 11 countries make up the shortlist.
The prize – which aims to “bring stories from new and emerging voices, often from countries with little or no publishing infrastructure, to the attention of an international audience” – received nearly 4,000 entries from 47 countries this year. Continue reading
South African poet Keorapetse “Bra Willie” Kgositsile is taking part in the festival. Photo: Supplied
THE Spier ‘dancing in other words’ Poetry Festival, curated by Breyten Breytenbach and Dominique Botha and composer, Neo Muyanga, will be taking place at the Spier Wine Farm, outside Stellenbosch, on Saturday, May 7. Continue reading
THE longlist for the 2016 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction has been announced, in association with Porcupine Ridge.
This is the 27th year the Alan Paton Award will be bestowed on a book that presents “the illumination of truthfulness, especially those forms of it that are new, delicate, unfashionable and fly in the face of power”, and that demonstrates “compassion, elegance of writing, and intellectual and moral integrity”. Continue reading
THE longlist for the 2016 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize has been announced.
The prize criteria stipulate that the winner should be “a novel of rare imagination and style, evocative, textured and a tale so compelling as to become an enduring landmark of contemporary fiction”. Continue reading
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