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Book Launch: Deaf Me Normal by Ruth Morgan
The invitation for Deaf Me Normal: Deaf South Africans tell their life stories has just slipped into my mailbox. The title immediately reminded me of another excellent book on the topic that I read many years ago, Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World by Leah Hager Cohen,
Tis the Season
As much as I’m a fan of the local Olympus sized department store in the mall near my office I can’t help but wonder what they were thinking when they put up this year’s Christmas decorations. I was there when they started and even the staff looked slightly
No Filleting: An Anthology of African Diaries [Nov 20th 1976/1861
1976 Julu says she is one of those dogged persons who keeps on writing, not knowing whether I receive her letters or not. There has been no indication from me. She and Mahomed ‘squeezed in’ a trip to Mexico and en route stopped at Philadelphia to see her niece Leila.
Many Happy Returns to Nadine Gordimer
Today is Nadine Gordimer’s 85th birthday and from the bottom of my heart I want to wish her a Happy Birthday. (Photo: Interviewing Nadine Gordimer in February 2004.) The following is a paper I gave at the University of Namibia in Windhoek in April this year. Subsequently, it was
Call for Literary Events: Dec 08 - Mar 09
Do you have any literary event that you’d like to publicise? Send details (a paragraph and contact details, with email or website if possible) to happenings@wordsetc.co.za by noon November 25. It must be literary events taking place between December and March 2009. The event will appear on the events
Edith Venter, Coca-Cola and The Art of Good Living
The Art of Good Living details the story of Edith Venter as told to writer Heather Dugmore - whom Venter describes as “the best psychiatrist in town.” A recent article by Karen van Rooyen introduces us to the book while at the same time crafting a nifty insight piece
Dancing on the Streets, World Literature Festival Oslo, September
How do I start describing the World Literary Festival at Oslo in September this year? Shall we talk about trams first? Yes, Trams, the same trams that rumbles down on busy thoroughfares of Kolkata. Trams are reminiscent of the British Raj in India and therefore boarding a tram from the
Link Love During "Zapiro Week" - and Win a Signed Book!
Because he’s hot and we love him, BOOK SA is linking all you Zapiro fans to his official website, Zapiro.com. We know you love him too. Whereas the followers of another prominent character who has captured the popular imagination have gone on record swearing their allegiance, willing to die (some
Book Launch: Do it! by James Motlatsi and Bobby Godsell
Jacana Media is pleased to invite you to the launch of a book that looks into our homes, our schools, our workplaces, our communities - and in the public marketplace of ideas - to extract and propose practical ways in which we can become active citizens, taking responsibility for change,
Carrot! Jane Rosenthal on Heartfruit
Toward the end of her review of Ingrid Wolfaardt’s first novel, Heartfruit, Jane Rosenthal lets loose an orange barb that would make many an SA author blush with pleasure: “As in Pauline Smith’s The Beadle,” she says, “we have an English novel that feels or reads like Afrikaans”. Pauline Smith