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Noor-Jehan Yoro Badat from The Star interviewed Vanessa Goosen before the launch of her biography, Drug Muled, at Hyde Park Corner shopping centre. Goosen spoke …
Die internasionale Dansende Digtersfees het verlede naweek by die Spier-wynlandgoed buite Stellenbosch plaasgevind. Dié fees, met Breyten Breytenbach as kurator, het ten doel gehad …
Andile Ndlovu chatted to Lauren Beukes for The Times about her new novel, The Shining Girls, and the film rights offers that she has received …
It’s Franschhoek Literary Festival time: follow all the action from day three of the 2013 fest on our FLF Liveblog!
10.10
The late radio and television journalist Vuyo Mbuli – whose voice more than any other’s, it might be said, was the sound of SA’s first 20 years of democracy – is remembered at the School Hall, where the panellists are trying to answer the question, “What’s Going on in the ANC?”
#flf13 Panel makes mention of the sad passing of Vuyo Mbuli
— Tymon Smith (@tymonsmith) May 19, 2013
10.08
Lindsay Callaghan is in the cosy Screening Room for a chat on Thomas Pringle:
Bill Nasson and Randolph Vignes at the Thomas Pringle discussion #flf13 twitter.com/LindsayCal/sta…
— Lindsay(@LindsayCal) May 19, 2013
10.07
#flf13 Moeletsi Mbeki, Carol Paton and Richard Calland get ready to figure out What’s Going on in the ANC? img.ly/uRCn
— Tymon Smith (@tymonsmith) May 19, 2013
#flf13 Politics is king at the FLF so no surprise that theschool hall is packed for this discussion
— Tymon Smith (@tymonsmith) May 19, 2013
10.06
And the final day of the Franschhoek Literary Festival kicks off! Carolyn Meads is at the Congregational Church, where newly-Alan-Paton-shortlisted Xolela Mangcu is talking about Steve Biko with Suren Pillay and Christi van der Westhuizen:
.@surenpillay, Xolela Mangcu & Christi v d Westhuizen at discussion on Mangcu’s book Biko: A Biography #flf13 twitter.com/carolynmeads/s…
— Carolyn Meads (@carolynmeads) May 19, 2013
10.03
Have you bought your Sunday paper yet?
Check out today’s @sundaytimesza for more on the #STLitAwards shortlists twitter.com/BooksLIVESA/st…
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) May 19, 2013
09.47
Oops! Wrong embed from @carolynmeads – here’s where she’ll be from 10-11am:
First up, the talk on Steve Biko by Xolela Mangcu, Suren Pillay & Christi van der Westhuizen #flf13
— Carolyn Meads (@carolynmeads) May 19, 2013
09.45
So who’s tweeting what this first hour?
Livetweeting the #flf13 again today with @lindsaycal, @bookishmaggie & @tymonsmith for @bookslivesa
— Carolyn Meads (@carolynmeads) May 19, 2013
Last day of #flf13! Follow my tweets of Matguerite Poland and Patricia Glyn’s chat about Africa’s song for us in A Song for Africa.
— Maggie Marx (@BookishMaggie) May 19, 2013
First session I’m attending today is Bill Nasson talking to Randolph Vigne about “Thomas Pringle: SA Pioneer, poet and abolitionist” #flf13
— Lindsay(@LindsayCal) May 19, 2013
#flf13 Morning. Next up I’ll be finding out what’s going on in the ANC with Moeletsi Mbeki and Carol Paton
— Tymon Smith (@tymonsmith) May 19, 2013
09.43
…we’re back LIVE at the 2013 Franschhoek Literary Festival!
The Books LIVE team covering the final Saturday session of the FLF comprises these stellar tweeters -
Carolyn Meads, tweeting via @carolynmeads
Lindsay Callaghan, tweeting via @lindsaycal
Maggie Marx, tweeting via @BookishMaggie
Tymon Smith, tweeting via @tymonsmith
The Books LIVE Twitter account will also be active today, as we cover various events via @BooksLIVESA.
Follow #flf13 and #flf2013 to watch the festival unfold across all venues, or track each tweeter individually if you have a particular interest in their event.
And in other news…
May 19, 2013, 10:09 am
Andie Miller is reading Killing for Profit by Julian Rademeyer
May 18, 2013, 6:18 pm
Check out the full list of international participants. The gender [...]
May 18, 2013, 1:49 pm
revamped4 is reading Stand Up Stand Down by Lynda Rogle
May 18, 2013, 1:30 pm
revamped4 is reading Stand Up Stand Down by Lynda Rogle
May 18, 2013, 1:29 pm
revamped4 is reading Stand Up Stand Down by Lynda Rogle
May 18, 2013, 11:02 am
A time travel loop, Lauren...?
May 18, 2013, 9:51 am
I was supposed to go, but when the UK and [...]
May 17, 2013, 9:32 pm
Sarah Frost is reading Small Things by Nthikeng Mohele
May 17, 2013, 4:06 pm
Tracey Farren - pardon. Must learn to type . . [...]
May 17, 2013, 4:04 pm
I also found the male-washing rather startling. And sad. Yes, [...]
Verdict: stick
J.M. Coetzee’s 12th novel, The Childhood of Jesus, is set in an unnamed country, at an unspecified time. Everyone here, we soon learn, has come from elsewhere, across oceans 
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As daar nou een ding is wat deur die eeue heen onophoudelik aan die suidpunt van Afrika gebeur het, was dit ’n trekkery. Hetsy vrywillig op soek na groener 
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Rangeer is die sewende bundel uit die pen van Du Plessis, wie se debuut in 1984 by Perskor verskyn. (Sy debuut is dan ook die enigste van sy bundels It's Franschhoek Literary Festival time: follow all the action from day three of the 2013 fest on our FLF Liveblog!
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