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Margie Orford and Isobel Dixon at the UK Launch of The Cambridge History of SA Lit

by Chiara on Feb 13th, 2012

Orford, Dixon, Attridge, Attwell

The Cambridge History of South African LiteratureImke van Heerden attended the UK launch of The Cambridge History of South African Literature, a new book edited by Derek Attridge and David Attwell. The book weighs in at over 900 pages and features 43 contributors reflecting on the history of South African literature in all eleven official languages.

The launch took place at the University of York, and was attended by, among others, Margie Orford (Gallows Hill), Isobel Dixon (The Tempest Prognosticator) and Michael Cawood Green (For the Sake of Silence).

LitNet featured van Heerden’s photographs and coverage of the event on their website. At the launch, Orford described how “reading a crime scene is like reading a literary text” and Attridge noted, “The fiction of Margie Orford is pacy, driven and intellectually riveting”.

Doubling the PointJM Coetzee and the Ethics of ReadingJM CoetzeeThe Tempest PrognosticatorGallows HillFor the Sake of Silence

Both Attwell and Attridge are known for their work on the fiction of JM Coetzee – Attridge is the author of JM Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading and Attwell is the author of JM Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing. Attwell said that the project is “unashamedly a national project, but not a nationalist one”, while Dixon described the collection as a “panorama…a teeming hive of ideas, of many many voices”.

The book will be launched in South Africa at The Book Lounge on the 13th (Cape Town) and on the 10th in Johannesburg (venue to be announced).

Margie Orford

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