Tweets from the Boekbedonnerd Literary Festival 2012
The annual Richmond Boekbedonnerd Literary Festival was held in the Karoo last weekend. The festival included Mike Nicol‘s discussion about killing off your characters and the launch of Deon Meyer’s 7 Days, among other interesting talks.
Books LIVE live-tweeted from some of the talks, using #Boekbedonnerd:
Friday 26 October
Sarah Lotz gave a talk entitled “Why writing pulp fiction isn’t a crime”:
Sarah Lotz speaks to packed room at #BoekBedonnerd V twitter.com/BooksLIVESA/st…
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 26, 2012
Publishers said they want the new Twilight – Lotz said ok, I’ll give you Twilight, but with Zombies #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 26, 2012
Lotz’s daughter, Savannah, told her that the idea was lame, so Lotz invited her daughter to write the book with her #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 26, 2012
Deadlands – written under the name Lily Herne – became the first local Zombie novel #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 26, 2012
Lotz challenges the dichotomy between literary fiction and genre fiction -doesn’t think it’s necessary #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 26, 2012
Mike Nicol, author of Monkey Business discussed the “Death of the main manne: killing your darlings”:
Nicol moved from writing literary fiction to writing genre fiction -saw that @meyerdeon has Rolex watch and there was money #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 26, 2012
With genre fiction, characters are more likely to go from book to book #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 26, 2012
#Boekbedonnerd Nicol – you can decide that you are growing bored of your character and decide to kill them off. Conan Doyle and Holmes.
— Tymon Smith (@tymonsmith) October 26, 2012
Conan Doyle was persuaded to return Holmes due to reader and publisher response – Hound of the Baskervilles #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 26, 2012
Nicol- you do not go and kill people who are making you a whole lot of money – even if they aren’t real! #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 26, 2012
#Boekbedonnerd Nicol When Andrew Brown took Bennie Griesl from Deon, Deon too nice to say anything. I’m not.
— Tymon Smith (@tymonsmith) October 26, 2012
Dan Wylie spoke about ‘No other world’: essays on the life-work of Don Maclennan, which he co-edited:
#Boekbedonnerd Wylie remembers MacLennan as mentor and friend.
— Tymon Smith (@tymonsmith) October 26, 2012
Maclennan wrote some 20 volumes – greatest poetry of his generation according to Wylie, but relatively unknown #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 26, 2012
Wylie- His poetry is spare and lucid, concerned with inward aspects of our lives #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 26, 2012
Saturday 27 October
The highlight of the festival was the launch of Deon Meyer’s latest book, 7 Days:
@meyerdeon begins by saying he has now given his Rolex to @mikenicol #BoekBedonnerd twitter.com/BooksLIVESA/st…
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 27, 2012
Meyer refers to earlier character Mike Joubert who made the story quite dark – needed a character to add light #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 27, 2012
Meyer tried to make Griessel a humorous character – he started demanding more and more page time, had originally minor role #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 27, 2012
By the time Devil’s Peak came along, Meyer says he had created a cliche in the genre – an alcoholic cop #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 27, 2012
Meyer: Suspense is what makes my novels successful – suspense is a result of conflict #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 27, 2012
Meyer notes how this conflict how can be both internal and external – he explores inner conflict of Griessel, becomes darker #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 27, 2012
Ashwin Desai gave a talk on his book, Shakespeare on Robben Island:
Desai – Copy of Shakespeare’s Complete Works was smuggled onto Robben Island disguised by Diwali cards #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 27, 2012
#BoekBedonnerd Ashwin Desai prisoners on Robben Island signed off on the plays that meant the most to them
— Tymon Smith (@tymonsmith) October 27, 2012
Desai – one of the plays that spoke directly to the prisoners was King Lear because of land dispossession #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 27, 2012
Desai asks a similar question at the end of Reading Revolution – what happens when liberation movements come to power #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 27, 2012
Darryl David and Philippe Menache introduced their book, A Platteland Pilgrimage : 102 Country Churches of SA:
David and Menache both have a passion for photographing churches #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 27, 2012
David wants to promote church tourism in South Africa, a concept that hasn’t been done before #BoekBedonnerd
— Books LIVE (@BooksLIVESA) October 27, 2012
Book details
- 7 Days by Deon Meyer
EAN: 9781444723717
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- Tooth and Nailed by Sarah Lotz
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EAN: 9780143026341
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- Monkey Business: The Murder of Anni Dewani: the facts, the fiction, the spin by Mike Nicol
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EAN: 9781415201145
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- ‘No other world’: essays on the life-work of Don Maclennan edited by Dan Wylie, Craig MacKenzie
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EAN: 9780987009524
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- Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island by Ashwin Desai
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EAN: 9781868886838
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- 101 Country Churches of South Africa by Philippe Menache, Darryl David
EAN: 9780620483612
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