Programme Highlights: National Arts Festival and Think!Fest 2013

The annual National Arts Festival, which is held in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, will be on from 27 June – 7 July 2013. We’ve gone through the programme (of 244 pages!) and picked out some of the literary highlights from the main programme and Think!Fest.
It seems that the Wordfest National Authors Programme is on again this year, after last year’s cancellation following the withdrawal of funding from the National Arts Council, although we have yet to see a programme.
On the main programme, look out for Tim Plewman (author of Fitness for Old Farts) in his one man satire, The Last Moustache and Pieter-Dirk Uys in Adapt or Fly and An Audience with Pieter-Dirk EISH!. Kobus Moolman’s stage adaptation of Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of Excelsior is on, as is The Island, written by John Kani, Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona.
Authors to look out for at Think!Fest include Lungisile Ntsebeza, Sarah Mosoetsa, John Kani, Elinor Sisulu, Jane Raphaely, Julian Rademeyer, Patricia Glyn, Tim Noakes, Sean Davison, Sarah Nuttall and Mark Behr.
Joanne Hichens will be launching the anthology Bloody Satisfied, the result of the Short Sharp Stories competition initiated by the National Arts Festival, announcing the overall winner of the award and sharing details about the 2014 competition.
Michael Laspley, co-author of Redeeming the Past, will be speaking at SpiritFest, and the film adaptation of Alistair Morgan’s Sleeper’s Wake will be screened as part of the main Film Festival.
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- Fitness for Old Farts by Tim Plewman
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EAN: 9781432300913
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- The Madonna of Excelsior by Zakes Mda
EAN: 9780195783155
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- Evita\’s Bossie Sikelela by Evita Bezuidenhout
EAN: 9781415201565
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- Nothing But the Truth by John Kani
EAN: 9781868143894
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- Blood Knot and Other Plays by Athol Fugard
EAN: 9781559360203
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- Rural Resistance in South Africa: The Mpondo Revolts after Fifty Years edited by Lungisile Ntsebeza, Thembela Kepe
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EAN: 9781919895345
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- Eating from One Pot: The Dynamics of Survival in Poor South African Households by Sarah Mosoetsa
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EAN: 9781868145331
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- Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In our lifetime by Elinor Sisulu
EAN: 9780864866394
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- Jane Raphaely: Unedited: - by Jane Raphaely
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EAN: 9780620531795
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- Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade by Julian Rademeyer
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EAN: 9781770223349
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- What Dawid Knew: A Journey with the Kruipers by Patricia Glyn
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EAN: 9781770103047
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- Challenging Beliefs: Memoirs of a Career by Tim Noakes, Michael Vlismas
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EAN: 9781770224599
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- After We Said Goodbye by Sean Davison
EAN: 9780143530572
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- Johannesburg: The elusive metropolis edited by Sarah Nuttall, Achille Mbembe
EAN: 9781868144730
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- Kings of the Water by Mark Behr
EAN: 9780349122649
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- Divine Justice by Joanne Hichens
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- Redeeming the Past by Michael Laspley, Stephen Karakashian
EAN: 9781415322918
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- Sleeper’s Wake by Alistair Morgan
EAN: 9781847080714
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