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by Maggie Marx on Mar 28th, 2013
Verdict: stick
If the work is great, the publicist, the readers and the author are united in their joy; if it’s bad, the event organisers, the author and the publicists will think of the review as a hatchet job.
For a few months now I have been meaning to read Who Fears Death, a novel by Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor (she was born in the United States).
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by Maggie Marx on Mar 25th, 2013
Uitspraak: wortel
Was jy al ooit verlief op iemand? Skoon dom verlief? Dié romantiese bundel sal jou hart tjoklits laat klop en jou tone laat omkrul van lekkerkry. Dit bevat liefdesverhale van Anzil Kulsen, Christien Neser, Elizabeth Wasserman, Elmarie Botes, Fanie Viljoen, Jaco Jacobs, Nelia Engelbrecht en Solet Scheeres.
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by Maggie Marx on Mar 22nd, 2013
Uitspraak: stokkierige wortel
Derick van der Walt het lesers se verbeelding aangegryp met Lien se lankstaanskoene.
Hierop volg Willem Poprok en Daan Dreyer se blou geranium, wat albei sy besondere fyn waarnemingsvermoë en insig in die aard van die mens pragtig uitstal. Daan Dreyer se blou geranium is as roman vir volwassenes gekategoriseer, Willem Poprok as jeugverhaal, maar albei is geskik vir jong en ouer lesers.
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by Lindsay on Mar 13th, 2013
Sonke Gender Justice Network and Cover2Cover Books invite you to the launch of From Boys to Men by Londi Gamedze and Dorothy Dyer, a high interest youth novel in the Harmony High series.
The book is the result of a collaborative project as part of the One Man Can campaign.
The event will be held on Wednesday 20 March at the Cape Town Central Library from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Don’t miss it!
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by Carolyn on Mar 7th, 2013
By Shaka Sisulu for The Times
I love stories. I love storybooks. I still remember some of my childhood stories. I can’t even say I had a favourite story – I just loved story time. Even when I was older, I made sure I had my story time.
My mother made sure I was exposed to books. When I was 11, I discovered the most interesting library. It was in an ANC camp for MK soldiers in Angola, just outside Luanda.
Soldiers stayed there; they taught us how to use guns. There was one room that was always kept locked. But at one stage the room was opened. And when we finally got inside it was full of books – books that had been donated by countries like Sweden, Russia and China – books in many different languages. I couldn’t believe it. I thought I was in a mini-heaven. The guy who opened the room said: “Do you like books? You can take as many as you like.” I still to this day have some of those books.
My writing is an observation of what is happening. In life we are all in pursuit of something – I am in pursuit of interesting experiences. You take notice of the interesting stories, things that make you laugh, that are sad, that are poignant, that have a message.
My parents gave me one of their old typewriters. It was a travel typewriter, with a case, and I carried it around. One day I put it down and started to use it; I started writing short stories. I would read stories and then make up different endings for them.
These books were developed in conjunction with the Little Hands Trust and the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in Africa.
The value of this donation is about R300000.
- Becoming is published by Pan Macmillan
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by Lindsay on Mar 6th, 2013
Verdict: carrot
World Fantasy Award-winning novelist Nnedi Okorafor’s debut young adult novel is Akata Witch, a beautifully wrought hero’s journey story about Sunny, a young girl with albinism born to Nigerian parents in America, and then returned to Nigeria, where she discovers that she is a Leopard Person — a born sorcerer.
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by Maggie Marx on Feb 25th, 2013
Uitspraak: almal wortels!
Tina bly op die dorp Coetzeesrus in die Karoo saam met haar grootmaakpa en haar ma. Sy gaan na die Engelse skool Rising Star, en presteer die beste in haar klas, maar tog wil sy na die Afrikaanse dorpskool toe gaan.
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by Maggie Marx on Feb 22nd, 2013
Die UKZN Kinderboekfees vind vanjaar op 27 en 28 Februarie op die Universiteit van KwaZulu-Natal se Pietermaritzburg-kampus plaas.
Die fees is tans die enigste van sy soort in die land en fokus hoofsaaklik op primêre en sekondêre leerders sowel as Afrikaanse onderwysers. Daar sal boekuitstallings wees en lesers kan hul gunsteling-skrywers soos Francois Bloemhof, Carina Diedericks-Hugo, Jan van Tonder, Marita van der Vyver en Nico Moolman ontmoet.
Die organiseerder van die fees, Darryl David, is ook die man agter die boekedorpie Richmond onder andere die Boekbedonnerd literêre fees, die Athol Fugard-fees, die Bryten Breytenbach-fees en die Olive Schreiner Karoo-skrywersfees.
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U word vriendelik uitgenooi na UKZN se kinderboekfees, in samewerking met die ATKV en LAPA-uitgewers, wat op 27 en 28 Februarie op die Pietermaritzburg-kampus gaan plaasvind.
Hierdie fees is tans die enigste van sy soort in SA. Die fokus van die fees is op beide primêre en sekondêre leerders sowel as Afrikaanse onderwysers. Die volgende bekende skrywers sal as sprekers by die fees optree: Jan van Tonder (Roepman); Francois Bloemhof; Marita van der Vyver; Nico Moolman en Carina Diedericks-Hugo.
Die 27ste Februarie sal in twee sessies verdeel word. Die eerste sessie (9:00 – 11:00) sal op die grondslag fase gerig word en die middag sessie (12: 00 – 14:30) op die intermediêre fase.
Die 28ste Februarie se klem verskuif na hoërskool leerlinge en vind plaas tussen 9:00 en 14:30.
Daar sal ook boekuitstallings wees wat dan ’n gulde geleentheid kan bied om die Afrikaanse boeke vir skoolbiblioteke aan te vul. Leerders sal ook die geleentheid hê om die gewildste Afrikaanse boeke te koop.
Indien u belangstel om hierdie fees by te woon en meer besonderhede oor die program wil hê, kontak gerus Darryl David (davidd@ukzn.ac.za), Eugene Marais (maraise@ukzn.ac.za) of Loraine Prinsloo (prinslool@ukzn.ac.za) teen 20 Februarie 2013.
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by Lindsay on Feb 4th, 2013
Samuel Kolawole from efrika.tv has compiled a list of African writers to keep an eye on this year. The thirteen writers “who will rock the literary scene this year” include Books LIVE members Lauren Beukes, Sarah Lotz and Rachel Zadok. Both Beukes and Zadok have books coming out this year with The Shining Girls (Umuzi) set to be released in May and Zadok’s Sister Sister (Kwela Books) coming out in April. The Three by Lotz will be out in 2014.
Other books Kolawole is looking forward to are We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go, Victor Ehikhamenor’s collection of essays Excuse Me! and Alain Mabanckou’s Tomorrow I Will be Twenty Years Old. He also recommends keeping an eye out for A Igoni Barrett’s Love Is Power, or Something Like That, Nnedi Okorafor’s KabuKabu and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah.
This year is looking good for African writing. We should expect new discoveries and fresh voices to emerge from the continent as there are still stories yet to be told whilst those who have already proven themselves will likely wax stronger. efrika’s Samuel Kolawole considers writers who will rock the literary scene this year.
1) Noviolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe)
We Need New Names is the lovely title of the forthcoming debut novel by Noviolet Bulawayo (pen name of Elizabeth Tshele). Noviolet won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2011 for her story Hitting Budapest.
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by Maggie Marx on Jan 22nd, 2013
Afrikaanse kultuurhistorikus en skrywer Pieter W Grobbelaar is gedurende die naweek op Worcester oorlede. Grobbelaar het tydens sy loopbaan meer as 200 boeke gepubliseer. Hy het dit sy lewenstaak gemaak om volksverhale en -rympies te dokumenteer en toeganklik te maak vir jonk en oud, soos byvoorbeeld in sy mees onlangse boek, Jakkals en Wolf.
Familie en lede van die uitgewersbedryf het Grobbelaar geprys vir sy wye navorsing en passie vir volksverhale van regoor die wêreld. Alida Potgieter, ’n uitgewer wat vir meer as 14 jaar saam met Grobbelaar gewerk het, het haar respek vir sy kennis uitgespreek.
Die man wat volksverhale en Afrikaanse rympies by “mense gaan haal” en dit tot in die huis van lesers gebring het, is dood.
Prof. Pieter W. Grobbelaar (82), kultuurhistorikus en skrywer wat meer as 200 boeke gepubliseer het, is Saterdag in ’n ouetehuis op Worcester oorlede.
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