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Adam Haupt
Dr Adam Haupt is the author of Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion (HSRC Press, 2008), which is available under an open content license at www.hsrcpress.co.za.
The book tells ...
Adam Schwartzman
Adam Schwartzman was born in Johannesburg in 1973. After completing degrees in English literature and development studies at Oxford University, he held positions in the South African National Treasury, the ...
Aernout Zevenbergen
Aernout Zevenbergen was born in Zambia but grew up in the Netherlands.
Since 1997, he has lived and worked in Africa, travelling through more than thirty countries and reporting on news, ...
Aher Arop Bol
Aher Arop Bol (Santino Bol) was born in a Dinka village in the Bahr el Ghazal region of Southern Sudan. The journey described in The Lost Boy is the author’s ...
Alastair Bruce
Alastair Bruce is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Wall of Days.
He was born in Port Elizabeth, spending a large part of his childhood on a smallholding outside ...
Alex Smith
Alex Smith is a mother, writer, traveller, teacher, textile merchant, and adventurer. She is the author of the novels , Four Drunk Beauties, Agency Blue, Algeria’s Way and Drinking from ...
Alistair Morgan
Alistair Morgan was born in Johannesburg in 1971. In 2009 he became the first non-American to win the Plimpton Prize for Fiction. Alistair’s highly acclaimed debut novel Sleeper’s Wake ...
Alta Cloete
Alta Cloete is ’n Sutherlander wat al meer as dertig jaar aan die hitte van die Paarl probeer gewoond raak. Sy kon nog nie daarin slaag nie, maar het wel ...
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Amanda Coetzee
When she isn’t writing crime thrillers, Amanda Coetzee works as a deputy headmistress. She grew up in Bedford, England, and now lives in Rustenburg with her husband and son. Flaming ...
Andie Miller
Andie Miller started out professional life as an actress. From 1993–2007 she worked for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation as resource centre manager and webmaster. In ...
Andrew Brown
Andrew Brown practises as an advocate in Cape Town, and is a reservist sergeant in the South African Police Service. He is the author of four novels: Inyenzi, about the ...
Andrew Feinstein
Andrew Feinstein was elected an ANC member of parliament in South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994. He resigned in 2001 in protest at the ANC government's refusal to allow ...
André Brink
André Brink was born in Vrede in 1935. In his eventful life (certain details of which can be found in a short biography, below) he has written over sixty books ...
André Krüger
André Krüger is mede-eienaar van 'n tweedehandse boekwinkel in Irene, waar hy interessante, versamelbare en antwikariese boeke verkoop.
In 2013 Ontvang hy die UJ-debuutprys vir sy eerste roman, Die twee ...
André Pretorius
André Pretorius is gebore in Marble Hall en het skoolgegaan op Groblersdal. In sy matriekjaar het hy die eerste keer oorsee gegaan – na die Olimpiese Spele in Barcelona ...
Andy Sutherland
Two years after Michael’s death Andy Sutherland decided to write The Summer of the Bees, based primarily on his own diary and the frequent emails he had been sending to ...
Angela Makholwa
Angela Makholwa lives and works in Johannesburg. Her debut novel, Red Ink (2007), is a gripping psychological thriller. This was followed by the entertaining escapades and sexual misadventures of modern ...
Angelina Sithebe
Angelina Sithebe is a writer and a divorced mother of three. Born and raised in Soweto, she's a graduate geologist from Brooklyn College in New York. She has ...
Anne Landsman
ALTHOUGH I grew up in Worcester, a small South African town in the shadow of the Brandwacht mountains, that wasn't the real me. The real me was best friends with ...
Anne Townsend
Anne Townsend works as a writer and researcher. As a Capetonian, she has lived in Singapore, Hong Kong, rural China, Oman, Kuwait, Korea and London. She has a keen interest ...
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