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Fiction Friday: read Bushra al-Fadil’s winning entry for the 2017 Caine Prize...
The Sudanese writer Bushra al-Fadil was announced as the winner of the 2017 Caine Prize for African Writing on 3 July. His story, “The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away”, translated by Max...
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Read an excerpt from the third book in Bontle Senne’s Afrocentric fantasy...
Only the Shadow Chasers, with their magical knives, can save the world from the evil that lives in the dreamworld. “Scary riveting fun! Escape in this magical and modern South African fantasy.” –...
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The reluctant president: an extract from Mandla Langa’s Dare Not Linger
Published in the Sunday Times Nelson Mandela never finished the sequel to Long Walk to Freedom. Using his draft, notes and a wealth of archival material, Mandla Langa has completed the chronicle of...
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Fiksie Vrydag: Jacques de Viljee se kortverhaal, My laaste aand (in Kaapstad)
Foto’s: Jacques de Viljee, Instagram Jacques de Viljee is ’n skrywer van Kaapstad. Sy werk is al in New Contrast en op LitNet en Klyntji.com gepubliseer. My laaste aand (in Kaapstad) Jacques de Viljee...
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“We remembered blundering, in fog, into a nudist colony”– Terry Bell shares...
Published in the Sunday Times It was a book that was supposed to have been written as we travelled half a century ago. But all the notes and everything else we owned was lost, stolen in Madrid. That...
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“Etienne sees only one face in the twilight crowd: Axel’s.” Read an excerpt...
Published in the Sunday Times The opening band is called Namenlos. They play their first song: Stunde Null is waiting behind the stage. Mindless copycats, Etienne thinks. Echolalic music. There is a...
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“Barbetje had helped me with the first two births – the unsuccessful births....
Published in the Sunday Times Barbetje cleared her throat again. “Just say what you want to say,” I told her, addressing her in English this time. My English was better than hers by then. Barbetje...
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Read an excerpt from Lesego Rampolokeng’s Bird-Monk Seding, shortlisted for...
Published in the Sunday Times Lesego Rampolokeng is a poet, word performer, and the author of 12 books, including two plays and three novels. He has collaborated with visual artists, playwrights,...
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Read an extract from Francois Smith’s The Camp Whore, shortlisted for the...
Published in the Sunday Times Rock. Above me and around me. I am in a cave, I know that now. On the rockface eland are leaping over me, and between them are little black men with knobkerries in their...
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“The blood of the woman on the stoep of my father’s shop was redder than...
Published in the Sunday Times “My name is Alice and I am as old as the mountains.” Richard Ho’s grandmother spoke into Cherie Sadie’s camera. “As old as the mine dumps. As old as Mandela. We were born...
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