The first of February every year marks World Read Aloud Day, a day on which writers and members of the public read aloud to children. For this year’s #WRAD18, local literacy advocates Nal’ibali hoped that one million South African children...
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The longlists for the 2017 Sunday Times Literary Awards, consisting of the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction, have been announced. The winners of the two categories will each receive R100 000. Congratulations to the...
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Congratulations to PEN SA members Jen Thorpe, Jacqui L’Ange and Unathi Magubeni, who have been longlisted for the 2016 Etisalat Prize For Literature! Thorpe has been longlisted for The Peculiars, L’Ange for The Seed Thief and Magubeni for The Star...
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With a rich vocabulary that is poetic and uncluttered, this debut novel is nothing short of a masterpiece. It is both a well-written and philosophical book. The story begins with Nokwakha giving birth at her village home, and when it...
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