Located in the small oasis town of Somerset East in the semiarid Karoo midlands of South Africa, there is a house for writers: Paulet House, where emerging and established writers come to give their ...
Andrew van der Vlies has received funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Australian Research Council. Funding from the Leverhulme Trust in 2013 supported some of his work on ...
A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the stories told about the region. By Abdi Latif Dahir Abdi Latif Dahir reported ...
In December 2014, the first Literary Activism symposium was held in Jadavpur University in Calcutta. Conceptualised by the writer Amit Chaudhuri, this series of interventions into the literary culture ...
Janet Remmington has received funding in the past from Oppenheimer Memorial Trust and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. That said, the cultures and literatures of travel from Africa ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Twenty years ago, the South African novelist Andre Brink published a collection of speeches and essays titled "Writing in a State of Siege," in which he spoke of the ...
The 20th edition of the South African Literary Awards (SALA) lived up to its stellar reputation of celebrating excellence when it honoured 49 South African writers, translators and other literary ...
Resistance in South Africa -- A South African publishing apprenticeship -- The search for black writers -- Apartheid sends writers to prison -- What is an African writer? -- Cultural boycott and ...
The authors find that digital services trade and sectoral development play a significantly stronger role in boosting IP ...
Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan writer. She was born 1966. Her short story collection, Tropical Fish, won the Grace Paley Award for Short Fiction in 2003 and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best ...
A plethora of prestigious fellowships and prizes are currently open for African writers and journalists, offering lucrative rewards and invaluable opportunities for career advancement. The ...
In 1965, at the age of 15, my father—along with his parents and two brothers—emigrated from a racist South Africa. His relationship with that nation, over the 42 years since, has been a complicated ...