Writers from very different places can grapple with the same questions.
Articles on South African writers
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Niall and Leah’s long distance relationship will test what love and career mean on a planet in crisis.
Her poem I’ve Come to Take You Home was written into French law. It deals with the repatriation of the remains of Sarah Baartman.
A beautifully written book that shows why nostalgia is not to be trusted.
Admitting the variety, embracing the fractures, this was the lesson of all of Wicomb’s writing.
A guide to the work of an acclaimed writer who represented the marginalised in society.
In his new book, Carl Death weighs up climate policies in African countries with each country’s stories and films about climate change.
The Interpreters is a new anthology of creative nonfiction that opens an intriguing window on South Africa.
His characters – tramps, discarded people, poor people, people on the fringes – are connected with all the people we know of today who are refugees.
Deep South, a small publisher with big influence, has expanded its website with easy-to-access information about its poets and their work.
He explored the darker realities of South African life in three novels before his untimely passing at the age of 30.
From angry spirits and parallel universes to alien abductions and epic folklore, African writers are offering fresh new horizons for the world’s science fiction landscape.
The celebrated South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach has died at 85. He used his art to fight for justice for marginalised people throughout his life.
Nthikeng Mohlele is a unique voice in South African literature. Revolutionaries’ House is his most political work so far, but far from his best.
Fanon’s famous book was translated to isiZulu by South African writer and scholar Makhosazana Xaba.
The award-winning South African playwright has written a masterful short story about a woman having to play a challenging theatre role.
After a messy break-up, Mangi loses his job and finds himself destitute in downtown Johannesburg. That’s where his transformation begins.
Despite being detained by the apartheid government and his work being banned, Matthews never stopped writing truth to power and was celebrated around the world.
The South African novelist messes with the line between fiction and non-fiction.
Wrapped in Rhythm powerfully uses the poems of Lebo Mashile as lyrics.
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Research Associate, University of Johannesburg
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Research Associate, Humanities Research Centre (and African Literature Department, University of the Witwatersrand), University of York
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Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, University of Manchester
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Adjunct Professor, Richmond American International University
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in English, University of the Western Cape
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Poet and lecturer in Creative Writing, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Creative Writing and English Literature, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor of History, Director of the Center for African Studies, Stanford University
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Senior Lecturer, South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Nelson Mandela University
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Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa