PEN SA’s Q&A with Arja Salafranca

Favourite South African novel / poem?

I don’t have a particular favourite South African poem or novel and that does change with every new book read – but I do enjoy novels by South African novelists such as Damon Galgut and Ingrid Winterbach, for instance. I’m looking very forward to reading Craig Higginson’s just published The Dream House, andFinuala Dowling’s The Fetch... Read more.

Celebrating Short Story Day at the Cape Town Book Fair

Rachel Zadok (author of Gem Squash Tokoloshe and organiser of Short Story Day Africa) and Colleen Higgs (author of the short story collection, Looking for Trouble and publisher at Modjaji Books) will chat to Arja Salafranca (poet, journalist, and author of short story collection The Thin Line) about Short Story Day Africa at the Cape Town Book Fair on Friday, June 15 2012... Read more here

Arja Salafranca at the Franschoek Literary Festival 2012

From left: Joanne Hichens, Arja Salafranca, Colleen Higgs, (Unknown), Tracey Farren and Yewande Omotoso.

Photo: BooksLive

All about short stories - Colleen Higgs

Last Thursday saw Arja Salafranca’s new collection of short stories The Thin Line launched along with Meg Vandermerwe’s collection, This place I call home. The vibey launch party took place at The Boekehuis in Jozi, hosted by Corina van der Spoel. It was also Modjaji’s first Jozi launch party. Joburg was pretty wild that night, with at least two other launches taking place, hectic traffic, road works, but nevertheless we drew a good crowd. Sue Grant-Marshall interviewed the two writers in a lively, engaging way, and we sold lots of books...Read more here