Showing posts with label The Thin Line. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Thin Line. Show all posts
Sunday, June 7, 2015

Review of The Thin Line

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Real people have complex lives. The ones who, from the outside, look as though they are enjoying idyllic stress-free existences are often...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

The Thin Line is long-listed for the 2012 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa

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The Lumina Foundation has released the long list for the 2012 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, and Arja Salafranca's shor...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

A Car is a Weapon

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“Eight thousand rand.”  She takes a sip of tea. “It’s eight thousand rand to get a driver’s licence. And it’s two thousand five hundred to...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

The Edge of Things and The Thin Line on display at the Cape Town Book Fair 2012

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The Edge of Things: South African Short Fiction , was published by Dye Hard Press in 2011 and T he Thin Line was published by Modjaji Bo...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Celebrating Short Story Day at the Cape Town Book Fair

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Rachel Zadok (author of Gem Squash Tokoloshe and organiser of Short Story Day Africa ) and Colleen Higgs (author of the short...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

The Thin Line - Dividing line in human behaviour

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A review of  The Thin Line,  by Dries Blunt  This book combines excellent writing skill, an interesting choice of subject and a fine displa...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The Book Review: An Essential Map by Phakama Mbonambi

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At the moment South Africa is experiencing a boom in book publishing. New writers are constantly minted and the stories they tell, whether i...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

The Thin Line on Peony Moon

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The stories in The Thin Line hook the reader from the first one, and reel you in on that thin line. You will be haunted by the carefully dr...
Monday, May 16, 2011

The Edge of Things at the Franschoek Literary Festival

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The Edge of Things , published by Dye Hard Press, together with The Thin Line by Arja Salafranca, published by Modjaji Books, for sale at ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Pillowtalk:Author Arja Salafranca

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What are you reading? I'm in the middle of two books of short stories, The Best American Short Stories 2010 , edited by Richard Russo ...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Review of The Thin Line - Joan Hambidge in Die Burger

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The Thin Line is ’n versameling kortverhale wat ’n mens eenvoudig nie kan neersit nie. Arja Salafranca ondersoek die subtiele verbintenisse...
Monday, November 1, 2010

Writing in pictures brings daily life into crisp focus - Tanya Farber

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Local award-winning writer Arja Salafranca has been brewing a collection of short stories over the years, and recently it came together in i...
Saturday, September 18, 2010

Review of The Thin Line in Wordsetc

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At the Bed Book of Short Stories launch at Exclusive Books, Centurion

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At the Bed Book of Short Stories launch at Exclusive Books, Centurion

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Writers Talk Short Fiction with Ben Williams at the Cape Town Book Fair

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Ben Williams, editor of BOOK SA, led a panel discussion at the Cape Town Book Fair about the reading and writing of short stories between lo...
Monday, August 2, 2010

The Thin Line on display at Modjaji Books' stand at the Cape Town Book Fair 2010

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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Interview with Arja Salafranca at The Dye Hard Interviews

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Dye Hard: Short fiction has been referred to as a sort of poor relation of the novel. What are your thoughts on that, and why do you prefer ...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

Review of Speaking for the Generations: an anthology of contemporary African short stories

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Edited by Dike Okoro, this anthology aims to represent the best of contemporary African short stories written in English. Familiar names suc...
Sunday, June 6, 2010

Kate Turkington on The Thin Line

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Arja Salafranca is one of South Africa’s best up-and-coming young writers. She has twice won the Sanlam Literary Award, and her new book of ...