Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
The Thin Line is long-listed for the 2012 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
The Lumina Foundation has released the long list for the 2012 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, and Arja Salafranca's short fiction collection, The Thin Line, has been nominated.
The short list will be announced in August. Read more here
Thursday, June 28, 2012
A Car is a Weapon
“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 get a learner’s.”
“You’re not serious,” I say, “you’re not really going to do it.”
She shrugs, smiles, in her strange accented English she says, “You know I need a licence. Without it I can’t get a better job. It’s easier this way, quicker. I could wait years otherwise. What if I don’t pass my test?”
Pauli swallows the last of her tea, looks at her watch, another half an hour remaining before her lunch hour is over. She’s talking on condition of anonymity...Read more here
Friday, June 22, 2012
Launch of Inheriting the Earth: Jill Nudelman Discusses Her Debut Novel
The
launch of Jill Nudelman’s Inheriting the Earth was
held on 18 June at The
Book Lounge in Cape Town. Adele Branch from UKZN Press welcomed the
audience and introduced Nudelman and Arja Salafranca, who joined her at the
launch to discuss the book.
The discussion started with Salafranca reading a précis of the
book which is about Rose, a girl who was orphaned at a young age and adopted.
She knows nothing about her biological family until her foster mother dies and
she inherits a fortune along with a box of artefacts that provide her with
clues to her ancestry... Read more here
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The Edge of Things and The Thin Line on display at the Cape Town Book Fair 2012
The Edge of Things: South African Short Fiction, was published by Dye Hard Press in 2011 and The Thin Line was published by Modjaji Books in 2010.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Celebrating Short Story Day at the Cape Town Book Fair
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