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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
Two high profile writers – one South African born, Thando Mgqolozana and the other from Nigeria, Uwem Akpan will be visiting the Luthuli Museum and fielding questions from the public on the 11th March at 10am.
Their appearance is part of the five-day Centre for Creative Arts ‘Time of the Writer Festival’ that takes place annually at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Both writers are achievers in their own field. In his own words Uwem Akpan shares a glimpse of the small village in Ikot Akpan Eda in Ikot Ekpene Diocese in Nigeria. Uwem was born under a palm-wine tree and was inspired to write by the people who sit around his church to share the drink after Sunday Mass, by the Bible and by the humor and endurance of the poor.
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 |
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Entries invited from 1 March 2010 The South African Centre of International PEN (SA PEN) is pleased to announce the launch of the second in the series of PEN/STUDZINSKI Literary Awards. Entries for the award for original short stories in English are called for from 1 March 2010 and AFRICAN PENS, a compilation of the short-listed stories, will be published in mid-2011. Prizes totalling £10 000 will once again be donated by American philanthropist and global investment banker, John Studzinski. The first, second and third prizes will be £5 000, £3 000 and £2 000, respectively.
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 |
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International Writers Festival Durban: 9 13 March 2010 The written word will envelop Durban as writers from around South Africa and Africa arrive in Durban for a stimulating week of books, ideas and talk at the 13th Time of the Writer International Writers Festival (9-13 March). The festival, which is hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu- Natal), will feature a diverse gathering of novelists, short story writers, humour writers and political commentators. Within a precarious funding climate the Department of Arts and Culture has provided valued core support to make the production of this year's Time of the Writer possible and thereby help sustain this important platform which brings literature into the public domain. Time of the Writer will also host a tribute evening to the life, creativity and activism of the late Dennis Brutus as the culmination of a full-day colloquium organised by the Centre for Civil Society (UKZN). The writers at the festival include Nigerian Uwem Akpan, whose brilliantly-crafted and nuanced debut collection of stories, Say Youre One of Them, won last years Commonwealth Prize for Literature Best First Book Award. Akpans collection was also selected late last year by Oprah Winfreys Book Club, a prized honour in the publishing world. Joining him in the panel discussion, Why I Write What I Write, will be the Durban-born Imraan Coovadia. Coovadia has established himself over three provoking and intelligent novels, as one of the leading contemporary South African writers. Zakes Mda, a true giant of the South African literary landscape, makes a welcome return to the festival, having just published Black Diamond, which The Weekender called: a defiantly revealing novel about contemporary South Africa…sane and insane, evocative and hilarious… The prolific Mda is the author of South African classics such as The Whale Caller, The Madonna of Excelsior, The Heart of Redness and Ways of Dying amongst others. |
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Friday, 12 February 2010 |
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On Saturday the 5th December KZN Literary Tourism had a morning tea party in the beautiful grounds of Inanda Seminary to launch the INK (Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu) Writers Trail, which we developed with the eThekwini Municipality in 2009. The Creative INK Collective (a poetry and writers collective) performed some of their work and the school museum was open. The Seminary is one of the stops on the INK Writers Trail. 
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Monday, 08 February 2010 |
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We are currently developing a Midlands Writers trail and are in the process of selecting our writers. Some suggestions so far include: Imraan Coovadia, Wilbur Smith, John van de Ruit, Jenny Hobbs, Jonny Steinberg, John Conyngham, Kobus Moolman and Craig Higginson. Other possible writers, through their work on Nelson Mandela and reference to hiscapture site in the Midlands, include Lewis Nkosi and Fatima Meer. Have we left anyone out? |
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