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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 |
Human Rights Day Colloquium
Date: 21 March, 2009
Venue: BAT Centre, Durban
This Human Rights Day colloquium will assess writing by women principally in South Africa. The dialogue is essentially among women of letters in South Africa and their counterparts mainly in the region.
As we celebrate Human Rights Day there are glaring areas of our national life that remain inadequately addressed – among them, the status of women in South african society since independence. A barometer by which to gauge whether there has been significant progress in promoting women’s rights is the extent to which there has been significant progress in writing by women. Writing by women indicates whether society is succeeding in “breaking the silence” and freeing spaces – the older writers are a particularly useful yardstick in this regard – and thus giving voice to womanist issues. What is the state of contemporary women writing in South Africa? What are their concerns and how well do writers reflect these concerns?
Related to giving voice to women writers continentally, a major project got underway in the early 1990s under the auspices of the Feminist Press. Titled “Women Writing Africa”, it sought to unveil African women writers since antiquity. The project leaned more towards literary history, however, than towards contemporary literary production (both criticism and creativity). What it did not address were strategies to influence the canon in educational establishments and to promote emerging women writers. What is the state of contemporary women writing in Southern Africa? What changes if any have occured in the canon? What strategies need to be engaged to effect desired changes? |
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Monday, 16 March 2009 |
South African writer Mandla Langa has scooped the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award in the Africa Region 2009 for "The Lost Colours of the Chameleon".
This was announced on Wednesday at The Time of the Writer Festival held in Durban.
Mr Langa and Uwen Akpan of Nigeria, who wone the Best First Book Award, in the Africa Region, for "Say You're One of Them", will now enter the final phase of the competition.
They will compete with the six finalists from Canada and the Caribbean, Europe and South Asia and South East Asia and the Pacific for the overall Best Book and Best First Book award.
The overall winners, chosen by an international panel of six judges coming together in New Zealand, will be announced on 16 May at the Auckland Writers' and Readers Festival (AWRF) in New Zealand.
Minister of Arts and Culture Pallo Jordan said South Africa's creative talents were sweeping the board in African film, literature and in music. "Given the awards already won this year, it was our expectation that the regional winner would also come from here," he said.
The minister also congratulated Mr Akpan adding that he also wish both authors further success in this competition.
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009 |
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The Centre for Creative Arts have partnered up with the INK (Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu) Area Based Management of the Ethekwini Municipality to provide free transport and tickets to the evening sessions of the 12th Time of the Writer festival taking place at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre in Durban from March 9 to 14, 2009. Sixty free tickets will be available daily for residents of the INK areas, and a bus will be available to transport people to and from the festival. Every evening for the duration of the festival a bus will depart from the INK area office in KwaMashu E-section (next to the police station and library) at 5:30pm sharp, and will drop people at the bus stops closest to their homes at the end of the evening. Tickets are on a “first come first served” basis, and must be reserved. To reserve a ticket contact either Brenda Toko on (031) 311 4600 or Tiny Mungwe on (031) 260 2506. |
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Thursday, 26 February 2009 |
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KZN Literary Tourism project leader Prof Lindy Stiebel has recently edited a book on Rider Haggard for Pickering & Chatto’s highly successful Lives of Victorian Literary Figures. This edition focuses on three hugely popular late-Victorian novelists. Joseph Conrad (1875–1924), Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) and Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) engaged with different aspects of the rapidly-expanding British Empire. Polish-born Conrad joined the merchant navy and his most famous work, Heart of Darkness (1902) draws on his own experiences in the Congo. Anglo-Indian Kipling’s poetry, short stories and children’s writing engage with the colonial project in India. Haggard’s gripping stories were inspired by African exploration and land-grab by European colonial powers at the end of the nineteenth century. Carefully selected extracts from biographies, memoirs, diaries, private letters and other ephemera reveal how these iconic writers were viewed by their contemporaries. |
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Thursday, 26 February 2009 |
Durban : 9 – 14 March 2009
The written word again takes centre stage as twenty writers from nine countries arrive in Durban for a stimulating week of words, books, ideas, and talk at the 12 th Time of the Writer International Writers Festival. The week-long festival, which takes place from 9 to 14 March, is coordinated annually by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal), and has developed an extensive programme that draws perhaps the most diverse literary audience in the country, cutting across race, class, and age. The festival features a customary strong South African and African presence this year, with a diverse gathering of novelists, short story writers, journalists, cartoonists, and political commentators, presenting their ideas in the public arena.
The eclectic lineup includes cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro, whose commitment to revealing truth in graphic form has made him an undeniable and utterly relevant South African icon. In conversation with Zapiro in a panel entitled “I Write And Draw What I Like” will be Max du Preez, one of the best known investigative journalists and political commentators in South Africa. Du Preez is also rapidly becoming well-known for his highly readable books on South African history. Other South African voices include poet, short story writer and novelist Marlene van Niekerk who, with her celebrated novels Agaat and Triomf and poetry collections Sprokkelster and Groenstaar, has established herself as one of the country's finest writers. Joining her in an enticing session, “What Are The Imperatives of South African Fiction?”, is well-known literary luminary Mandla Langa, who recently added to his impressive oeuvre with his allegorical novel The Lost Colours of the Chameleon. Also in attendance is Mtutuzeli Matshoba, a writer, playwright and screenwriter who is responsible for some of the most authentic and moving depictions of everyday life in South Africa. Noma Award winner for his magic realist collection of linked short stories, Beginnings of a Dream, Zachariah Rapola is also the author of two well regarded youth novels. |
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