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Author Interview: Ashti Juggath – Peaches And Smeets, Or Beyond The Single Story

Author Interview: Ashti Juggath – Peaches And Smeets, Or Beyond The Single Story

Aug 9, 2024 | ARTicle

  By ARJA SALAFRANCA   Ashti Juggath is the author of Peaches And Smeets, in which protagonist Smita is caught between the beloved traditions of India and life in a quickly modernising South Africa.   Writing a book is a huge commitment. What are the...
Author Interview: Craig Higginson – The Book Of Gifts, Or Excited By Exchange

Author Interview: Craig Higginson – The Book Of Gifts, Or Excited By Exchange

Jul 25, 2021 | ARTicle

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By ARJA SALAFRANCA Craig Higginson’s latest novel, The Book of Gifts, is a beguiling read, steeped in the rhythmic patterns and sweeps of the tides and movements of water. It is also a novel that plumbs the...
Book Reviews: Talk While Awake, Or Keep Digging Through Short Stories

Book Reviews: Talk While Awake, Or Keep Digging Through Short Stories

Dec 13, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By ARJA SALAFRANCA   Talk Of The Town by Fred Khumalo Awake Asleep Awake by Jo-Ann Bekker If You Keep Digging by Keletso Mopai   Sometimes regarded as the Cinderella of the literary world, short...
Book Review: The Afrikaner – Filled By Emptiness, Or Looking At The Present From The Past

Book Review: The Afrikaner – Filled By Emptiness, Or Looking At The Present From The Past

Oct 21, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By ARJA SALAFRANCA   The Afrikaner by Arianna Dagnino   It’s always interesting to see ourselves, as South Africans, reflected through another’s gaze as author Arianna Dagnino does in The Afrikaner....
Book Review: The Swimming Lesson By Kobus Moolman – Disabled By Dysfunction, Or Virtuosic Vignettes

Book Review: The Swimming Lesson By Kobus Moolman – Disabled By Dysfunction, Or Virtuosic Vignettes

Mar 27, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By ARJA SALAFRANCA   The Swimming Lesson And Other Stories by Kobus Moolman   Kobus Moolman, known for his award-winning poetry, has released his debut volume of short fiction, The Swimming Lesson...

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Bruce Dennill is a BASA/National Arts Festival Arts Writing Awards Silvear Award winner (Opinion and Features), a South African Music Awards judge and a recording artist. His first play, the pocket musical Actress,for which he wrote the music and lyrics and co-wrote the script, was the recipient of a Broadway World South Africa Award for Best New Play Or Musical and a Naledi Theatre Award for Best Lead Actress In A Musical (Talia Kodesh).
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