Elsa (Elsa) Antoinette Murray Joubert was the author of several (travel) books that concern themselves with life in Africa, the relationships between people and the conflicts between cultures.
Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
Dame Rose Tremain is an acclaimed English novelist and short story writer, celebrated for her distinctive approach to historical fiction and her focus on characters who exist on the margins of society…
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bac…
I was born in Dublin, Ireland, and studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. In 2015, I was awarded an Honorary Doctorate o…
Krog grew up on a farm, attending primary and secondary school in Kroonstad. In 1973 she earned a BA (Hons) degree in English from the University of the Orange Free State, and an MA in Afrikaans from …
Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarr…
Deon Meyer was born in the South African town of Paarl in the winelands of the Western Cape in 1958, and grew up in Klerksdorp, in the gold mining region of Northwest Province.
Paul Lynch is the internationally-acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels: PROPHET SONG, BEYOND THE SEA, GRACE, THE BLACK SNOW and RED SKY IN MORNING, and the winner of the Kerry Group Irish No…
Chris Karsten is op 9 November 1947 op Morgenzon in Mpumalanga gebore. Hy matrikuleer aan die Hoërskool Hoogenhout op Bethal en behaal ’n BA-graad met Afrikaans-Nederlands en Sielkunde aan die Univers…
Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Intimacies. One of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, it was longlisted for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Joy…
Irma Venter is a thriller writer. She writes books about strong women, interesting men and that fascinating space between right and wrong. Her first book, Skoenlapper, was published in 2012, in Afrika…
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which ar…
Anya Niewierra is de schrijfster van de thrillers Vrij uitzicht en Het Dossier. Ze woont, werkt, schildert en schrijft in Zuid-Limburg en in de Pyreneeën. Zowel haar jeugdjaren binnen de serene abdijm…
Francois Smith doseer Afrikaanse letterkunde en kreatiewe skryfkuns aan die Universiteit van die Vrystaat. Sy debuutroman, Kamphoer (2014), is met die ATKV-Prosaprys en die Sala vir Beste Debuutwerk b…
Max Porter’s first novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers won the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Europese Literatuurprijs and …
Johannes de Villiers is ’n skrywer en meditasie-instrukteur. Hy bedryf ’n jogaskool in Bloemfontein. Hy lei landwyd slypskole en naweekkursusse oor meditasie en mindfulness. Johannes was jare lank joe…
Azille Coetzee is a postdoctoral researcher in gender and decolonisation at the Centre for Historical Trauma and Transformation, Stellenbosch University. She has a PhD in philosophy from the Free Univ…
