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Pan Macmillan Authors at the Franschhoek Literary Festival (17 – 19 May)

by Thando on Apr 25th, 2013

The 2013 Franschhoek Literary Festival takes place from 17 to 19 May. Pan Macmillan authors to look forward to at the festival include Duncan Brown, Jo-Anne Richards, Moeletsi Mbeki, Patricia Glyn, Ron Irwin, Tony Leon, Mtutuzeli Nyoka, Nik Rabinowitz, Leonie Joubert, Eusebius McKaiser, Cat Hellisen and international author Anthony Horowitz.

The Imagined ChildAdvocates for ChangeThe Accidental AmbassadorA Hill of FoolsSouth Africa: A Long Walk to a Free Ride

The Hungry SeasonWhat Dawid KnewScorpia RisingFlat Water TuesdayA Bantu in My BathroomWhen the Sea is Rising Red


Friday 17 May

All About Writing workshop with Jo-Anne Richards & Fred de Vries
10 AM – 12:30 PM (Library) (double session till 12.30, R120)
A good story-teller can make us care about real-world issues, or about imagined people. Novelist Jo-Anne Richards and non-fiction writer Fred de Vries discuss how to get a story going, maintain the momentum and come to a dramatic climax and a satisfying resolution.

Rising eighteen
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (New High School Hall)
Samantha Page, editor of From Me to Me, is joined by comedian and author Nik Rabinowitz (South Africa: a long walk to a free ride), writer and writing mentor Osiame Molefe, author Fiona Snyckers (the Trinity series) and high school teacher Athambile Masola (a contributor to My First Time) to talk about strategies for surviving the final years at school.

The Power of Horowitz
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (School Hall)
Michele Magwood introduces multi-talented Anthony Horowitz, best known for his Alex Rider series and The Power of Five supernatural thrillers, who will talk about his passion for creating spellbinding stories for devoted young fans and enticing new readers.

Dystopia in science fiction
Five top s.f. authors dissect the futures they predict: with Sarah Lotz (The Mall), Lauren Beukes (The Shining Girls), Cat Hellisen (When the Sea is Rising Red), Karen Jayes (For the Mercy of Water) and Rachel Zadok (Sister-Sister).

Eastern Cape blues
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (Council Chamber)
Anchien Troskie (Dis ek, Anna and Die Staat Teen Anna Bruwer), Ken Barris (Life Underwater) and Marguerite Poland (Taken Captive by Birds) in conversation with Jo-Anne Richards (The Imagined Child).

Patricia Glyn …
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (Screening Room)
… presents her riveting TEDx talk about what she learnt on her journey into the Kalahari with the late Khomani San leader, Dawid Kruiper, and his family.

flat water tuesday
4 PM – 5 PM (art in the yard gallery)
John Maytham talks to UCT academic and literary agent Ron Irwin about his new novel.

Fifty shades of funny
4 PM – 5 PM (New High School Hall)
The combination of Sunday Times columnist Ndumiso Ngcobo and stand-up comedians Marianne Thamm and Nik Rabinowitz will have this audience laughing all the way home.

Feeding Africa
4 PM – 5 PM (Council Chamber)
Leonie Joubert discusses her important and timely book The Hungry Season: Feeding Southern Africa’s Cities with sustainable development specialist Michelle Matthews.

Sunday Times dinner at Reuben’s
7:30 PM (Reuben’s)
Join Sunday Times for a literary evening at Reuben’s Restaurant & Bar: Antony Beevor, Anthony Horowitz and A D Miller in discussion with Tymon Smith. Tickets: R550 each for four courses with a welcome drink of Porcupine Ridge wine. To book, email goodtimes@sundaytimes.co.za


Saturday 18 May

How to fix South Africa
1 PM – 2 PM (School Hall)
This Sunday Times book is a collection of articles written by leading South Africans who suggest solutions. Dennis Davis talks possibilities with Moeletsi Mbeki, Hlumelo Biko and the former editor who commissioned them, Ray Hartley.

Bestsellers
1 PM – 2 PM (Church Hall)
World bestsellers Kate Mosse (the Languedoc Trilogy, of which Labyrinth was the first) and Anthony Horowitz, polymath author of over 35 books as well as many TV and movie scripts, plays and journalism, talk to Jenny Crwys-Williams.

New voices
1 PM – 2 PM (Screening Room)
Sue Grant-Marshall of Radio Today talks to crime novelist Amanda Coetzee and medical specialist Mtutuzeli Nyoka (A Hill of Fools).

Ambassadors
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (School Hall)
Our country’s representatives come from both sides of the political divide. Broadcaster Mike Wills talks diplomacy with Melanie Verwoerd, former ambassador to Ireland (The Verwoerd who Toyi-Toyied) and Tony Leon who took on Argentina (The Accidental Ambassador).

What do publishers want?
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (Church Hall)
Random House Struik publisher Steve Connolly quizzes Melinda Ferguson (M F Books, a Jacana imprint with a focus on black women’s stories), Debra Primo (UKZN Press) and American Ron Irwin, a UCT academic who teaches creative writing and doubles as a literary agent.

Don’t touch me on my dog
4 PM – 5 PM (School Hall)
How do we grow beyond the racism that still blights our country? Francis Wilson probes for answers from political analyst Aubrey Matshiqi, Eusebius McKaiser and Zapiro, the cartoonist who can make us cringe with a few pen strokes.

A sense of place
4 PM – 5 PM (Church Hall)
Christopher Hope engages with three authors whose recent novels have a strong sense of place: Ken Barris on growing up in PE, Alistair Morgan who sets The Land Within on a former family farm in the Karoo, and Ron Irwin who writes about an obsession with rowing in an American boys’ school.

Haunted by waters
4 PM – 5 PM (Hospice Hall)
A treat for trout fishermen: John Maytham talks to Duncan Brown (Are Trout South African?) with doyen Tom Sutcliffe in attendance.

Author to author
4 PM – 5 PM (Screening Room)
Jo-Anne Richards in conversation with Rachel Zadok.

Patricia Glyn …
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM (Screening Room)
… presents her riveting TEDx talk about what she learnt on her journey into the Kalahari with the late Khomani San leader, Dawid Kruiper, and his family.


Sunday 19 May

What’s going on in the ANC?
10 AM – 11 AM (School Hall)
Wouldn’t we all like to know? Moeletsi Mbeki and journalist Carol Paton take us behind the scenes, chaired by UCT’s Richard Calland.

A Song of Africa
10 AM – 11 AM (Council Chamber)
Izak Dinesen wrote, “If I have a song of Africa, does Africa have a song of me?” Marguerite Poland (Taken Captive by Birds) and Patricia Glyn (What Dawid Knew) tussle with the question.

Liberal: fine ideal or dirty word?
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (School Hall)
Expect a fiery debate as Tony Leon and Eusebius McKaiser square up to each other again with Dennis Davis in the chair.

Anthony Horowitz
1 PM – 2 PM (Church Hall)
… in conversation with John Maytham.

Vrede
2:30 PN – 3:30 PM (Hospice Hall)
Jo-Anne Richards and Fred de Vries bought a weekend retreat which transformed gradually from utopia to dystopia. It became a strong thread through both their recent works – one fiction, the other non-fiction. Here they tease out their different treatments of a dorp which encapsulates many of South Africa’s issues.

Patricia Glyn …
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (Screening Room)
… presents her riveting TEDx talk about what she learnt on her journey into the Kalahari with the late Khomani San leader, Dawid Kruiper, and his family.

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Read Cat Hellisen’s Hobverse Short Story “Heirloom Dreams”

by Thando on Feb 7th, 2013

When the Sea is Rising RedCat Hellisen has made available on Goodreads an early short story set in Hobverse, which is also the setting for her debut novel, When the Sea is Rising Red. “Heirloom Dreams” is “a love story in reverse” and takes place nine years before the events in her novel. Read the story:

This is a really old story, which I’m putting up now because I promised Tammy February.

It’s Hobverse, set about nine years before When the Sea is Rising Red, and featuring characters no-one will know except those un/lucky few who get to beta all my other Hobverse novels.

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Catch Nik Rabinowitz in “You Can’t be Serious” at Suidoosterfees 2013

by Thando on Jan 28th, 2013

South Africa: A Long Walk to a Free RideThe world’s foremost “Xhosa-speaking Jewish comedian”, Nik Rabinowitz, will be performing during this year’s Suidoosterfees.

Rabinowitz and Gillian Breslin recently co-wrote South Africa: a Long Walk to a Free Ride in which they explain what the main problem with South African history is – that no-one can agree on it.

Catch Rabinowitz in his comedy show “You Can’t be Serious” on the 2nd of February at the kykNET Theatre.

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Cat Hellisen Reveals the Inspiration for the City of Pelimburg in When the Sea is Rising Red

by Thando on Jan 15th, 2013

When the Sea is Rising RedTammy February asked Cat Hellisen to write a guest post about the inspiration for the setting of her book When the Sea is Rising Red for her blog, The Book Fairy’s Haven.

Hellisen says that she wrote the book as a way to reconnect with Cape Town, the city where she was born, while living in Johannesburg. She describes Cape Town as being infused into the fictional Pelimburg , which is “a city of rain and mist and spray”.

Today I’m really excited to welcome Cat Hellisen, author of YA fantasy novel When the Sea is Rising Red, to my blog today.

The reason I’m so delighted to have her featured on my blog today is because not only is Cat and incredibly gifted author whose novel just happens to be one of my top reads of 2012, but also because the settings of her novel is, on so many levels, so very recognisable to me.

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Excerpt from Shaka Sisulu’s The Youngsters Series Book, Becoming

by Thando on Jan 14th, 2013

BecomingOn his website, Shaka Sisulu has shared an excerpt from his book, Becoming, which is part of The Youngsters Series.

In this extract, Sisulu recalls a trip he went on to Congo-Brazzaville when he was eight, where he and his peers were treated like royalty. Soon the children started to squabble over the attention they were receiving, which taught him “that people are people – flawed, and dangerous when endowed with too much power”.

This experience formed his views on leadership: that it consists of many people doing their best and that it shouldn’t be left to a select few.

I visited Congo-Brazzaville when I was eight-year-old. It was an intriguing experience. I was with a group of pioneers all my peers. Despite our tender ages we were considered the first ‘South African delegation’ they had ever hosted.

We were treated like royalty, ferried around the city, with newsmen following us and putting our pictures in the newspapers and on the evening news, and were guests at the one of the seven presidential palaces. We stayed in plush hotels and dined at places I could tell the adults were impressed by. My clothes were too small for me by the time I went back home a month or so later.

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Absentee Black Fathers: Excerpt from In My Arrogant Opinion by Khaya Dlanga

by Thando on Jan 10th, 2013

In My Arrogant OpinionIn an extract he published on his blog, from the Youngsters series book, In My Arrogant Opinion, Khaya Dlanga reflects on what being a child raised by a single mother, and not having a father as a role model or one that could help raise him, feels like.

His own father died when he was very young, and he’s often thought about how so many black children basically go without having a father in their lives. Dlanga says that the percentage of young women raising children on their own has risen significantly and that one of his greatest fears “is being a bad husband or a bad father”. We previously published another excerpt from In My Arrogant Opinion.

Many young black South Africans carry around bitterness towards their fathers for a variety of reasons. One of the major reasons is because their fathers have been fathers in name only, and not in actions. The only thing they seem expert in is making babies – and then abandoning them. I have heard many people simply call their fathers sperm donors. I have heard people refer to their fathers as ‘that thing’. The great bitterness towards fathers has less to do with hate than deep-seated disappointment. It is because they know what fathers are supposed to do. When they don’t do what they are meant to, bitterness sets in. But this does not mean that they hate their fathers. A myriad of contradictory feelings settle upon many children directed at their fathers.

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Khaya Dlanga and Eusebius McKaiser Among Top Ten South Africans to Follow on Twitter

by Thando on Dec 18th, 2012

In My Arrogant OpinionA Bantu in My BathroomKhaya Dlanga, author of In My Arrogant Opinion, and Eusebius McKaiser, author of A Bantu in My Bathroom, have been included in Memeburn’s list of “10 South Africans worth following on Twitter”. Tony Seifart says that Dlanga is a “firm favourite” and McKaiser “brings in great topics on Twitter”.

So you may have just joined this thing called Twitter, or you’ve become completely bored with your friends talking about their pets and kids. Looking for some interesting people to talk to on Twitter?

We’ve compiled a list of 10 top South African personalities you should be following on Twitter, and why we think they’re worth it:

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Win a Hamper of The Youngsters Series Books from Pan Macmillan

by Thando on Nov 13th, 2012

Pan Macmillan is running a competition in which a lucky reader gets to win a hamper of the Youngsters books. The books, by South African youth personalities Anele Mdoda, Khaya Dlanga, Nik Rabinowitz, Danny K and Shaka Sisulu, can be won by adding a comment on the Pan Macmillan Facebook page and telling them which book you’d like to read the most. You can also tweet them your preference at @PanMacmillanSA.

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Khaya Dlanga Examines Jacob Zuma’s Speech at the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture

by Thando on Sep 14th, 2012

In My Arrogant OpinionIn an opinion piece for the Mail & Guardian, Khaya Dlanga compares Jacob Zuma’s speech at this year’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture to a hastily written high school oral report:

“Good morning class!” shouts the teacher. The pupils stand up nervously and greet her in unison: “Good morrrrning, Miss!” She instructs them to sit down and get ready, because today is the day – the day of the oral about Nelson Mandela.

Their chairs scratch the floor as they sit down, and papers rustle as pupils take a last-minute look at their notes before they have to stand up and talk about the revered South African icon.

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Pan Macmillan Authors at the 2012 Open Book Festival (20 – 24 September)

by Thando on Sep 13th, 2012
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Pan Macmillan will be participating in this year’s Open Book Festival, which takes place from 20-24 September in Cape Town’s CBD. Pan Macmillan authors taking part include Alan Hollinghurst, Cat Hellisen, Craig Higginson, Emily Gravett, Eusebius McKaiser, Ifeanyi Ajaegbo, Marlene van der Westhuizen, Niki Daly and Steven Boykey Sidley.

Thursday 20 September, 2012

BOOK CLUB MORNING 1

Venue: The Book Lounge
Time: 10.00 – 11.00
Price: Free Event

Lola Shoneyin, Alan Hollinghurst and Patrick Flanery chat about their writing and give you a glimpse of how it’s done. Chaired by Megan Hitchin.

Friday 21 September, 2012

ALAN HOLLINGHURST: THE STRANGER’S CHILD

Venue: The Fugard Theatre
Time: 14.00 – 15.00
Price: R40

Alan Hollinghurst talks to Loftus Marais about The Stranger’s Child

TALKING FRENCH FOOD – JOANNE HARRIS AND MARLENE VAN DER WESTHUIZEN

Venue: Fugard First
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
Price: R30

Joanne Harris and Marlene van der Westhuizen talk to each other about the French food they love and the books that resulted from that.

Saturday 22 September, 2012

CAINE PRIZE 2012

Venue: The Fugard Theatre
Time: 12.00 – 13.30
Price: Free Event

CO/MIX THE ART OF CHILDREN’S BOOK ILLUSTRATION

Venue: The Bank
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Price: Free Event

Emily Gravett, Chris Venter and Alex Latimer talk to Niki Daly about the challenges of the industry.

ALAN HOLLINGHURST AND DAMON GALGUT

Venue: The Fugard Theatre
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
Price: R40

Alan Hollingurst and Damon Galgut discuss their work with Eusebius Mckaiser.

CRAIG HIGGINSON – THE LANDSCAPE PAINTER

Venue: Fugard Studio
Time: 14.00 – 15.00
Price: R30

Craig Higginson, author of The Landscape Painter, talks to Karina Brink about his novel.

SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE 2

Venue: The Book Lounge
Time: 15.00 – 16.00
Price: Free Event

Dawn Garisch, Deon-Simphiwe Skade and Steven Boykey Sidley speak to Liesl Jobson about their work.

THE LIVES OF WRITERS

Venue: Fugard Studio
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
Price: R30

Alan Hollinghurst, Kiran Desai and Lionel Shriver discuss the process behind their books with Nancy Richards.

EUSEBIUS MCKAISER: A BANTU IN MY BATHROOM – LAUNCH

Venue: Fugard Ground
Time: 20.00 – 21.00
Price: R30

Eusebius McKaiser, author of A Bantu in my Bathroom, talks to Rebecca Davis about the book.

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