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johannesburgreviewofbooks.com | Jennifer Malec
Finuala Dowling • Hassana Moosa • Shayera Dark • Wamuwi Mbao • Sean Jacobs • Seitlhamo Thabo Motsapi • Sihle Ntuli • Megan Ross • Abigail George • Kris Van der Bijl • Victor Dlamini • Jennifer Malec • William Kentridge • Nigel C Gibson • Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani • Yanjanani L Banda • Onke Mazibuko • Ellah Wakatama • Joel Cabrita • Christa Kuljian • Sanya Osha • Lesego Linda Plank • Jessie Cooper Welcome to the first issue of Volume 9 of The Johannesburg Review of Books! In this issue, Finuala...
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1 month ago | 
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com | Jennifer Malec
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1 month ago | 
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com | Jennifer Malec
The Lions’ Den by Iris Mwanza is a historical thriller that reaches into many different corners of its characters’ lives, writes The JRB Editor Jennifer Malec. The Lion’s DenIris MwanzaCanongate, 2024The Lion’s Den, the debut novel by Zambian–American author Iris Mwanza, is described as a legal thriller, and like the best of its genre, it reaches into many different corners of its characters’ lives.
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1 month ago | 
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com | Abigail George
The JRB presents previously unpublished poetry by Abigail George. ~~~In a lonely city searching for Walt Whitman and Chris Abani(for Virgil)There are things I don’t tell anyone. I blamed the sunlight Secrets I keep to myselfI was young once Ezra Pound’s Alba tell the truth.
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1 month ago | 
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com | Victor Dlamini
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com | Jennifer Malec
Gabrielle Mudiwa has won the first ever Achmat Dangor Literary Prize, an award dedicated to nurturing young, previously disadvantaged writers working in all genres. The award was set up to enable a talented young writer to pursue an MA in Creative Writing at Wits, ensuring that the legacy of Achmat Dangor, the celebrated late South African writer and activist, endures.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com | Jennifer Malec
British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital. She receives £50,000 (about R1.15 million) prize money, and was presented with her trophy by Paul Lynch, last year’s winner, at a ceremony in London, UK. ‘I was not expecting that,’ Harvey said in her acceptance speech. ‘We were told that we weren’t allowed to swear in our speech, so there goes my speech. It was just one swear word 150 times. Gosh. I have no idea how to deal with this.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com | Jennifer Malec
The winners of the 2024 South African Literary Awards (the SALAs) have been announced. The SALAs are awarded annually by the wRite Associates and the Department of Arts and Culture to celebrate literary excellence in all South African languages. South African writers, translators and other literary practitioners across sixteen categories were honoured at a ceremony held at the Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History in Pretoria on 7 November, International African Writers Day.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com | Jennifer Malec
The winners of the 2024 Sunday Times Literary Awards have been announced. Jonny Steinberg won the Sunday Times Non-fiction Award for Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage, and Andrew Brown was awarded the Sunday Times Fiction Prize for The Bitterness of Olives. The winners were announced at The Melrose Gallery in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg. The awards celebrate ‘the best of South African non-fiction and fiction’ from the previous year.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com | Percy Zvomuya
Percy Zvomuya draws on Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan valuable new book Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War in a reading of the modern history of conflict in the Horn of Africa. Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray WarMartin Plaut and Sarah VaughanHurst Publishers, 2023ISince 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s attempts to make a radical break with his country’s immediate past has seen reforms touching on everything—the aesthetic, ideological, political, even the environmental.