The 2016 Franschhoek Literary Festival is around the corner. And we’re delighted that a number of new and more established Modjaji authors are taking part. We have three writers who live abroad participating, they are Charlotte Otter (Karkloof Blue) coming from Heidelberg in Germany, Isobel Dixon (Bearings) from London and Eliza Kentridge (Signs for an Exhibition) from Wivenhoe in the UK.
Check out the programme and book your tickets soon, you don’t want to be disappointed.
Karin Schimke, award-winning poet and books editor (Bare & Breaking) is chairing a number of sessions.
Sindiwe Magona is one of the celebrities of the festival, and will be specially honoured this year. We published her poetry collection, Please Take Photographs. Wendy Woodward, poet and English Literature academic (The Saving Bannister), will be there.
Poet and performer, Khadija Heeger (Beyond the Delivery Room) is also on the programme.
Beverly Rycroft, poet and novelist, is also on the programme (missing).
And the last Modjaji writer on the programme is Jolyn Phillips, whose wonderful new book, a collection of short stories, which we have heard has made it onto the Exclusive Books’ Homebru promotion, Tjieng Tjang Tjerries and other stories is on a panel on Sunday at 1.00 with Deon Meyer, Rahla Xenopolous, chaired by Darrel Bristow Bovey.
There are two award announcements on the weekend of the Franschhoek Lit Fest. They are both on Saturday evening. The first is the Ingrid Jonker, two of our Ingrid Jonker past winners are on the festival programme, Karin Schimke and Beverly Rycroft. We have a couple of poets who are contenders for this year’s award: Elisa Galgut (The Attribute of Poetry) and Christine Coates (Homegrown).
And for this year’s Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize long list, we have Fiona Snyckers’ Now Following You. The shortlist of five will be announced on Saturday night during the FLF.
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- Tjieng Tjang Tjerries and other stories by Jolyn Phillips
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EAN: 9781928215172
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- Karkloof Blue by Charlotte Otter
EAN: 9781928215059
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- Signs for an Exhibition by Eliza Kentridge
EAN: 9781920590796
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- Please, Take Photographs by Sindiwe Magona
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EAN: 9780980272956
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- Bearings by Isobel Dixon
EAN: 9781928215295
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- Missing: poems by Beverly Rycroft by Beverly Rycroft
EAN: 9781920397067
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- Beyond the Delivery Room by Khadija Tracey Heeger
EAN: 9781920397364
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- Bare and Breaking: poems by Karin Schimke
EAN: 9781920397975
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- A Saving Bannister by Wendy Woodward
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EAN: 9781920590802
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- Now Following You by Fiona Snyckers
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EAN: 9781928215066
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- Homegrown by Christine Coates
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EAN: 9781920590819
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- The Attribute of Poetry by Elisa Galgut
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EAN: 9781928215028
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