Tag: Angela Makholwa
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The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2018 longlist announced
The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2018 longlist for the Barry Rouge Fiction Prize was announced on April 1, 2018. In 1989, South African newspaper The Sunday Times started a new literary prize they called The Sunday Times Literary Prize. We aren’t sure if they were seeing what was happening as their country was in the…
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African writers threaten City of Durban with lawsuit
Professionals in the literary industry are up in arms against the City of Durban for lack of payment for the ARTiculate Africa festival 2017. The group of mainly aggrieved writers come from all off the continent. In November 2016, the ARTiculate Africa literary festival was hosted in Durban, South Africa as part of the Essence…
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Abantu Book Festival 2016 announces confirmed guests
The Abantu Festival 2016 set for 06 – 10 December in Soweto, South Africa have announced some of their guests and the lineup is epic. The Abantu Book Festival with Thando Mgqolozana as director and Panashe Chigumadzi as curator is organised under the theme, Our Stories. The new festival celebrates African stories through written and…
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A review of Angela Makholwa’s Black Widow Society
Book: Black Widow Society Author: Angela MakholwaPublisher: Pan MacmillanYear of Publication: 2013Number of pages: 278Buy your own copy of Black Widow Society The last book I read by South African writer Angela Makholwa was The Thirtieth Candle and I nearly missed out on a major world carnival as I sat on a beach and read…
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How Angela Makholwa nearly derailed my Seychelles Carnival plans
Book: The Thirtieth CandleAuthor: Angela MakholwaPublisher: Pan MacmillanGenre: Fiction I recently got an opportunity to visit one of the most beautiful places on the planet; The Island archipelago that is the Seychelles Islands where I got to cover the International Carnival in that town. It was a beautiful experience I would not want to exchange…