Tag: Jacana Media
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Kopano Matlwa stays winning with “Evening Primrose.”
Kopano Matlwa’s latest novel is available in the US under the name Evening Primrose with Quercus as the publisher. The book was first published as Period Pain by Jacana Media, South Africa in 2016. Kopano Matlwa burst onto the South African literary scene in 2009 with the debut novel Coconut which tells the story of…
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Sunday Times Literary Awards 2016 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the Sunday Times Literary Awards 2016 were announced over the weekend. There are two awards available to the writers in the awards; the nonfiction category is called the Alan Patton Award while the fiction category is called the Barry Ronge Prize. Both prizes named after famous South African white men. The Alan…
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Sunday Times Literature Prize 2015 shortlists out
The Sunday Times Literary Awards are one of the richest prizes for writers on the continent with winners in the two categories going home with R100 000. The awards are in two categories; the fiction prize is called the Barry Ronge Award and the nonfiction category is called the Alan Paton Award. The award is…
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Zukiswa Wanner reviews A Renegade Called Simphiwe by Pumla Dineo Gqola
Book: A Renegade Called SimphiweAuthor: Pumla Dineo GqolaPublisher: Jacana MediaNumber of pages: 180Year of Publication: 2013 Simphiwe Dana is perhaps one of the better known musicians from South Africa under 40. Often compared to musicians like Ringo Madlingozi and the late Miriam Makeba, the young artist has won many awards with her three albums as…
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A review of Siphiwo Mahala’s African Delights
Book: African Delights Author: Siphiwo Mahala Publisher: Jacana Media Year of publication: 2011 Number of pages: 243 Genre: Short Story Number of stories: 12 Jacana Media-published African Delights is the second book from Pretoria-based South African writer Siphiwo Mahala. His first was the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press 2007 book When a Man Cries about…
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A review of Unimportance by Thando Mgqolozana
Book: Unimportance Author: Thando Mgqolozana Publisher: Jacana Media Year of publication: 2014 Number of pages: 146 South African writer Thando Mgqolozana is well known for his two previous titles A Man Is Not A Man and Hear Me Alone. The first deals with a circumcision of a young man gone bad while the latter is…