Tag: Pumla Dineo Gqola

  • Pumla Dineo Gqola wins Canex Prize for Publishing in Africa 2024

    Pumla Dineo Gqola wins Canex Prize for Publishing in Africa 2024

    Female Fear Factory written by Pumla Dineo Gqola and published by Cassava Republic won the inaugural Canex Prize for Publishing in Africa in Algiers, Algeria on Friday, October 18, 2024. The CANEX Weekend with the whole artistic compendium on the continent starring was hosted at the capital city of Algeria over the weekend. The writing…

  • Book digest: Michèle Rakotoson, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Anni Domingo, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond.

    Book digest: Michèle Rakotoson, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Anni Domingo, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond.

    We wrap up book news for our readers in our first Book Digest segment for 2022 with books from Michèle Rakotoson, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Anni Domingo, and Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. Ambatomanga, Le silence et la douleur by Michèle Rakotoson Publisher: Atelier des nomadesPublication Date: May 5, 2022Genre: FictionLanguage: FrenchWhere to find it: Forthcoming. Michèle Rakotoson…

  • Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 guest list unveiled.

    Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 guest list unveiled.

    The guest list for Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 has been unveiled. The festival curated by writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga runs from April 4-7, 2019. In 2018, writers from across Africa and its diaspora converged on Berlin for the African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the headliner. The festival organised by InterKontinental and…

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Abantu Book Festival 2018.

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Abantu Book Festival 2018.

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set to feature at the Abantu Book Festival 2018 on Friday, December 7. The Nigerian author will be in conversation with Prof Pumla Dineo Gqola at the Eyethu Lifestyle Centre, Soweto, Azania. The Abantu Book Festival was founded to build a space for black South African readers and writers to interact.…

  • Abantu Book Festival 2018 artist line up unveiled.

    Abantu Book Festival 2018 artist line up unveiled.

    The Abantu Book Festival 2018 artist line up was announced on the event’s social media platforms on October 23, 2018. The festival now in its third year is set for Soweto, South Africa from December 6-9, 2018. The Abantu Book Festival was founded in 2016 to build a space for black South African readers and…

  • Open Book Festival 2017 kicks off in Cape Town, South Africa

    Open Book Festival 2017 kicks off in Cape Town, South Africa

    The Open Book Festival 2017 kicked off today in Cape Town, South Africa. The festival will run from September 6-10, 2017. The Open Book Festival is an annual literary festival held in Cape Town, South Africa with a focus on South African literature in an international context. The event, first held in 2011, includes over…

  • Sunday Times Literary Awards 2016 shortlists announced

    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…

  • South African Book Fair 2015 is here

    South African Book Fair 2015 is here

    The South African Book Fair 2015 will be happening from tomorrow 31st July until August 2nd at the Turbine Hall, Newtown, Johannesburg. The theme for this year’s fair is #DiscoverYourBookself as the organisers believe that the books we read shape us and they are certain you’ll find your ‘bookshelf’ here. So what will the plan…

  • Zukiswa Wanner reviews A Renegade Called Simphiwe by Pumla Dineo Gqola

    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…