Tag: Shafinaaz Hassim
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Shafinaaz Hassim to curate Time of The Writer 2025
Shafinaaz Hassim is the curator of the Time of The Writer 2025 literary festival to be held in Durban, South Africa. She will work with assistant curator Thalente Ndlovu Time of the Writer is a literary festival organised by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts, in Durban, South Africa. Usually held in March,…
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Book Digest: Inès Senghor, Shafinaaz Hassim, Alyssa Cole, Hary Rabary
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Inès Senghor, Shafinaaz Hassim, Alyssa Cole, and Hary Rabary. Durban Darlings by Shafinaaz Hassim Publisher: KwelaDate: February 2024.Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Kwela Shafinaaz Hassim Shafinaaz Hassim is a South African author, poet and sociologist. Her published…
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South Africa’s Shafinaaz Hassim for Malawi
Shafinaaz Hassim is a South African author, poet, and sociologist. Her works include “Daughters are Diamonds: Honour, Shame & Seclusion- A South African Perspective” (2007) and “Memoirs For Kimya” (2009). The most recent novel of the editor of “Belly of Fire: an anthology” (2011) is “SoPhia” (Nov 2012) a book dealing with domestic violence. She…
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Cynthia Jele short story to kick off Long Story Short Project
There are so many events in and around the African Literature sphere in the very recent. One of the ones which I have been tracking and that interests me very much is the Long Story Short project which is the brainchild of Yewande Omotoso. Omotoso for the uninformed most recently was announced as one of…