Masande Ntshanga’s The Reactive was launched in October this year. Born and bred in East London, Ntshanga is a graduate of the Creative Writing Programme at the University of Cape Town and the winner of the 2013 Pen International New Voices Award. more after cut...
An Imperfect Blessing by Nadia Davids was shortlisted for the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature in early December.
Imran Garda’s The Thunder That Roars made the longlist for the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature. Garda was also one of the Mail & Guardian’s top 200 Young South Africans under the age of 35 for 2014.
Jaco van Schalkwyk’s The Alibi Club was published by Umuzi this year in both English and Afrikaans (Die Alibi Klub).
Oil field engineer turned banker turned writer Ekow Duker entered the literary scene with the publication of two novels at the same time this year. His debut, Dying in New York, was met with rave reviews (as was White Wahala).
Modjaji Books published Kholofelo Maenetsha’s To The Black Women We All Knew. Maenetsha launched her novel at Love Books in Joburg in April, where she spoke about Soweto as the setting for this modern novel about love and friendship among women.
Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho, who published a collection of short stories, A Traumatic Revenge, in 2011, made a poignant novelistic debut with The Violent Gestures of Life, which tells the story of Gift, a 14-year-old inmate of Qalakabusha youth reformatory. The author recently attended the Beijing International Book Fair with Sihle Khumalo, Professor Andries Oliphant, Primrose Mrwebi and Bathandwa Mcuba.
Invisible Others, a provocative and sensual debut novel from accomplished author and poet Karina M Szczurek, was published by Protea Boekhuis this year. It tells the story of a Polish historian who falls in love with a South African writer in Paris. Read an excerpt of the novel here.
Justin Fox is an experienced travel writer and photographer who entered the world of fiction with his first novel, Whoever Fears the Sea, this year. The book takes place within the murky world of Somali pirates, and was longlisted for the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature.
Penny Busetto’s The Story of Anna P, as Told by Herself, the manuscript of which won the 2013 EU Literary Award, was published by Jacana this year. The novel is set on the island of Ponza off the coast of Italy, but inspired by Antjie Krog’s account of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Country of My Skull. “I would love to find a way to write about South Africa, but for the moment it feels very difficult,” the author told Books LIVE.
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