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Dambudzo Marechera's Influence on Contemporary Zimbabwean Fiction
Over at Ivor W.Hartmann's Facebook fan page, some Zimbabwean writers and readers are remembering Dambudzo Marechera (June, 1952-August, 1987). The man has had a profound influence on Zimbabwean literature, and a lot of the contemporary writers in would...
Tags: dambudzo marechera, zimbabwean fiction, african literature, christopher mlalazi, memory chirere, petina gappah, brian chikwava
Reading African Literature: An Interview with Marcellina Chikasha
In this post I interview Marcellina Chikasha, the founder of a reading initiative called TALENT. She was brought to my attention by Ivor W. Hartmann, after I complained in a blog post that all the big literary contests, judged by big writers like J.M....
Tags: marcellina Chikasha, TALENT, Tavavanhu, African Literature
Interviewing your characters improves your story-telling
I know we are the creators of the characters. We have the power to make them protagonists, to make them nameless anti-heroes, and often we are too controlling and subject them to our will, so that they operate like puppets we manipulate. As I revise some...
Tags: emmanuel sigauke, african literature, new zimbabwean writing, characterization
How to Read Yvonne Vera, an Introduction
In his review of Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins, Zakes Mda, author of The Heart of Redness, stated that Zimbabwean writers were leaders in Post-colonial African literature, "and Vera is by far the most imaginative and original voice among them." Mda...
Tags: Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean literature, African literature
Writing News: Mlalazi, Morrison, Mungoshi, Moyo, Munro and More...
Toni Morrison on the dangers of censorship. Books are sacred, authors are humanity's necessity. Marilynne Robinson wins the 2009 Orange Prize. When it comes to writing, she takes her time, letting the story gestate even for decades. I have always broswed...
Tags: Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, ivor w. hartmann, African literature, lion press
Books of Gold and Munyori discuss African Literature
Below is dialogue that has begun in response to a questionnaire on African literature I posted a week ago. memole, who blogs at Books of Gold, sets us off with this very good comment, which I think deserves highlighting: The first one is not a silly...
Tags: african literature, chinua achebe, books for gold, memole, dambudzo marechera, Nadine Gordimer, coetzee, andre brink
How to Read African Literature and Why
I am fascinated by the authority assumed in Harold Bloom's How to Read and Why. In that book he goes on to discuss authors whom everyone who is serious about reading should read in the literary categories of short story, poetry, novels, plays, and more...
Tags: african literature, new african writing, chinua achebe, ngugi wa thiongo
The Time for the African Female Writer
Studying Linguistics many years ago I came across books that suggested that women had a strong impact on the language of a culture, which is why we call language Mother Tongues; then it helped that I was growing up in Africa, where old women told us stories...
Penguin South Africa Unveils New Competition for New African Writers
Penguin South Africa has announced its R100 000.00 writing contest for new African writers. There are two categories: fiction and non-fiction. Submissions for both categories are now open, and close on the 30th of January 2010. The shortlist will be announced...
Tags: African writing competition, Penguin South africa, fiction Prize, non-fiction prize, new african writing, african literature
2009 PEN/Studzinski Literary Shortlist out
This is the stage of the contest when Nobel Laureate J.M Coetzee reads the selected stories. This year there were over 800 entries to this important African writing contest, and of these, only 34 were selected for judging by Coetzee, who will choose...
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