Located in the small oasis town of Somerset East in the semiarid Karoo midlands of South Africa, there is a house for writers: Paulet House, where emerging and established writers come to give their ...

Resistance in South Africa -- A South African publishing apprenticeship -- The search for black writers -- Apartheid sends writers to prison -- What is an African writer? -- Cultural boycott and ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – South Africa’s J.M. Coetzee, whose stories tell of innocents and outcasts oppressed by the cruel weight of history, won the 2003 Nobel Prize for literature Thursday. The ...

For decades, there was one path to becoming a successful African writer: Getting a book deal in the publishing meccas of New York, London or Paris. But a radical shift is underway, transforming the ...

Deep South, a small publisher with big influence, has expanded its website with easy-to-access information about its poets and their work. From angry spirits and parallel universes to alien abductions ...

The South African Literary Awards (SALA) proudly mark their 20th anniversary in 2025, a historic milestone that coincides ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. A new writing programme, launched by theatre production company HOW NOW BROWN COW, ...

From tax battles to the VBS heist, a new book details how the EFF leader has skirted controversy while consolidating his ...

In 1965, at the age of 15, my father—along with his parents and two brothers—emigrated from a racist South Africa. His relationship with that nation, over the 42 years since, has been a complicated ...

Split by a road but stretching across 47-acres is the campus of the Penn Center, founded in 1862 as the Penn School on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina as a school for the newly emancipated on the ...