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This anthology is a collection of the top 15 stories from the past five years of the annual SA Writers College Short Story Competition, with a foreword by esteemed author Henrietta Rose-Innes. We hope you enjoy this diverse range of South African stories and share the free download with your friends and family.
Please click the book cover to start the download. The anthology is a.pdf and is 1MB in size. Once the download has finished you can read the stories or save them to a location on your computer.
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Find more information about: OCLC Number: 741967107 Description: 1 online resource (xxxv, 236 pages) Contents: The schoolmaster / Pauline Smith - The barren woman / H.I.E. Dhlomo - The kafir drum / H.C. Bosman - The home-coming / H.C. Bosman - Kwashiorkor / Can Themba - Stop thief!
/ Dan Jacobson - Enemies / Nadine Gordimer - Blankets / Alec La Guma - The hajji / Ahmed Essop - The Silva cup is broken / Mbulelo Mzamane - Learning to fly / Christopher Hope - The prophetess / Njabulo Ndebele - A trip to the Gifberge / Zoë Wicomb - Devil at a dead end / Miriam Tlali - Comrades / Nadine Gordimer - Holding back midnight / Maureen Isaacson - Butch goes to Botswana / Brendan Cline - Relatives / Chris van Wyk - The awakening of Katie Fortuin - There are virgins in the township / Mandla Langa - Recognition / David Medalie - Autopsy / Ivan Vladislavić. Responsibility: selected and introduced by David Medalie.
Among the twenty contributors to this anthology are Nobel Laureate, Nadine Gordimer; the immortal chronicler of the Groot Marico, Herman Charles Bosman; award-winning authors Ivan Vladislavic, Ahmed Essop, Mandla Langa, Dan Jacobson, Miriam Tlali, Christopher Hope, Mbulelo Mzamane and Chris van Wyk; and the legendary icon of Drum Magazine, Can Themba. Compiled and introdu Among the twenty contributors to this anthology are Nobel Laureate, Nadine Gordimer; the immortal chronicler of the Groot Marico, Herman Charles Bosman; award-winning authors Ivan Vladislavi´c, Ahmed Essop, Mandla Langa, Dan Jacobson, Miriam Tlali, Christopher Hope, Mbulelo Mzamane and Chris van Wyk; and the legendary icon of Drum Magazine, Can Themba. Compiled and introduced by David Medalie, this selection ranges across time, culture and style.
A book packed with African big guns when it comes to african literature, Chinua Achebe, Grace Ogot & Amos Tutuola were legends among other. The following are all the titles in this book, I volunteered and did this with some little research online, to those of you who are dieing to see the titles of these short sotries, here you go:) Smile of fortune, Gaele Sobbot-Mogwe - Botswana; the last breath, Sam Kahiga - Kenya; Ajaiya and the witch doctor, Amost Tutuola - Nigeria; Tekayo, Grace Ogot - A book packed with African big guns when it comes to african literature, Chinua Achebe, Grace Ogot & Amos Tutuola were legends among other. The following are all the titles in this book, I volunteered and did this with some little research online, to those of you who are dieing to see the titles of these short sotries, here you go:) Smile of fortune, Gaele Sobbot-Mogwe - Botswana; the last breath, Sam Kahiga - Kenya; Ajaiya and the witch doctor, Amost Tutuola - Nigeria; Tekayo, Grace Ogot - Kenya; the bewitching of Damieno, Barbara Kimenye - Uganda; a handful of dates, Tayed Salih - Sudan; the man, E.B. Dongala - Congo; amnesty, Nadine Gordimer, South Africa; the voter, Chinua Achebe - Nigeria; the prisoner who wore glasses, Bessie Head - Botswana; innocent terror, Tijan Sallah - the Gambia; Africa kills her sun, Ken Saro-Wiwa - Nigeria; Papa, snake and I, Luis Bernardo Honwana - Mozambique; a man must live, Ezekiel Mphahlele - South Africa. Various is the correct author for any book with multiple unknown authors, and is acceptable for books with multiple known authors, especially if not all are known or the list is very long (over 50).
If an editor is known, however, Various is not necessary. List the name of the editor as the primary author (with role 'editor'). Contributing authors' names follow it. Note: WorldCat is an excellent res Various is the correct author for any book with multiple unknown authors, and is acceptable for books with multiple known authors, especially if not all are known or the list is very long (over 50). If an editor is known, however, Various is not necessary. List the name of the editor as the primary author (with role 'editor').
Contributing authors' names follow it. Note: WorldCat is an excellent resource for finding author information and contents of anthologies.
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