Brand new editions of Zoo City and Moxyland are out in the USA this week, from my brilliant publisher Mulholland! It was also the perfect excuse to break out the sloth scarf I wore to the Arthur C Clarke Award ceremony five years ago! I love the playful, toothy rawness of the new Zoo City […]
BBC4 Radio interviewed a bunch of interesting South African writers including Ivan Vladislavic, Niq Mhlongo, Nadia Davids, Thando Mgqolozana, Lebo Mashile and me for a three part radio series hosted by Thabiso Mohare. Read about it here. Listen to ep. 1 Johannesburg City of Recent Arrivals BBC Radio 4 Listen to episode 2 Page & Stage BBC […]
My French publisher, Presses de la Cité, just sent me the cover for the French edition of Broken Monsters and it’s beautiful and I am completely in love with it and beside myself. The book will be out in Autumn in Europe, translated by the incredibly fastidious and brilliant Laurent Philibert-Caillat. In the meantime, you can […]
The Book Lounge in Cape Town is one of favourite places in the world and, not uncoincidentally, my homeground indie bookstore. I’ve debuted all my novels there since Moxyland and what I love about them is that they’re not only open to my weird ideas to do an unconventional launch, they […]
I had a very interesting conversation with an activist, Sean CG at Nostalgia For Infinity who reviewed Moxyland as a snapshot of 2008, a very particular moment in history, pre-Occupy and Anonymous. He makes some very intriguing points about how activism works now and how if Tendeka was operating today, he wouldn’t be isolated or […]
I love getting fan-art, it’s so awesome to see your ideas re-imagined through someone else’s head and talent (especially when it’s a talent I don’t have myself). This poster is by 22 year old Hungarian illustrator and Moxy-fan Ferenc Patkós. There’s more of his art over on DeviantArt http://hundrenus.deviantart.com/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/drenusart
So, so, so excited and happy to (pre)announce this. Curator Jacki Lang and I are putting together a charity art show inspired by The Shining Girls with all proceeds going to Rape Crisis. The exhibition will run from 6-11 September in collaboration with the Open Book Festival in Cape Town’s fringe district. We’re approaching a […]