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[The JRB Daily] Fiction is essential in a corrupt society – Read Zakes Mda’s Sunday Times Literary Awards keynote address

Zakes Mda was the keynote speaker at the Sunday Times Literary Awards last night. Mda won the Barry Ronge Fiction…

Zakes Mda and Greg Marinovich were announced as the winners of the 2017 Sunday Times Literary Awards last night. The awards…

Angolan author José Eduardo Agualusa has won the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award for his novel A General Theory of…

Lambda Literary, an organisation advancing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) literature, has announced the winners of the 29th Annual…

Bestselling Israeli writer David Grossman has won the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for his ‘ambitious high-wire act of a…

The shortlists for the 2016 University of Johannesburg Prizes for South African Writing in English have been announced, with works…

The second issue of The Johannesburg Review of Books is here—replete with some of the finest writing on books and…

I don’t believe any biographer can be objective. —Mark Gevisser … I saw a sign over a door in café…

The JRB brings you an exclusive excerpt from a work in progress by Deejay Manaleng, which tells the story of…

A new edition of Achmat Dangor’s acclaimed novel Bitter Fruit is out soon from Picador Africa, ahead of the publication…