Author Karen Jennings was in conversation with The JRB Editor Jennifer Malec at the Origins Centre in Johannesburg recently, as…
Submissions for the second annual Island Prize for a Debut Novel from Africa are now open. This literary prize, founded…
South African writer Sarah Isaacs has won the inaugural Island Prize for a Debut Novel from Africa with her manuscript…
With our last issue of 2021, the Fiction Issue, The JRB reached the milestone of publishing our 200th individual contributor….
The winners of the 2021 South African Literary Awards have been announced. The winning writers were announced in a virtual…
Karen Jennings was recently longlisted for the Booker Prize, for her novel An Island. Here she chats to The JRB…
The JRB presents an excerpt from Karen Jennings’s new novel An Island, which was recently longlisted for the Booker Prize….
The 2021 Booker Prize longlist has been announced, with this year’s crop of thirteen novels described by the judges as…
