The JRB Daily – Page 7 – The Johannesburg Review of Books

Phil Bonner, leading historian and Africanist scholar, passed away in Johannesburg on Sunday, 24 September, aged seventy-two. Bonner was Professor…

[The JRB Daily] JM Coetzee reads a new story, ‘The Glass Abattoir’, and announces a new book to feature Elizabeth Costello

As part of the programme for an international congress on ‘The work of John Maxwell Coetzee in Latin America’, JM…

The shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has been announced, with six books described as ‘playful, sincere,…

The winners of the English Academy of Southern Africa Awards for writing have been announced. Geoffrey Haresnape will receive the Thomas…

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

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