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At the Scaena Theatre in Bloemfontein, Johann Rossouw (Department of Philosophy, University of the Free State) and author Etienne van Heerden spoke about student protests, cultural appropriation, psychological time, surveillance, the future of South Africa and many other topical issues.
Videographer: Chris van den Berg
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The Stellenbosch launch took place at Stellenbosch Hotel, where publisher Etienne Bloemhof interviewed author Etienne van Heerden.
Videographer: Naomi Bruwer
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Featerstream by Ian Sutherland was published in 2018 by Vindigo Press.
About the book
www.iansutherland.co.za
February 1942. With the Nazis triumphant in Europe, North Africa and much of the USSR, control of the shipping lanes off the southernmost tip of Africa is an Allied imperative. At the urging of Prime Minister Jan Smuts, South Africa’s parliament has narrowly voted to join the British war effort, but the country remains bitterly divided. Feisty university student Anna van der Vliet returns to her family farm near Cape Agulhas during the holidays. Noticing strange comings and goings in the area, she begins to suspect that her father, a prominent Member of Parliament, may be involved in a clandestine operation to aid the enemy.
As a patriot, Anna feels compelled to inform the authorities, but what if this means betraying her family and lover? Drawing on extensive historical research, Featherstream is a unique tapestry of suspense, wartime intrigue and romance.
First time author Ian Sutherland gets under your skin in this historical novel set in the breath-taking Cape Agulhas area in a pre-Nationalist South Africa. It’s a compelling read, with a wonderful sense of place and a cracking pace.
~ Love Books
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Talion by Beyers de Vos was published in 2018 by Penguin Random House South Africa.
About the book
ISBN 9781485903482
Pretoria: Five people with distinct lives, living in different sections of the city, but all tied together in ways they have yet to understand. Ben and Freya are orphaned twins, and Freya believes them to be as close as twins can be, but Ben has kept secrets from Freya that have led to his murder. Mr October is a widowed father, a rugby coach at a high school, and a devout Christian, but harbours a dark past that haunts him. Slick is a self-harming drug dealer, who, shaped by the brutal lessons of his mentor, Mama Africa, knows retribution is a vital aspect of staying in control. And Nolwazi is an inspector with the Brooklyn Police Department, who wants to do her job properly, but is thwarted by an over-worked system and corrupt peers.
Why did Ben die? Who killed him? Who will be the one to achieve justice? And is justice even a possibility?
A gripping literary debut, Talion captures the dark and messy consequences of grief, anger and revenge.
Click here to read an extract from Talion.
Etienne van Heerden delivered the keynote at Lit.Fest 2018 in Harare, Zimbabwe, and took part in a panel discussion on digital spaces.
At Lit.Fest 2018 in Harare, with Zimbabwean novelist Shimmer Chinodya, Numero Uno from Nigeria and poet Chirikure Chirikure, Zimbabwe.
Veldskoolprogram 20–21 September
Openingslesings – Donderdag 20 September
6.00–7.30 Genesis en geaardheid – Etienne van Heerden
7.45–8.30 Vreemdmaking – Etienne van Heerden
Die tweede Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée vind vanjaar van 22 tot 25 September op Cradock en Somerset-Oos plaas. Darryl David, feesorganiseerder, vertel vir Naomi Meyer hiervan.
Darryl, die Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée vind binnekort plaas en ek sien jy noem dit jou mees egte Karoofees. Sal jy, wat boekefeeste dwarsoor die land reël, asseblief nog meer van die fees vertel? Waarom Cradock?
Ligging vir enige fees is uiters belangrik. Vir al my feeste het ek fraai dorpe gekies: Montagu, Howick, Pniel. Natuurlik is daar BookBedonnerd in die hart van die Karoo. Maar by al hierdie feeste val die klem meestal op die literêre. By die Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée vind die meerderheid van die fees plaas in ’n verlate Karoo-landskap by Buffelskop – die laaste rusplek van Olive Schreiner. En die fees skop af by Die Tuishuise – sekerlik die pragtigste “straatskap” in Suid-Afrika met tipiese Karoo-argitektuur. Geeneen van my ander feeste het hierdie kombinasie nie. As jy deur Dirosie Gastehuis ry, dan hoor jy Olive se woorde – “such a sense of wild exhilaration comes over me”. En hierdie jaar gaan ons na Somerset-Oos ry. Geen ander literêre toer is mal genoeg om mense 100 km te laat ry nie. Maar vir hierdie toer wou ek mense ’n tipiese Karoo-ervaring gee. Die wildernis is goed vir die siel. Soos Etienne nou die dag op Facebook gesê het: “The brain needs silence.”
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