
Klimtol has been nominated, together with five other novels, for the Huisgenoot Tempo Award for best novel in 2014. Vote here!

Klimtol has been nominated, together with five other novels, for the Huisgenoot Tempo Award for best novel in 2014. Vote here!

Sociologist Desmond Painter writes an essay on the theory of play in Klimtol. Read it here.
Etienne van Heerden has been invited to the Netherlands and Belgium for the Week of the Novel
in September 2014. More particulars here.

Klimtol by Etienne van Heerden has been shortlisted for the WA Hofmeyr Award, along with Eben Venter’s Wolf, wolf and Donkerland by Kerneels Breytenbach and Deon Opperman.


Etienne van Heerden will be in conversation with Deborah Steinmair about Klimtol at the ABSA KKNK Festival in Oudtshoorn, 1 April 2014.

Gareth Langdon reviews In Love’s Place in Aerodrome
“In Love’s Place is an incredibly satisfying and thoroughly local read.” – Gareth Langdon, Aerodrome
