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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.

Klik hier vir die volledige program.

Die tweede Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée, die breinkind van en georganiseer deur Darryl David, word van 22 tot 24 September in Cradock en Somerset-Oos aangebied. Vanjaar sal ‘n gratis slypskool vir ontwikkelende skrywers by die soirée aangebied word en dit begin reeds met openingslesings deur Etienne van Heerden op 20 September, om 18h00.

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The AKTV Prose Prize for the best Afrikaans novel is a literary award awarded annually by the ATKV to an Afrikaans writer for a work of prose published during the previous calendar year. The 2018 prize was awarded to Etienne van Heerden for Die wêreld van Charlie Oeng.