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Event: Celebrating South African writing, food and wine

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Celebrating South African writing, food and wine. Restaurant Tjing-Tjing, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday 22 September, 18.30 for 19.00, 56-58 Cornelis Troost Street, Amsterdam. Bookings: 020-6760923.  Etienne van Heerden, Marita van der Vyver, Sonja Loots and Kirby van der Merwe will be sharing texts on food and wine. Master chef Michael Ricketts and wine expert Madri Victor, as well as singer Joep Pelt will be joining them in the celebration.

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‘Die swye van Mario Salviati’ on RSG

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Radio station RSG has announced that Etienne van Heerden’s novel Die swye van Mario Salviati (in English translation: The Long Silence of Mario Salviati) will be aired shortly, read over a period of months by well-known actor Chris van Niekerk. More info upcoming.

Online conference

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As editor of LitNet and LitNet Akademies, Etienne van Heerden is curating his third online writer’s conference, the first being Briewe deur die lug in 2000, with authors such as Breyten Breytenbach and Jakes Gerwel participating. The proceedings were published in Briewe deur die lug (Tafelberg Publishers). The second multilingual conference, Young Voices, was opened in 2011 by Nelson Mandela, and authors such as Niq Mhlongo, Sonja Loots and Lauren Beukes participated. The third conference is now running and called Poolshoogte, which means ‘checking the lay of the land’. Twenty years after the advent of democracy, Afrikaans academics, authors, translators, publishers and book journalists weigh in.
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