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Etienne van Heerden with fellow novelist André Brink at the launch of Van Heerden’s short story collection Haai Karoo at the Open Book Festival, Fugard Theatre, Cape Town (photo: Chrizane van Zyl).

Etienne van Heerden signing a copy of Haai Karoo for ex-student René Penderis (photo: Chrizane van Zyl).

“Poison Karoo” is a chapter from Etienne van Heerden’s novel about a yo-yo champion, to be published in March 2013 by Tafelberg Publishers.

The English translation of Gifkaroo is by Isobel Dixon, whose poems about the Karoo are included in her collections The Tempest Prognosticator (2011), A Fold in the Map (2007) and Weather Eye (2001), which was awarded the Olive Schreiner Prize in 2004. She grew up in Graaff-Reinet.

Poison Karoo is a work of fiction, written as if commercial hydraulic fracking has already begun in the Karoo.

• Elbie Adendorff: ’n Klein lewe allesbehalwe klein

(’n Klein lewe was completed under the supervision of Etienne van Heerden as part of UCT’s Creative Writing programme).

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Entertainer David Kramer was seen in the LitNet television ad – with Peter-Dirk Uys, André P. Brink, Etienne van Heerden and others.

With sculptor Frans Boekkooi and ‘Featherman’, Boekkooi’s depiction of the Angel in Etienne van Heerden’s novel The Long Silence of Mario Salviati. At the 2012 Karoo Writers Festival, Cradock.

The LitNet team at the Karoo Writers Festival 2012 presented the LitNet Schools Indaba and the panel ‘Cultural Crossover: Is it happening?’ In the picture: Etienne van Heerden, Bibi Slippers (LitNet), Russel Kaschula (Director of the School of Languages, University of Rhodes, and author), EKM Dido (the first black woman to publish an Afrikaans novel) and (seated) Peter Mtuze, author and former Head of African Languages at Rhodes University.

The Karoo launch of Etienne van Heerden’s short story collection Haai Karoo will take place at the Schreiner Karoo Writers Festival in Cradock on Friday, 10 August at 19h00, Victoria Manor, Mark Street.