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Etienne van Heerden took part in the Crossing Borders Festival (The Hague, Netherlands and Antwerp, Belgium), launching the Dutch translation of 30 Nights in Amsterdam.

“Etienne van Heerden’s new novel 30 Nights in Amsterdam is an incredibly rich novel, magnificently
written … 30 Nights in Amsterdam is a raging whirlwind of events, ideas, feelings and facts, captivating and transporting readers, leaving them breathless after the last page.”

– Sonja Dejong, Haarlems Dagblad [Netherlands: The Hague, 14.12.2011]

Supporting emerging writers: Terry Westby-Nunn’s The Sea of Wise Insects, the manuscript of which was completed under the supervision of Etienne van Heerden as part of UCT’s Creative Writing programme, has just been published by Jacana.

Nicole Jaekel Strauss has been awarded the Eugéne Marais Prize (a prize awarded for an early work) for her debut, Maal. Strauss also received the University of Johannesburg Prize for a Debut Work for this manuscript, completed under the supervision of Etienne van Heerden.

Smaller, more compact paperback edition of 30 Nights in Amsterdam, to be launched on October 1st, 2011. New cover design. [09.2011]

With Earl Lovelace and Lynda Gilfillan, “The Pen Free the Word dialogue”, Open Book Festival, Cape Town, September 2011. (Photo: Books LIVE) [09.2011]

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Etienne van Heerden (middle) spoke at the second Olive Schreiner Karoo Writers’ Festival about the Karoo as his “landscape of the mind”. Here he is with a group at the Cradock Four Memorial. At the back, from left to right: Kaia van Heerden, Tim Wege, Darryl David (founder of the festival) and Rika Featherstonehaugh. In front, from left to right: June Walters, Miki Redelinghuys and her two children, Tumani Calata, Kiara David (daughter of Darryl), Menán van Heerden, Etienne van Heerden, Nomonde Calata (wife of activist Fort Calata, one of the Cradock Four), Julienne du Toit, Michael Antrobus, the author Michael Cawood Green and Christopher Nicholson (author of Who Killed the Cradock Four?) [07.2011]

• More photographs here.
• For photographs of the festival’s expedition to Schreiner’s grave on Buffelskop, click here.

With other artists and organisers at the Theatre of the Tropics, Amsterdam.
Gert Vlok Nel, Calvin Ngcaku, Joris Cornelissen (main organiser), Marita van der Vyver, Themba Ndimande, Etienne van Heerden, David Kramer, Niël Rademan, EKM Dido and Rachelle Conradie (organiser). [06.2011]

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Etienne van Heerden with Harry Garuba and Michiel Heyns, Men of Letters panel, Franschhoek Literary Festival 2011.

The first of four videoclips of Leon de Kock interviewing Etienne van Heerden and translator Michiel Heyns on 30 Nights in Amsterdam, Kalk Bay Books.

Read an extract from 30 Nights in Amsterdam on Words Without Borders.