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  Andrew Brown

  ANDREW BROWN is an advocate and a sergeant in the saps reserves and police liaison officer for the Child Protection Unit at Red Cross Children’s Hospital. He is the author of two non-fiction books and five novels, including Coldsleep Lullaby, winner of the Sunday Times Prize for Fiction in 2006, and Refuge, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Literature (Africa Region) in 2009. Street Blues: The Experiences of a Reluctant Policeman was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award the same year. Andrew’s books are published in Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. He has three children and lives in Cape Town.

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  Vaddey Ratner

  Vaddey Ratner, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide and war refugee, is a Cambodian American novelist. She is the author of two critically-acclaimed novels. Her debut autobiographical New York Times bestseller, In the Shadow of the Banyan, was a finalist for both the 2013 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2013 Indies Choice Book of the Year and was selected for the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read program 2015-2016. Her second novel, Music of the Ghosts, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize 2018. Her works have been translated into twenty languages.

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  Antjie Krog

  Krog grew up on a farm, attending primary and secondary school in Kroonstad. In 1973 she earned a BA (Hons) degree in English from the University of the Orange Free State, and an MA in Afrikaans from the University of Pretoria in 1976. With a teaching diploma from the University of South Africa (UNISA) she would lecture at a segregated teacher’s training college for black South Africans.
  
  She is married to architect John Samuel and has four children: Andries, Susan, Philip, and Willem. In 2004 she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape.

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  Shubnum Khan

  Shubnum Khan is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years is her international debut and an NYT Editors Pick. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern etc. She lives in Durban by the sea.

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  Andrew Brown

  ANDREW BROWN is an advocate and a sergeant in the saps reserves and police liaison officer for the Child Protection Unit at Red Cross Children’s Hospital. He is the author of two non-fiction books and five novels, including Coldsleep Lullaby, winner of the Sunday Times Prize for Fiction in 2006, and Refuge, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Literature (Africa Region) in 2009. Street Blues: The Experiences of a Reluctant Policeman was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award the same year. Andrew’s books are published in Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. He has three children and lives in Cape Town.

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  Tom Eaton

  Tom Eaton is an author, screenwriter and columnist based in Cape Town, South Africa. Since establishing himself as a satirist for the Mail&Guardian and writing the bestselling The De Villiers Code, he has worked across media and genres, from print and digital to film and television. His fourth novel will be published by Penguin Random House in 2025.

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  Alistair Mackay

  Alistair Mackay is the author of It Doesn't Have To Be This Way (2022), a story of queer love and friendship through climate breakdown, and The Child (2024), a novel about healing, resilience and love in a divided country.

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  David Cornwell

  David Cornwell is a writer and musician. Born in Grahamstown, he currently lives in Cape Town, where he writes fiction, films and songs for his rock band Kraal. His writing has appeared in a number of publications, including the Mail & Gaurdian, Prufrock, Aerodrome, Jungle Jim, New Contrast, the Chiron Review and Quiddity International Literary Journal. Like It Matters is his first novel.

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  Rachel Joyce

  Rachel Joyce has written over 20 original afternoon plays for BBC Radio 4, and major adaptations for both the Classic Series, Woman's Hour and also a TV drama adaptation for BBC 2. In 2007 she won the Tinniswood Award for best radio play. She moved to writing after a twenty-year career in theatre and television, performing leading roles for the RSC, the Royal National Theatre, The Royal Court, and Cheek by Jowl, winning a Time Out Best Actress award and the Sony Silver.

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  Shubnum Khan

  Shubnum Khan is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years is her international debut and an NYT Editors Pick. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern etc. She lives in Durban by the sea.

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  Karen Jennings

  Karen Jennings is a South African writer based in Cape Town. She works in the History Department at the University of Stellenbosch, and particularly on the “Biography of an Uncharted People” project. Her debut American novel, An Island, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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  Deon Meyer

  Deon Meyer was born in the South African town of Paarl in the winelands of the Western Cape in 1958, and grew up in Klerksdorp, in the gold mining region of Northwest Province.
  
  After military duty and studying at the Potchefstroom University, he joined Die Volksblad, a daily newspaper in Bloemfontein as a reporter. Since then, he has worked as press liaison, advertising copywriter, creative director, web manager, Internet strategist, and brand consultant.
  
  Deon wrote his first book when he was 14 years old, and bribed and blackmailed his two brothers into reading it. They were not impressed (hey, everybody is a critic ...)
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  Heeding their wisdom, he did not write fiction again until he was in his early thirties, when he started publishi

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  Antjie Krog

  Krog grew up on a farm, attending primary and secondary school in Kroonstad. In 1973 she earned a BA (Hons) degree in English from the University of the Orange Free State, and an MA in Afrikaans from the University of Pretoria in 1976. With a teaching diploma from the University of South Africa (UNISA) she would lecture at a segregated teacher’s training college for black South Africans.
  
  She is married to architect John Samuel and has four children: Andries, Susan, Philip, and Willem. In 2004 she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape.

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  Alexandra Fuller

  Alexandra Fuller has written five books of non-fiction.
  
  Her debut book, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Random House, 2001), was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense best non-fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian’s First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.
  
  Her 2004 Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier (Penguin Press) won the Ulysses Prize for Art of Reportage.
  
  The Legend of Colton H Bryant was published in May, 2008 by Penguin Press and was a Toronto Globe and Mail, Best Non-Fiction Book of 2008.
  
  Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness was published in August 2011 (Penguin Press).
  
  Her latest book, Leaving Before the Rains Come, was publ

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  John Boyne

  I was born in Dublin, Ireland, and studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. In 2015, I was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by UEA.
  
  I’ve published 14 novels for adults, 6 novels for younger readers, and a short story collection. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas was a New York Times no.1 Bestseller and was adapted for a feature film, a play, a ballet and an opera, selling around 11 million copies worldwide.
  
  Among my most popular books are The Heart’s Invisible Furies, A Ladder to the Sky and My Brother’s Name is Jessica.
  
  I’m also a regular book reviewer for The Irish Times.
  
  In 2012, I was awarded the Hennessy Literary ‘Hall of Fame’ Award for my body of work. I’v

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  Arundhati Roy

  Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.
  
  For her work as an activist she received the Cultural Freedom Prize awarded by the Lannan Foundation in 2002.
  
  

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  Nick Mulgrew

  Nick Mulgrew is an award-winning writer, editor and publisher, currently based in Edinburgh. He is the author of six books, and since 2014 is the director of uHlanga, an acclaimed South African poetry press.
  
  His novels include A Hibiscus Coast, winner of the 2022 K. Sello Duiker Memorial Award. Among other accolades, he is the winner of the 2016 Thomas Pringle Award, the 2018 Nadine Gordimer Prize (for his story collection, The First Law of Sadness), and is the recipient of a Mandela Rhodes Scholarship.

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  Alistair Mackay

  Alistair Mackay is the author of It Doesn't Have To Be This Way (2022), a story of queer love and friendship through climate breakdown, and The Child (2024), a novel about healing, resilience and love in a divided country.

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  David Cornwell

  David Cornwell is a writer and musician. Born in Grahamstown, he currently lives in Cape Town, where he writes fiction, films and songs for his rock band Kraal. His writing has appeared in a number of publications, including the Mail & Gaurdian, Prufrock, Aerodrome, Jungle Jim, New Contrast, the Chiron Review and Quiddity International Literary Journal. Like It Matters is his first novel.

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  Tom Eaton

  Tom Eaton is an author, screenwriter and columnist based in Cape Town, South Africa. Since establishing himself as a satirist for the Mail&Guardian and writing the bestselling The De Villiers Code, he has worked across media and genres, from print and digital to film and television. His fourth novel will be published by Penguin Random House in 2025.

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  Marina Auer

  Marina Auer is a graduate of the University of Cape Town Medical School and spent several years working in state hospitals before moving into private practice.
  Double Edged, her first novel, was published in 2023. Single Minded (Kwela, 2024), was shortlisted for the Island Prize for African Writers. Her third novel is due out mid-2025.
  She lives with her family – two teenagers, two cats, one husband – in Durban, South Africa.

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  A.M. Holder

  Alene Mari Holder

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