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Nkosinathi Sithole’s Hunger Eats a Man Wins the 2016 Sunday Times Literary Fiction Award
27 June 2016
Debut novelist and Penguin Random House SA author, Nkosinathi Sithole, was announced as a winner at this year’s Sunday Times Literary Awards, recently held at a black tie event in Sandton, Johannesburg.
Sithole was awarded the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize for his bookHunger Eats a Man, a beautifully poetic, funny and highly relevant novel that...
Penguin Random House to publish film tie-in edition of I HAVE LIFE: ALISON’S JOURNEY
23 May 2016
The South African classic I Have Life: Alison’s Journey as told to Marianne Thamm is the inspiration behind a new film Alison: A Tale of Monsters, Miracles and Hope and Penguin Random House South Africa (PRHSA) will publish a film tie-in to coincide with the first screenings of the film in early June 2016.
I Have...
Imran Garda’s novel The Thunder That Roars wins the 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose
20 May 2016
Imran Garda’s debut novel, The Thunder That Roars, has been announced as the joint winner of the prestigious Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose. The prize is awarded annually by the English Academy of South Africa for a work of prose, poetry or drama.
Garda’s taut and thrilling novel draws on the author’s experience as a...
Press Release: New Zealand production company Stinkwood Films options Zirk van den Berg’s novel HALF OF ONE THING
31 March 2016
Movie rights to Zirk van den Berg’s period novel Half of One Thing have been optioned by independent producer Neil Sonnekus of Stinkwood Films.
‘It’s a wonderful read,’ Sonnekus said of the book. ‘I fell for the “historical record” hook, line and sinker. It’s a great, great con. The...
In the kitchen with Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen
30 March 2016
1. My first food memory is…choking on eating too many fresh garden peas at once in my grandfather's garden. I was 4.
2. My top tips for home cooks are...
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