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Graphomania: André Brink wrote personal journals throughout his life. (Louise Gubb/Corbis/Getty Images)

A love for writing and women

Renowned South African author André Brink pursued love as voraciously as he wrote

Forensic fiction: Leading crime writer Deon Meyer examines the seamier side of life in SA after apartheid.

Post-liberation writing plays hide-and-seek with plot

What is the real issue facing South African writers after apartheid?

Ivan Vladislavi? is finally finding international recognition.

Win pulls Ivan Vladislavic out of the margins

The author’s recent R1.5-million Windham Campbell award for fiction could not have come sooner, writes Leon de Kock.

South African fiction in English

The SA Lit issue won’t go away

Where to now for the South African writer of fiction in English? asks Leon de Kock.

The ‘protection of the Act’ means indemnity from liability.

Act puts noose around the internet’s neck

A badly drafted law easily allows anyone to censor the content of websites hosted in South Africa, writes Leon de Kock

High noon in the badlands

Mike Nicol’s revenge trilogy is more socially relevant than most literary SA fiction, writes <b>Leon de Kock</b>

Why rage is inevitable

Publishing is like a busy highway on which there are so many different types of drivers and crashes are common .

Going after the real thing

<b>Leon de Kock</b> walks the line between the real and the "real" in South African writing.

Grim land of animals and survivors

Leon de Kock reports on the violent Arcadia in South African fiction, as seen in Alistair Morgan’s <i>Sleeper’s Wake</i>

Leaving the forefront of African lit

Literary great Es’kia Mphahlele will pass on his intellectual legacy to many generations to come.

Politics of publishing

Leon de Kock looks back on a recent colloquium held at Wits University which focused on the role of publishers in non-fiction.