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REGULARS EVENTS Bookmark �� 2 International Book Fairs: �� 5 SA Booksellers Association �� 2 SA Booksellers National Executive Committee �� 2 AWARDS Letter from the President �� 3 Breaking barriers �� 9 Members listing �� 15 Afritondo Short Story prize ��11

FEATURES PROFILE Literary love in a time of a biological war �� 4 Angela Makholwa Moabelo �� 12 Local talent – Illustrators �� 6 The old book smell �� 7 TRIBUTE Books finding readers �� 7 Elsa Joubert, timeless lessons �� 14 Bookdealers and book dealing �� 8 Jeanne Goosen, her voice will never be silent �� 14

Upcoming topics in the Bookmark June newsletter:

• A world re-imagined – how booksellers are adapting to the new ‘normal’ • Booksellers survey – by Tuks School of Informatics Contributions to the Bookmark Magazine • BK Publishing donates Supernova hampers to and Newsletter are welcome: needy children Please contact the editor at • SA Book Fair 2020 to go virtual [email protected]

Bookmark Issue 100 1 APRIL – JUNE 2020 SA Booksellers National Executive Committee

MAGAZINE OF THE SA BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION Issue 100 • 2nd Quarter 2020 PRESIDENT AND DIGITAL SECTOR HEAD Melvin Kaabwe EDITOR Heleen Liebenberg [email protected] • 021 918 4000 EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING +27 (0)82 787 9837 • [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT AND NORTHERN REGION SUBSCRIPTIONS SA Booksellers Office CHAIRPERSON +27 (0)21 003 8098 • [email protected] Riaz Hassim [email protected] • 011 726 8208 FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS Melvin Kaabwe, Shafinaaz Hassim, Heleen Liebenberg, Cobi Labuscagne , Doron Locketz, Lee Maddeux, Siphiwo Mahala, Mandla Zibi VICE-PRESIDENT AND ACADEMIC SECTOR HEAD Mohamed Kharwa PHOTOGRAPHS [email protected] • 031 337 2112 Thanks to all for photographic contributions

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SECRETARY AND LIBRARY SECTOR HEAD ABOUT THE SA BOOKSELLERS’ ASSOCIATION Vic Lopich The SA Booksellers Association represents a united front [email protected] • 0861 229 229 for booksellers. Through strategic liaison with the differ- ent sectors of the industry and provinces, SA Booksellers strives to regulate the book-trade, reminding publishers to act as wholesalers and booksellers as retailers. CENTRAL REGION CHAIRPERSON The annual SA Booksellers AGM has historically been Guru Redhi co-located with the Publishers Association of South [email protected] • 032 945 1240 Africa (PASA) AGM. The AGM is open to all members of SA Booksellers and is a conference full of information, energetic discussions, pertinent topics and eloquent speakers. This is an opportunity for education for all, EASTERN REGION CHAIRPERSON keeping members at the cutting edge of developments in Sydwell Molosi our ever changing industry. [email protected] • 047 531 0319 SA Booksellers works closely with government departments, educational authorities, and the state tender boards concerning matters that affect the trade. EDUCATION AND SOUTHERN REGION CHAIRPERSON More than 50% of SA Booksellers members are Hentie Gericke previously disadvantaged and SA Booksellers is [email protected] • 021 981 1270 well positioned to lobby government on all issues pertinent to the book trade. SA Booksellers provides access to information for all its members, through the commissioning of research papers and the gathering of GENERAL TRADE SECTOR HEAD news, to the effective dissemination of this information Grattan Kirk via the industry magazine Bookmark and through [email protected] • 083 450 8855 www.sabooksellers.com. Bookmark, the official magazine of SA Booksellers, is distributed free of charge to all members as well as to all influential people in the book trade from publishers to SABA NATIONAL OFFICE government departments. The digital edition is sent to Tashrikah Jones an ever increasing subscriber database. This magazine [email protected] • 021 003 8098 is a mouthpiece for SA Booksellers members as much as it is a source of information. Send a letter to the editor at [email protected] to have your views published. The Executive Committee of SA Booksellers and the Editor thank all those who contributed to this issue of Bookmark through SA Booksellers, PO Box 870, Bellville, 7535 articles and/or advertising. Tel: 021 003 8098 [email protected] www.sabooksellers.com SA Booksellers National Office Office Hours: Monday to Friday,09 :00 to 13:00 [email protected] 021 003 8098

Bookmark Issue 100 2 APRIL – JUNE 2020 Regulars Letter from the President

ear readers, to have a secure book eco-system for DBooksellers are the curators of our all readers in South Africa both online local community’s primary knowledge and offline. resources. This is more of a calling than Books are essential. They will continue a job. It is not for the faint-hearted nor to be, even beyond the current Covid-19 those averse to risk. In fact, as with our containment restrictions. Booksellers are compatriots on the front-lines of the war encouraged to continue in doing their against Covid-19 in medical care casualty vocation for the literacy of all our people. wards, few in this profession would be Reading is an overwhelmingly accessible practising for the sake of self-enrichment. and efficient transmission of concepts. It Technologies to shield Point of Sale It is a higher desire than profit to educate is therefore a pre-requisite for health, civic staff such as perspex screens are a must. our young, inspire our adults and exercise and community activism, active citizenry, We will look to engage with Government the minds of our aged. national development, law and order, on assisting small businesses with Our doctors depend on books, so inter-generational wealth, socialisation, funding for such in the future interests too every facet of our lives is influenced safety and security. Let us not shrink from of our staff and reading customers. by readership. If it were not so, every our responsibility, this is a time to show Some chains may also be well placed to post-apocalyptic scenario would our commitment as agents of positive implement contactless payment at their not depict freedom of speech and change. POS as well as emailing or SMS invoices information as being essential to be Last year at the London Book Fair, I as receipts to customers thus avoiding attacked, manipulated or controlled. In was fortunate to have met Trevor Goul- manual exchanges of paper. Our online Fahrenheit 451, in Animal Farm, in the Wheeker, Chair of Blackwell’s. In the orders would endeavour to sanitise very hieroglyphs at Giza we see the power discussion and subsequent visits to their packages in despatch to clients and of communicating thoughts. In early bookstores, it was clear that the business offer front-door and curb-side drop off of evidences of human activity: recording life of books is irrepressible. Booksellers parcels or contactless collection via locker via a cave wall, stone tablet or paper was will adapt and survive accordingly. The outposts at fuel stations and such. indeed the expression of people relaying challenges Booksellers face regarding In short, a good business can survive thought to others coming after them. declining sales trends have been well the test of time by thinking ahead in Posterity is written into our genetic code. articulated in the past however there are fulfilling essential needs. It is these Whereas authorship is contestable, the some tips relating to Covid-19 available businesses that are ultimately successful result is evident. Books are essential to in the following. I urge Booksellers and in the long run. If you don’t believe me who we are as a species. The discourse is others in the value-chain to consider then best believe this is (in fact) the often occluded by the message, medium implementing enhanced measures investment strategy of the Oracle of and methodology being interdependent for Public safety. Gearing up now will Omaha and he has done quite well at however that is only natural as our proof of pay-off in the future as more viruses that. Books are essential and they fulfil humanity’s existence is similarly alleged pop-up and our customers become more an essential need. Let us stand, socially- to be interdependent. circumspect about brands that are actively distant but united in our endeavours to In the absurd calculus of a pandemic, involved in protecting humanity’s health. fulfil the essential role our communities we see this more than ever before. Some Some revolutionary measures taken by have entrusted in us. under-estimate the very necessity of books Blackwell’s well before this pandemic and by lockdown extension, the necessity were simply good business decisions to See you in a bookshop soon! of Booksellers. Of course these nay- future-proof the business and have paid sayers are woefully under-educated. The strategic dividends in hind-sight where Thanks, following articles may serve as remedial Corona was not the primary concern. Melvin interventions. Spacing of fixtures on retail floor being ▾ Humanity faces crisis events at maximised, one copy per title on a shelf notable times in recorded history. Each to limit customer handling, clear signage time, the books were banned, burned or regarding minimal staff assistance on the bastardised because such is the power of sales floor but monitored and stocked by the written word. As the SA Booksellers a bigger back office with more employee Association, we have worked continually ownership exposure to operations. throughout this period to safe-guard Efficient use of entry and exits, sanitiser our Booksellers members’ interest and standards, limiting people in stores and in so doing the continuity of this noble marketing at-home delivery of books. All community’s curatorship role. We have these have put Blackwell’s in a better engaged with various role-players position to cope with health emergencies, throughout the bookselling value chain in advance. in order to ensure the public continues

Bookmark Issue 100 3 APRIL – JUNE 2020 Features Literary love in a time of a biological war

t is a reality. While still drunk on the When the first case was announced to morning, panic had set in. The shops felt Ieuphoria of planning a book tour for have arrived in South Africa, people felt like Black Friday. Except, it was just 16 the latest publication in my young adult the despair, but it seemed contained. The March. Toilet paper flew off the shelves. series, Nisa Qamar and the Legend of individual did the right thing and sought The case numbers continued to climb. Qawthar at the end of February, and medical advice, self-isolated, health At first, Time of the Writer sent out in great anticipation for the upcoming department was able to trace his contacts. a communiqué reassuring writers and Time of the Writer Festival in KZN, the All protocol in order. A week later, we saw patrons of extensive measures taken by cautionary announcements about the dark a slow climb in numbers. I felt the anxiety UKZN and themselves to ensure safety cloud of the coronavirus being battled one night and woke in the early hours to and hygiene protocols. Being one of the in other parts of the world seemed far find an old professor friend online, now most popular festivals in the country, the away. The horror was somewhere out living in the US. All he said was: think team navigated uncharted territory for a there, but not at home. We watched in of it like this, we’re preparing for war. few hours and then a few hours before disbelief as the London Book Fair got The enemy is unknown. This is just the opening night, they cancelled the festival. cancelled. A number of other festivals in beginning. I knew that I wasn’t just having A few hours later, not to be defeated, the northern hemisphere announced their a panic attack, I couldn’t get on that flight they did something unprecedented. They postponement including the Palestine to Durban. It was a personal choice. Social launched the Time of the Writer digital Literary Festival. distancing was the only way to do this. I platform, and brought us all back onboard sent my regrets to the festival director at from wherever we were based. In a time of Time of the Writer. I made my apologies to despair and uncertainty, the week turned the children’s book fair in Johannesburg into a true festival of literary celebration, and sat tight. Within minutes of my email, delayed slightly by the new arrangements the festival announced that I was among but then went on with media partners to four writers who would not be attending, engage book launches and discussions via two of whom were impacted by the spread Twitter, Facebook Live and IGTV (Instagram of the virus because of international travel TV). We experienced a few technical bans in place. We all know how months go glitches but those were quickly ironed out into planning these events. The cracks of or improvised by the quick-thinking social devastation were already being felt. media manager, Marlyn Ntsele. Michelle The infection numbers climbed. On Constant was great using her platform on Sunday night, we heard the confirmation SAfm for interviews and we truly made it from our President with clarity and happen. sombreness. It was here. We needed So much has happened over these to stay at home to flatten the curve of past three weeks, the world as we know it rate of transmissions if not the scale of has changed. We are fighting a common infection so that we don’t overwhelm enemy, albeit an invisible one in this the health system. By Monday biological war of Covid-19 vs humankind. And we are navigating one day at a time as the case numbers continue to rise. But the great thing to remember is the strength of human spirit, the thirst to overcome and to maintain safety and the amazing spirit of solidarity that can be sustained through the shared arts, music, literature and everything of beauty that is born through us. In uncertain times, this is how we will see the triumph of human spirit.

Shafinaaz Hassim Shafinaaz is a South African author, poet and sociologist. Her published works include ‘Daughters are Diamonds: Honour, Shame & Seclusion – A South African Perspective’ (2007), ‘Memoirs for Kimya’ (2009), and the critically acclaimed novel on domestic violence ‘SoPhia’ (2012). ▾ Bookmark Issue 100 4 APRIL – JUNE 2020 Events International Book Fairs: June – September 2020 n response to the Covid-19 pandemic some IInternational Book Fairs have adapted their festivals. Here is an updated list from June till September. In the next Bookmark issue updates will be given for fairs in October till December 2020.

June 2020 Seoul International Book Fair, Korea, postponed (https://sibf.or.kr)

July 2020 Hong Kong Book Fair, Hong Kong, 15 – 21 July (http://hkbookfair.hktdc.com) Comic-Con International, San Diego, USA, Cancelled (www.comic-con.org)

August 2020 Beijing International Book Fair, China, 26 – 30 August (www.bibf.net) Melbourne Writers Festival, Australia, 28 August – 6 September, Digital festival (https://mwf.com.au/) Ghana International Book Fair, Accra, Ghana, 26 – 29 August (https://ghanabookfair.com)

September 2020 Moscow International Book Fair, Russia 2 – 6 September (http://fair.mibf.info/english) Open Book Festival, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 – 6 September (https://openbookfestival.co.za) South African Book Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa, 11 – 13 September, Virtual festival (www.southafricanbookfair.co.za) Gabarone Book Festival, Botswana, 17 – 19 September (https://web. facebook.com/gaboronebookfestival/) Bloody Scotland International Crime Festival, Stirling, UK, Cancelled (https://bloodyscotland.com) Nairobi International Book Fair, Kenya, 26 – 30 September (http://kenyapublishers.org) Göteborg Book Fair, Sweden, 24 – 27 September (https://goteborg-bookfair.com)

Bookmark Issue 100 5 APRIL – JUNE 2020 Features Local talent – Illustrators

erhaps you are like me in that you have Pspent far more time getting to know international illustrators and children’s writers than those from just around the corner? Perhaps you know about Andy Griffin and Terry Denton’s Tree Houses, creatures. The one book that immediately has! The images Alex Smith’s beloved Claud, Jeff Kinney stands out for me in this style is not bear a real trace of the hand of Wimpy Kid fame, Alex Scheffeler who necessarily new, but one that my little ones in the same way as famous classical brought Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffaloe have grown up with because it was given children’s looks such as those by Enid alive – and not forgetting Charlie and to me as a gift when my first was still in my Blyton, or even Winnie the Pooh. Lola by Lauren Child? Yes, many of these tummy. Babalela written by Marti Preller Also falling in this category for me is images have now expanded their reach and illustrated by Erica and Andries Maritz author and illustrator, Rachel Isadora with beyond books to television and movies. was originally Afrikaans but have since titles such as I just want to say goodnight It was only when I started to research been translated into other languages. The (2017), I Hear a Pickle. Isadora, like Daly for my own children’s book project that stories are wonderful but, in my opinion, has received many honours for their I came upon the wealth of beauty, skill it is the purple little body and face of the illustration work. In her case, some of and knowledge that is the South African Babalela that steels your heart. So, the them are done as oil paintings. children’s illustration scene. There are illustration is really what brings it alive for Often seen as in contrast to the many people out there who have the adults and children alike. classical mode of illustration, would be talent to draw and some put that to use The cover illustration for Hamilton those that take advantage of all that the to entertain and enrich the lives of our Wende’s Arrabella, the Moon and the digital world can bring to image-making. children. They have a multitude of styles Magic Mongongo Nut by Alex Latimer One can’t deny the influence of the digital and inspirations. I have my favourites, also falls in this category. This is unlike on all that we see around us. A younger I hope after reading this, you will the other books I mention here in that we generation is even more steeped in digital have yours. get to know the story through this cover image-making than I might be and for Assuming I am not the only one still illustration because this is a ‘chapter them this is a very recognisable and easily learning who is out there, it might be book’ aimed at readers from age 11. relatable aesthetic. Illustrators are taking useful to see the landscape of children’s Latimer’s cover creates just the kind of digital drawing to all kinds of places and illustration as broadly being divided into magic world that his novel and this genre much of it is edgy and very creative. four ‘looks’. The boundaries blur and of illustration asks for. I am personally very proud of the work smudge between these styles, but it is The second style category I call that Loyiso Mkize and Clyde Beech have a good starting point. I am also going to ‘classical’. Iconic of this broad description done in creating a local super hero in the focus on the books that these illustrators is one of our multi-award winners form of Kwezi. My little boy has read all have graced the pages of, rather then give and much loved classical illustration, the episodes many times and awaits any you an overview of each illustrator’s work. Nicky Daly who, often, also writes the new ones with anticipation. Kwezi started The first of these is what comes to stories he illustrates. Nicky has created long ago to do what the Black Panther mind first when we think of the world of beloved characters such as Jamella and movie attempted, in creating a super hero children: ‘whimsy and magic’: Flying cats; Thoko whom our children can own and use that is African with an African identity that talking fish; mermaids and make-believe as dress-up children can emulate. icons – I know Another superstar of digital drawing my little girl is Mogau Kekana his work for Refiloe Moahloli’s Yes Yanga! – a wonderful tale about a boy who learns to play cricket in the township streets and then progresses to the national team – is lively and fun with a very distinctive and well-developed style. Look out for that one if you have not had the pleasure yet.

Bookmark Issue 100 6 APRIL – JUNE 2020 Who doesn’t love a simplified, colourful Nontshohokweni and Mathabo Tlali The dominant children’s character is still pop image? The Golden Boabab Prize, illustrated by the team Chantelle and white and privileged, we see this in the which recognises African writers and Burgen Thorne. Wanda comes to life in books promoted in our large bookstores illustrators of children’s literature, bright, simplified pages that still contain and in Disney characters that our children chose to honor the illustrations by Toby the detail necessary to create a whole come to love and emulate. Newsome for Portia Dery’s Gogo’s List world that we get sucked into. Lebohang But with the ground-swell of interest (Jacana Media Children). This, for me, is Masango and Masego Morulane worked in indigenous knowledge, stories and a local example of pop-style illustration in a similar look is Mpumi’s Magic Beads. pictures, young illustrators are giving us looks – here there are elements of the Like Wanda, an award winner, Mpumi is a images that are immediately relatable digital and the trace of the hand. In this girl in bold colours and just enough detail as South African. These are the kinds of genre, the most characteristic features to draw us in. characters and pictures that I want my are the flat planes of bright colors and The most exciting trend for me however, children to grow up with: where their own simplified shapes. One of my favorites is not in style of illustration, but where reality is being affirmed by the multitude here is by author and illustrator Refiloe the iconography of children’s illustration of talent that blossoms in our local Moahloli for How many ways can you is changing in step with new narratives of illustrators. say hello? There is a simplification living in contemporary South Africa. There Cobi Labuscagne without losing the depth of field that are now organisations calling for mother- CEO of Artlogic, co-founder of the FNB can add so much nuance to a children’s tongue reading, multilingual literature Joburg Art Fair and writer of the recently book. Another favorite of mine in this engagement and a documentation of released children’s book, ‘Explore! style is Wanda written by both Sihle the everyday lives of people of color. Awesome South African Artists’ ▾ Features The old book smell …

do not read novels Now, looking at the shelves of exercise ‘Peopleanymore in this books and boxes of pens and staples, place. They watch television or are on I realise how time has passed. It even Facebook or WhatsApp.’ Mrs Violet seems absurd that I had half hoped I Sowazi is sitting behind the counter of her might find the book I have been looking stationery shop on the ground floor of the for since my return to my home town a few former Transkei Development Corporation months back. building in York Road, Mthatha in the During a long sojourn in Pretoria and As soon as I opened the door of the Eastern Cape. Cape Town I had read K Sello Duiker’s old library building, the old book smell She is the owner of Easy Reach Thirteen Cents. I was enchanted by it but hit me and the magic memories welled Stationers, a space roughly the size of I lack a copy. I have discovered the joys up, vivid and almost overpowering. But two medium sized living rooms. The half of re-reading all the books in my personal a quick glance around and I sobered up lit interior is taken up with shelves of library and now long to read Duiker’s immediately. The place had changed but all types of school stationery and office book in the light of my own experience of … had not changed at the same time. The writing paraphernalia. Half the back wall the stark contrast between Cape Town’s lights were brighter, the library staff more is lined by magazines and a few copies of extraordinary beauty and dark underbelly. numerous, younger, and noisy. Yet the the local newspapers, including the old Before Mrs Sowazi’s shop, I had begun wooden shelves were still there after all Daily Dispatch, which for decades covered with the city libraries. One Saturday those years. The books … the books were both the former Transkei and East London. morning I found myself, breathless with the same old books except there were There are no books on the thin shelves. anticipation, outside the entrance of what fewer of them. They were shabby and ‘It’s a generational thing. I used to sell is probably the oldest municipal library in dusty. Less than 10 books were new. fiction and non-fiction books regularly, the city, perhaps even the region. I soon realised that the many school especially to people who were visiting It was a fitting return to a place which kids sitting outside and inside the place relatives, and white tourists. Mthatha was had launched my lifelong ‘career’ as a had not come for the books on the shelves the capital of the Republic of Transkei reader and later as writer. My mother’s but for the space to do their school then,’ she explains to me. sister was a black belt karateka who homework (and the adults either for the I knew this place so well in my youth. became notorious around town after Daily Dispatch or to fill in application It was filled with all kinds of books: beating a man in a street fight – the guy forms for jobs). I saw that to ask for school textbooks and set books, comics, had dared to pinch her bum or something. Duiker’s book would be unnecessary. photo-stories, etc. In fact I am certain that I was 11 years old when my notorious aunt To be fair, for a long time municipalities I bought my first proper book here, paid took out membership for me at the local have continued to fund libraries, even with my own hard earned money – The library. I have sometimes wondered, had though they have no mandate to do so. Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. it not been for her, how my life would have In terms of the Constitution, provincial turned out. government is responsible for public ▸ Bookmark Issue 100 7 APRIL – JUNE 2020 libraries, which includes the purchasing the nearby Walter Sisulu University. Again and writing culture, but we must change of new books for these libraries. But there no luck. The only copy of Thirteen Cents that. Call on me anytime you need help.’ is simply not enough – and appropriate was 500 kilometres away in Port Elizabeth. Two: starting a Facebook campaign for a – books from the Eastern Cape’s The less said about the university library, copy of Thirteen Cents. Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and the better. Mandla Zibi Culture (DSRAC). Several setbacks later, I am now Mandla is a freelance writer who has Next I tried the bookshops. There are pondering two options. One: appealing worked for the SABC and community radio as a reporter and copy writer. He was also only two bookshops that sell fiction and to a lecturer at WSU’s English Department a government marketing communications non-fiction in Mthatha, both branches of who, when I mentioned my idea for a local writer. He spent several years at Exclusive Van Schaik. One in town and the other at book club, told me ‘We are not a reading Books as bookseller and administrator. ▾ Features Books finding readers … added value for readers to buy books from authors ‘The duty of a writer is to write!’ I stated As a writer and get autographs. a couple of years ago. The basis for this whose debut Without assertion was that authors are not book novel, When romanticising the merchants. Their preoccupation should be a Man Cries self-publishing and the vocation of writing and leave the rest (2007), is set distribution, one is to other role players in the industry. This is in Grahamstown acutely aware that not more ideal than realistic. (now Makhanda), all authors have capital to it was logical that the publish, nor do they have the he book sector, like any other industry, book is accessible to my fellow residents. tenacity to travel with their books where Tis dynamic and constantly changes. I asked a local stationery shop to stock my ever they go. Hence we receive orders via This also means business models need book especially during the National Arts email or social media, and pay for courier to be reviewed regularly to align with Festival, which brings throngs of people to services, which take three to five working the latest developments. This is best the town. They referred me to the regional days to deliver books anywhere in South demonstrated in the bookselling business office in Port Elizabeth. I duly called the Africa. where the author, the publisher and regional office, which referred me to the The conventional bookstore approach the bookseller have become one. The national office in Johannesburg. is dependent on traditional markets and functions of the various role players along After numerous calls to various offices, these are not growing at any significant the book value chain overlap and some I realised that my efforts were doomed rate (if not dwindling). Conversely, will soon collapse. to fail with this particular chain store. I the hand selling method may not be The traditional bookseller is under decided to approach some of the popular sustainable without compromising other serious threat as markets continue to grocery stores in my hometown, hoping aspects of one’s life. change and there are more efficient ways that non-book buyers will see the book Virtual bookstores might just be the of trading without having a fixed location. and be interested in buying. After several ideal neutral ground to support the Everyone can interact directly with emails, phone calls and lots of cajoling, I various business approaches. In the fast potential markets, advertise their wares once again hit a brick wall. evolving landscape, where the physical and take orders from customers online via I started buying books from my location will soon be of no significance, social media, email and business sites. publishers and selling them directly ‘access’ rather than ‘location’ should be The future of bookselling is about books to customers. After years of buying, the operative word for bookselling. finding readers, as opposed to readers marketing and selling my own books, One should not be made to choose one going to the stores to find books. I began to ask, ‘why do I need other method over the other. We must embrace The role of the traditional bookstore is players if I can do everything on my own?’ methods that work to create a reading compounded by the huge mark-ups on The conventional way of publishing and nation and develop book markets. The book prices, the consignment agreements bookselling cuts the royalty cheque four bookselling enterprise is an experimental that take months before they are paid off ways, and the author gets the smallest project that ought to be modified along and lack of marketing for specific titles. piece of the cake. the way. Divergent business methods can As a result, there are more South African I self-published my latest book, Red coexist and together produce an effective authors who resort to self-publishing, Apple Dreams & Other Stories (2019), bookselling model. marketing and hand selling. This thus taking full ownership of the means of Siphiwo Mahala sentiment was partly captured in a post production and benefits. This also gives Siphiwo is an award-winning novelist by poet Mphutlane wa Bofelo, who wrote one a clear view of the whole value chain. (Yakhal’ Indoda) , short story writer, on Facebook: ‘We are selling books from I keep my books in the boot of my car so I playwright (The House of Truth) and the bag and the boot because we can’t can sell whenever there is an opportunity literary critic. Mahala holds a doctoral put our fate in the hands of big publishing to interact with potential buyers. I have degree in English Literature from the companies and commercial booksellers.’ sold most of my books this way. There is University of South Africa. ▾ Bookmark Issue 100 8 APRIL – JUNE 2020 Awards

“Rapunzel”. In 2018, her third non-fiction they could teach those listening and work Hardly Working, a travel memoir, was watching something new.’ published by Black Letter Media. The first theme was ‘Sex’. This came She has been a contributor to a wide about ‘because I wanted to be playful range of newspapers and magazines, and make people realise that literature including The Observer/The Guardian, in Africa is not always so serious and Sunday Independent, City Press, Mail & can be playful (even where we have Guardian, La Republica, Open Society, literary fiction).’ The Sunday Times, African Review, New The second season’s theme, ‘What I Statesman, True Love, Marie Claire, Real, Wish You’d Ask Me’ suited the eclectic Juice, OpenSpace, Wordsetc, Baobab, group of very experienced writers, Zukiswa Wanner Shape, Oprah, Elle, Juice, Guernica, including prominent African writers like Afropolitan and Forbes Africa. Her writing Maaza Mengiste, Fred Khumalo, Chris Breaking barriers is also included in the 2019 anthology Abani, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Shadreck New Daughters of Africa, edited by Chikoti, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, ukiswa Wanner, prolific journalist, Margaret Busby. Mu~koma wa Ngũgĩ, Jennifer Nansubuga Zessayist, writer, publisher and curator She is a founding member of the Makumbi, Mona Eltahawy, Nii Ayikwei became Africa’s first woman to win the ReadSA initiative, a campaign encouraging Parkes, Sulaiman Addonia, Chike Frankie prestigious Goethe Medal. South Africans to read South African Edozien, and Lola Shoneyin, among others ‘Your self-image as an “African writer” works. Zukiswa also sat on the pan-African The theme for season 3 is ‘Future, means writing beyond national borders literary initiative, Writivism’s Board of Present, Past’. It’s particularly significant and at the same time allowing the Trustees until September 2016. She is a that season 3 kicks off on Africa Day. diversity of African cultures to flow into regular participant at international literary Hemley Boum from Cameroon, Ondjaki your artistic work. Her detailed knowledge events and has conducted workshops for from Angola, Ishmael Beah from Sierra of South African literature as well as her young writers in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Leone, Mona Eltahawy from Egypt, and differentiated understanding of regional Denmark, Germany and Western Kenya. Napo Masheane and Fred Khumalo from discourses and African female identity In 2015 Wanner was also one of three South Africa are just some of the names to make her an internationally sought-after judges of the Pan-African literary prize be seen. expert and a role model for an entire for book-length fiction, the Etisalat Prize Writers from 14 countries streaming generation of African writers,’ said the jury for Literature, and she was the African either on Instagram or Facebook in on Zukiswa Wanner’s selection. juror for the Commonwealth Short Story English, French, or Portuguese over eight The award ceremony will take place on Prize 2017. She has also been the founder days under the festival theme. 28 August, Goethe’s birthday, in Weimar, and curator of Artistic Encounters in The Afrolit Sans Frontières Virtual Germany. Nairobi, Kenya. Literary Festival, an initiative by and for Zukiswa, born of a South African father She was one of 66 writers to write a writers of African origin, started in March and Zimbabwean mother in Zambia is contemporary response to the Bible, the as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic author of several novels including The works were staged at the Bush Theatre international lockdown. Season 2, like Madams (2006), Behind Every Successful and at the Westminster Abbey, London, in the first edition, features some of the Man (2008), Men of the South (2010) October 2011. leading names in African letters today with shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Accolades, awards and achievements curation by Maaza Mengiste and festival Prize (Africa Region) and the Herman belie the inquisitive, innovative and even founder Zukiswa Wanner. It sees 16 writers Charles Bosman Prize for English literature impudent side of this gifted writer. She from 14 countries streaming either on and in 2014, London Cape Town Joburg, initiated and has curated the Afrolit Sans Instagram or Facebook from 13 cities in which won the K Sello Duiker Memorial Frontières Virtual Literary Festival. In her English, French, and Portuguese over eight Literary Award in 2015. own words: days under the festival theme.” In 2010, she co-authored two works ‘The festival came about early one In 2018, Wanner set up her publishing of non-fiction: with South African morning as I was chatting with my friend, company, Paivapo, in partnership photographer Alf Kumalo A Prisoner’s Nigerian writer Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, at with her friend and businessperson Home, a biography on the first Mandela the beginning of some of the continental Nomavuso Vokwana, with a focus on house 8115 Vilakazi Street, and L’Esprit COVID-19 lockdowns/curfews. I thought marketing African literature in the du Sport with French photographer Amelie that since most people were not at work, Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Debray. Wanner is co-editor of the African- it could be a great time to put some focus African regions. Asian short-story anthology Behind the on literature by Africans, as we would have Wanner currently lives in Nairobi, Kenya, Shadows (2012) with Rohini Chowdhury. In a captive audience. So, I sent WhatsApp having visited for the first time in 2008 and addition Wanner has written two children’s texts to my writer friends across the moved there three years later. books, Jama Loves Bananas and Refilwe continent, and the first ones to agree Lee Maddeux – an African retelling of the fairy tale became part of the festival and I figured ▾

Bookmark Issue 100 9 APRIL – JUNE 2020 Features Mzansi Lockdown by Mandla Zibi hat did you read during lockdown? answered. Simply, no one was actually reading anything remotely W I predict that from now on this will become one of resembling a book. They were glued to their screens, mesmerised the most profound questions of our time, perhaps of all time. by the virus. Everything else came to a dead halt. Then it struck Up there with ‘what is the meaning of life?’, ‘Is the universe me. Ask the writers. No writer was ever going to risk reputation expanding?’ or ‘How deep is your love?’ So, a month and a meltdown and admit to a failure to read. Brilliant. half ago I decided to scoop all the other book hacks in this I present a selection of writers blackmailed by me into telling country by asking it. Which disappointed me, because no one us about their reading activity during the Great Mzansi Lockdown.

e start with Helen Moffett red Khumalo (Touch My Blood) one of Mzansi’s literary delights, W(co-writer of the very Fwas seemingly one of the successful Girl Walks Into a Bar busiest writers AND readers and other titles in the series) during the lockdown. ‘I wrote who is our Covid-19 hero of the more than I normally do. The piece. She is slowly recovering Sunday Times asked me to write from a near fatal encounter a short story with a Covid-19 with Covid-19 itself. Despite her theme (published two weeks ordeal, which she has movingly later). Then Melinda Ferguson, documented on Facebook publisher at MF Books, and elsewhere, she had the commissioned me to write generosity of heart to pen a few a longer piece (also themed words in response to our question. Helen Moffett around Covid-19), which will ‘I found that being ill with Covid-19 during be included in an upcoming Fred Khumalo lockdown profoundly affected what I could read. Usually, I read book called Lockdown Diaries the way I breathe: but now I was having difficulties with both. I to be published as an e-book (also planned for publication in the could absorb very little, and the only books I could manage were next two weeks). And then I was commissioned by the Gothenburg either Young Adult fantasy (NOT my standard choice) or so-called Book Fair in Sweden to do two readings on their Instagram chick lit. In the first category, I loved South African writer Mary account. I have also been doing daily readings (my own initiative) Watson’s The Wickerlight (Celtic myth wrapped up in modern in isiZulu and English, for children on Facebook. The books I have family feuds) and US writer Naomi Novik’s Uprooted (evil trees read since the advent of lockdown are Parcel of Death (a biography and feminist message). In the second, Being Shelley by Cape of Onkgopotse Tiro, written by his nephew Gaongalelwe Tiro); Town’s own Qarnita Loxton (bubbly, but with grit) and Irish writer Athol Williams’s autobiography Pushing Boulders; I also started Marian Keyes’s Grown Ups, ("you’ll laugh, you’ll cry" writing) reading You Will Be Safe Here, a historical novel by Damian Barr, about a dysfunctional but entertaining family.’ and a powerful polemic on migration and racism called This Land Bookmark readers, I’m sure, will join me to wish her all the best, is Our Land by Suketu Mehta. I am still reading the two. Lockdown and can’t wait to hear she is back at her desk, hale and hearty. has been helpful in that there are no distractions. Oh, another change: I am watching more TV than ever. ’ve always thought Mike Nicol was a tough old bird who Looks like a good combination of business and Icannot stand paparazzi like me, but I was wrong. His response pleasure there Fred! began with the most soothing words a journalist could hear: ‘No problem. My reading stayed pretty much as normal – the hris Townsend, in fact his proper handle is Fr Chris Townsend, excellent The New Spymasters by Stephen Grey, then a Henning Cmay be the parish Pastor at a Mankell (The Troubled Man) that I had been meaning to read for Roman Catholic church in Pretoria, years, followed by a re-reading of The American by Martin Booth. but he is technically a writer, isn’t Strangely enough I also I re-read Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar he? He writes his own homilies after and Christopher Marlowe’s, Dr Faustus all. Despite his many responsibilities – both written during times when (Roman Catholic priests are busy) plagues were not uncommon. Neither he managed to get some heavy play features a plague but there are reading done during the lockdown. plenty of references to a plague on you ‘I have read more fiction and non- when tempers are raised. There were a fiction. Completed a few. Am now number of manuscripts that came in for reading Tom Holland’s Dominion, reading during this time as well.' At this Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the bodies, Fr Chris Townsend point I couldn’t resist asking, ‘Anything completing Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s interesting among the manuscripts?’ His Gangster State as well as quite a few Podcasts.’ Mike Nicol response: ‘All I can say is yes and no. Sorry, if I told you the publishers would probably kneecap me.’ Short and sweet. I wonder what parishioners think of Fr Chris’ Ah, I just thought that was so cool! telegraphic style.

Bookmark Issue 100 10 APRIL – JUNE 2020 Pamela Moeng with her grandchildren

y friend Pamela Moeng and I come a long way, having worked as government spin Mdoctors several lifetimes ago. She is currently at home in the US doing what, I am not in a position to tell, but she sent these lines: I have been reading more online newspaper articles and no books (Gasp!). I have been working on my Spanish listening skills so have been watching Spanish language movies and television series. I want to improve my Spanish because when this ends, if I survive it, I’d like to visit Spain and Mexico. Besides, in a lockdown, what is better than eye-candy? I do have a copy of Isabel Allende’s Paula in Spanish that I began reading, dictionary at my side. I have renewed respect for my SA friends who did degrees at English instruction institutions when English was their second, third or even fourth or fifth language. Hats off to them!” No judgement now! She’s reading Allende, in Spanish!! ▾ Awards

Jarred Thompson’s short story Find is a wry, subversive take on suburbia a delightfully queer treatment of 'Good Help Is Hard to Find' was and its secrecies, made all the more everyday life, peppered with humour announced the winner of the powerful by a tight narrative, strong voice and warmth. The close observations of and sensitive characterisation.’ the little details of domestic life, and the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2020 Good Help is Hard to Find tells the story relationships herein, were a joy to read,’ on 27 March 2020. of a house help Pamela and her employer the panel added. Mrs Devilliers who is struggling with the Jarred is a 27 year old English graduate Afritondo, a new platform that aims to affection she feels for another woman. from Alabama University, a poet, writer, connect with and tell the stories of African ‘What the judges loved about the a blogger, novelist and playwright. He and black minority populations across the story was its unhurried style and the has been published in Typecast Literary globe, this year announced a new award manner in which the author made a Magazine, Type House Literary Magazine, called the Afritondo Short Story Prize. story so lush in event feel lean. The The Best New African Poets Anthology of The theme for the first edition, judged author skilfully amplified the comfort 2016, New Contrast Literary Journal and by Megan Ross (Chair), Gloria Mwaniga, of routine, trust, and laughter, offering was longlisted for The Sol Plaatje Award and Kelechi Njoku, had the and Anthology of Poetry. theme, ‘Love’. Jarred Thompson is a queer, Dr Allwell Uwazuruike, co-editor coloured writer, researcher and of Afritondo, said: ‘Our aim for the academic. He has published competition was to connect with poetry, fiction and non-fiction in African and black minority writers multiple publications, including from across the globe to tell their the forthcoming Living While own authentic stories. We chose Feminist Anthology, to be love as a theme because we published in 2020 by Kwela wanted something that was both Books and compiled by Jennifer ordinary and special. We wanted Thorpe. His fiction publications a theme that would resonate with include The Johannesburg Review most people and we wanted to of Books, ImageOutWrite (2018), gauge the various perspectives of and The Heart of The Matter (2019) love from across African and black among others. His short story, communities.’ Changing I’s, was long-listed for The award received 421 entries the Commonwealth Short Story from 19 countries from across the Prize and his poetry and fiction continent and on 5 February, with was shortlisted for the 2019 Gerald the help of a team of readers, Kraak Award and Anthology. He the judging panel announced has recently won the inaugural a longlist of 21 outstanding 2020 Afritondo Short Story Prize. entries. The shortlist of six was When he is not writing and reading announced on 6 March before the he practices yoga, binges on TV winner was revealed on 27 March. shows and has gotten back into Commenting on the winning playing video games on Xbox. story by Jarred Thompson, the Jarred Tompson panel said: ‘Good Help is Hard to

Bookmark Issue 100 11 APRIL – JUNE 2020 Profile

ngela Makholwa Moabelo is a South man approached AAfrican author born and raised in the Angela to write a East Rand township of Tembisa. book on his life From an early age, Angela Makholwa story. After months dreamt of becoming a storyteller. Her love of visiting the for the written word saw her first short maximum security story being published at the age of 13 in prison in order to the popular youth publication, Upbeat gather research Magazine. From that moment, the bug had material for the bitten. Angela went on to graduate as a biography, Angela Journalism major at Rhodes University and decided to abandon practiced as a journalist for several years. the project due to As a young journalist, Angela was professional and concerned about the scourge of crime in personal reasons. South Africa and focused her energies on The serial killer covering crime stories in the townships of started sending Johannesburg. In the late 1990’s, South disturbing letters Africa’s East Rand townships were gripped to her postal by a wave of violent rapes and killings of address, which young women. A pattern emerged that led further exacerbated police to believe that a serial killer was her decision to behind these crimes. Like many crime terminate the reporters, Angela followed this story with project. interest until the killer was finally arrested A few years later, Angela Makholwa and convicted of serial homicide. she decided to resuscitate the manuscript He was given multiple life sentences in the form of a fictional novel, which was and went on to serve his jail term at the published by Pan Macmillan in 2007 under of a transactional relationship. Although Pretoria Maximum Security Prison. The the title Red Ink. The book was the first not a uniform representation of the South African crime thriller with an African mindset of all blesses, The Blessed Girl female protagonist. is an interesting delve into the intricacies In order to purge herself of the demons involved in this unsaid partnership of of ageing that were haunting her, she transactional sex,’ Lethabo Mailula (Mail devoted this episode of her life to penning & Guardian). her next novel, The 30th Candle – a book Angela has gained critical and popular that revolves around four university acclaim for her contribution to African friends who deal differently with the literature and has been nominated milestone of turning 30. for several literary awards. The crime The Black Widow Society followed in and women’s fiction writer has been 2013. The book is the realisation of a invited to speak at a number of local dream to write a crime suspense novel and international literary events and that will hopefully challenge and entertain is committed to the advancement of the reader … while giving them a sleepless literature on the African continent. night or two. She works with a number of South She was one of the Time of the Writer African writers to encourage the love of 2019s 13 festival participants. reading amongst township and rural youth Angela Makholwa Moabelo’s novel through various initiatives, including The Blessed Girl is on Comedy Women in Read SA, a non-profit organisation. Print Prize shortlist which was announced Angela runs digital marketing and on 1 June. Her book was selected among communications agency Britespark female best sellers such as Candice Communications and is a Non-Executive Carty-Williams, Jeanette Winterson, Abbi Director at a legal insurance company, Waxman and Nina Stibbe to name but a LIPCO Law For All. few. The winners will be announced on She is married with two children and 14 September. a husband. In her spare time, she loves ‘The novel confronts the realities of dancing like Michael Jackson, jumping out what it means to be on the receiving end of planes and other fast moving objects. ▾

Bookmark Issue 100 12 APRIL – JUNE 2020 Features Bookdealers and book dealing

ookdealers deals in out-of-print and encountered many Bcollectable books, some remainders thefts by both and a small number of full price books. employees and It all started in 1988 when I began customers, but selling books at a flea market in Edenvale eventually they slip on Saturday mornings while working full up and get caught. time as a financial manager. A friend, who We have had a I used to bump into at book sales, kept number who bring Photo by Tbel Abuseridze/Unsplash nagging me to come to the Edenvale flea in their own pencil market with my duplicates which would and eraser, erase our price, and write in reserved book shelf was stuffing books turn it into a ‘Mecca’ for book buyers. the price they want to pay. In the most into her big bag. Who would suspect Eventually, after much begging, I agreed recent incident, in late 2019, we caught a well-dressed, articulate and friendly and spent a Friday evening sorting out who we thought was a charming ‘friend’ middle-aged woman? Sergeant Soekoe, a duplicate paperbacks from my collection of Bookdealers changing prices. He had book lover and customer himself, came to and pricing them between 60 and 90 been selling us books for shop credit so the rescue and a sting operation was set cents. I then put them spine up in beer that he could acquire other books, but up – our con-woman spent the weekend trays to take to the market. I well recall once a fellow dealer had warned us about in jail but was released on bail on Monday that first Saturday morning as I spent more him, we began to keep an eye out. Our morning, never to be seen again. It turned on delicious chicken pies from the Dutch vigilant Blubird Branch Manager noticed out that there were warrants of arrest for bakery than we took in sales. him, with his back to the fraud for her from all over the country! But I was hooked and that’s counter, moving his hand in a We have our challenges. how Bookdealers began. One of the most suspicious manner. He The weak economy has led to fewer We currently have four was erasing the last zero on customers with fewer rands. The rise of challenges we shops in Joburg and a a R900 first edition Jean Paul social media means that less people website from which we face in selling Sartre and when he brought read as more people spend more time on trade online. out of print books it to the counter it was R90. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others. Sadly, we can no longer is theft She immediately phoned me, The internet has also had a negative effect sell our books for 60 cents and my business partner and on business. and need to use an algorithm I sped over and confronted Recently a long-standing customer to price them. Reputable him. He completely outright came to the shop looking for books on book dealers throughout the world pay denied it, but he hasn’t been back since. the ‘tribes’ for his son-in-law who was a percentage of the retail price when He is now trading at one of Joburg’s most involved in a related business. I showed purchasing books, the percentage varying popular flea markets and to my chagrin him the standard book on tribal myths, according to several factors but rarely is to date still selling books he ‘acquired’ Penny Miller’s Myths and Legends of exceeding 40%. The main consideration from us. What makes it even worse is that Southern Africa, which includes the is the length of time it will take for a book it was I who suggested that he trade at creation myth of all our tribes. He really to sell. Basically, the price of the book is this market. liked the book but refused to buy it determined by condition and demand. Some years ago, we succeeded in because the dust wrapper had a few Accurate judgment comes only after many having a book thief arrested. A middle- closed tears and he, a pernickety first years of trading experience. aged well-dressed lady was coming into edition collector, wasn’t happy with the The most popular topics for South our Bryanston branch (now permanently condition. The next time I saw him he African collectors tend to be Africana – in closed after a fire) and reserving books. proudly told me that he had purchased particular Exploration and early travel, She would return the following week and a better copy online even though it Tribal History, Natural History and Art. purchase perhaps one of the reserved was more expensive. Pre-internet days There is also a demand for books on the books, putting the rest back – and this could not have occurred, but now Wars i.e. Anglo-Boer War, Anglo-Zulu then reserve more. I was phoned by a previously artificially scarce books are War, Eastern Cape Frontier Wars, the two fellow book dealer to say he had been relatively commonplace. world wars and the local border wars. purchasing books from a very friendly But all is not lost, we too have a website Other items of interest include Early Cape woman, but he suspected they were which is showing strong growth. History, Hunting, Rhodesiana, Geology coming from Bookdealers as every week We believe fervently in books and will and Johannesburg. she would bring a few more and he continue to do so, so if you’re interested One of the challenges we face in selling recognised my handwriting in a number of in collecting or augmenting your collection out of print books is theft. the books. What this friendly con-woman please contact us. Over the 30-odd years I have been was doing when our trusting manager www.bookdealers.co.za in the business I have endured and went to the back to put the books on the Doron Locketz ▾ Bookmark Issue 100 13 APRIL – JUNE 2020 Tribute Elsa Joubert, Elsa Joubert 1922 – 2020

timeless lessons Olwagen, starring Clementine Mosimane lsa published her first book,Water in an outstanding performance. Een Woestyn, more than 60 years ago. Published in three parts, her auto She travelled through Uganda, Sudan biography –’n Wonderlike geweld (A and Egypt, following the Nile River from Wonderful Violence), Reisiger (Traveller) source to sea with a camera, a typewriter and Spertyd (Deadline) – is a journalist’s and a few traveller’s cheques. 'I wanted to provocative journey through 85 years of travel alone because you’re so much more rich African and South African history dependent and more receptive when you’re on your own,' she Her final book,Spertyd (Deadline) was published when she wrote in that first book. Elsa was a travel writing pioneer, visiting was 94 years old, and the title a reference to her impending places in Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Far East. final deadline – is an introspective, unsentimental and often Born in 1922 in Paarl, Elsa Joubert loved the Afrikaans humorous look at growing old. language. The use of her beloved language as the vehicle of As one of South Africa’s foremost literary voices, she has also apartheid was for her an abomination. Her vehement opposition had the opportunity to meet some interesting people, including to apartheid in her private life and in public led to isolation and the late Nelson Mandela. Madiba greeted her in Afrikaans and rejection by many white Afrikaans speakers. Later in life she felt said, 'Dis so ’n eer om die skrywer van Die staf van Monomotapa that instead of merely opposing the system, she should have (The rod of Monomotapa) te ontmoet.' He’d read her Mozambique joined the struggle more actively. But actually she had done travelogue many times while imprisoned on Robben Island. When plenty especially in her writing. she was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga (silver) by President She was an influential novelist, and enriched local literature Thabo Mbeki, Madiba told her 'I would have known nothing about with award-winning books like Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena my new wife’s country if I hadn’t read your book'. (The Nomadic life of Poppie Nongena), was translated into 13 Perhaps, it is apt that Elsa Joubert’s final article, published just languages and was named one of the top 100 books to come days before her death in Die Burger, was a plea from the heart out of Africa. It tells the story of a young woman’s long struggle on behalf of everyone who, like her at the time, finds themselves against South Africa’s segregation policies and forced removals, living in old age homes and are banned by our government while trying to keep her growing family together. It is a gut- from visits by their families, even as the dusk of life descends. wrenching story, told simply and crisply. It was adapted to a stage Hauntingly, she tells of how their only wish was to touch and see production and Nomsa Nene in the title role just blew audiences and be with their loved ones, and begs an uncaring government away. It was made into a magnificent movie by Christiaan to care about its most vulnerable. ▾ Jeanne Goosen, her voice will never be silent

eanne Goosen has been described as one of our country’s most – Doris’s daughter, Gertie – the story explores the universal Jauthentic, original and fearless authors – one of Afrikaans big yearning for love and romance. literary giants. When Jeanne Goosen published her first poetry ’n Pawpaw vir My Darling was turned into a film by Koos Roets anthology – ‘n Uil vlieg weg – in 1971 she paved the way for and stars acting heavyweights like Sandra Prinsloo and Brümilda female writers in a previously male dominated industry. van Rensburg and was a box-office hit locally. Jeanne was 'It is with great sadness that we heard of the death of the passionate about a variety of topics and explored the mysteries Afrikaans writer, Jeanne Goosen. Jeanne was one of our country’s of the natural world, as well as human emotions, in her writing. It most iconic writers, who broke through boundaries with her is her shrewd judgement of situations and her handling of them acclaimed work Ons is nie almal so nie. This was an important with acute irony and humour which really matters. text in voicing the emotional damage that was imprinted on many She has left South Africans by the apartheid system,' Western Cape Minister a rich legacy in of Cultural Affairs and Sport, Anroux Marais said in a statement to her work, of her the media. own sharp insight Marais added: 'While Jeanne certainly marched to her own into the human drum, she was an important voice in speaking up for those who condition that had their rights violated – she wrote about the experiences of has earned her a women in a time when they were seen as silent voices.' prominent place in It was the award-winning book, Ons is nie almal so nie (We’re African literature. not all like that) published in 1990 that made her a household ▾ Jeanne Goosen name. The book was translated into English by André P. Brink (1938 – 2020) and tells the story of Doris van Greunen in the 1950s as she tries to break out of her world during the implementation of racist of Photo: Sharief apartheid laws in South Africa. Told through the eyes of a child Jaffer/Gallo Images

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