Writing the Afropolitan City

Writing the Afropolitan City

Wednesday 28 September, 17:00 – 19:00
Malmö University, Orkanen Library, Room C528, Nordenskiöldsgatan 10, 211 19 Malmö

Zoom: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/69795782702

Malmö University and the Conviviality and Contamination project are delighted to bring three of South Africa’s leading literary voices to Malmö: Masande Ntshanga, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen and Ivan Vladislavic, hosted by Professor Oscar Hemer. The evening will begin with some refreshments and an opportunity to mingle, followed by an informal programme of readings and conversation.

Speakers

Masande Ntshanga is a novelist, short story writer, poet, editor and publisher. He is the author of two novels, The Reactive (2014) and Triangulum (2019). His most recent publication is an experimental collection of poetry and prose called Native Life in the Third Millennium (2020). He lectures in Creative Writing at Rhodes University, edits the literary journal New Contrast, and runs an experimental press called Model See Media. He is the winner of the inaugural PEN International New Voices Award, a Betty Trask Award, a Fulbright Award, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, and a Bundanon Trust Award.

Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is a writer, editor, publisher and Associate Professor and Head of Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is the editor and co-founder of Fourthwall Books, and a former editor of Art South Africa magazine. She received her doctorate in literature at New York University as a Fulbright scholar in 2003, and her doctorate in creative writing from Wits in 2017. Her first novel, The Printmaker, won the Olive Schreiner Prize from the English Academy of South Africa, and her second novel, Notes on Falling, has just been launched.

Ivan Vladislavić is an author, editor and Distinguished Professor in the Creative Writing Department at Wits University. His books include the novels The Restless Supermarket, The Exploded View, Double Negative, and The Distance, and the story collections 101 Detectives and Flashback Hotel. He has also edited books on architecture and art, and often collaborates with artists and photographers. TJ/Double Negative, a joint project with photographer David Goldblatt, received the 2011 Kraszna-Krausz Award for best photography book. His work has also won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the Alan Paton Award, the University of Johannesburg Prize and Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction.

Attendance

This event follows on from an afternoon event launching the Conviviality and Contamination project, a collaborative project which brings together authors, artists and academics to explore new forms of writing. Please see the separate listing for this event.

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This programme is presented in collaboration with the Rethinking Democracy research platform (REDEM), the Communication for Development (ComDev) Masters course, and PARSE Journal (Platform for Artistic Research Sweden).