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Marlene van Niekerk
Marlene van Niekerk is a South African poet and short-story writer, as well as being author of the celebrated novels Triomf and Agaat (The Way of the Women). The Swan Whisperer, a collaboration with William Kentridge for the Cahiers Series, was published in 2015. She is Professor of Afrikaans and Dutch literature and Creative Writing at Stellenbosch University, and was a finalist for the Man International Booker Prize in 2015.

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January 2013

Car Wash

Patrick Langley

fiction

January 2013

He is sitting on the back seat of a car, somewhere in France. It’s a bright blue day, absurdly...

Feature

November 2017

Small White Monkeys

Sophie Collins

Feature

November 2017

Small white monkeys stretch around in the dirt beneath a tree but do not get dirty. They pick themselves...

Art

June 2015

Sisterhood

Chelsea Hogue

Art

June 2015

A woman appears onscreen. Her hair is short. While the film is black and white, by the colour gradations...

 

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