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Announcing the longlists for SA’s most prestigious annual literary awards for non-fiction and the fiction award in partnership with Exclusive Books. Here are the picks of SA's literature published between December 2021 and December 2022.

This is a compilation of great South African books published in 2022, just in case you've missed them.

“Written with brutal honesty and humility through the lens of a green-eyed ‘coloured’ in a country where Lagardien has never belonged, the book gives us a powerful and searing portrait of the annihilating consequences of race and identity politics as it courses through the apartheid era and the moral decay of racial essentialism in present-day South Africa.” – Malcolm Ray, The Tyranny of Growth  Too White to be Coloured, Too Coloured to be Black is a dazzling h...

29 May 2022 - One evening about three decades ago — in what seems another world, and probably was — a friend joined me and my wife-to-be for a supper that, despite the gulf of time that has opened between then and now, retains its simple delight in my mind.

Among the Franschhoek Literary Festival events aimed at writers and would-be writers, in the form of sessions dealing with writing and publishing, are memoir-related discussions led by Melinda Ferguson.

Ismail Lagardien’s memoir is a spirited determination not to be defined by the melanin level of his skin.

Racial politics and the rise of ethnic pride are on the agenda for the Sunday Times Politics Weekly this week.

Ismail Lagardien argues that non-racialism is an ANC public relations stunt, but his view needs to be taken further

Ismail Lagardien focuses on the anti-apartheid movement’s advancement of the concept, but it needs to be taken further

This year the Franschhoek Literary Festival (FLF) returns to in-person events after two years of a virtual festival.