André Brink

Next week, André will be reading from his work at the Gariep Kunstefees.

Friday, 4 September: WHAG Ouditorium at 1pm.

Saturday, 5 September: WHAG Ouditorium at 11am.

He will also join Willemien Brümmer and me for the launch of Touch: Stories of Contact during the annual Ladies Breakfast at the Festival on Thursday, 3 September.

For more information click here: Gariep Kunstefees

7 April, Die Neelsie, Langenhoven-sentrum, Jan van Riebeeckweg 217, Oudtshoorn, 7.30pm

8 April, Die Neelsie Teater, Langenhoven-sentrum, Jan van Riebeeckweg 217, Oudtshoorn, 7.30pm

The latest edition of the Groot Verseboek was launched last Friday at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town.

The following interview about the anthology appeared in today’s edition of Die Burger: “Louise Viljoen gesels met André P. Brink”

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Join André for the launch of the latest edition of the Groot Verseboek, the ultimate anthology of Afrikaans poetry, at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town this Friday, 21 November 2008, at 6pm.

For more details click here.

André will interview Willemien Brümmer at the launch of her debut collection of stories entitled Die dag toe ek my hare losgemaak het.

Date: Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Time: 6:00 PM for 6:30 PM

For further event details click here.
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André and I will be travelling to Windhoek at the end of March to take part in the following events:

On Monday, 31 March, at 11 am, André is giving a lecture on his novels at the Windhoek College of Education in Khomasdal (entrance is free).

On Wednesday, 2 April, at 8 pm, he will participate in a public discussion with Prof. André du Pisani about literature and history at the Warehouse Theatre (there is an admission fee of N$100).
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André’s latest book, Ander Lewens (Other Lives), a novel in three parts, is about to be published by Human & Rousseau. Please click here for the details of the official launch on 6 March 2008 at the Wordfees in Stellenbosch.

First article in a series of best-loved SA bookshops.

The PROTEA BOOKSHOP in Stellenbosch – “more than just a bookshop” – is one of five branches of the PROTEA family. (The other branches are in Potchefstroom, Nelspruit and Pretoria, which has two).

It opened to booklovers in June 2002 under the management of the acclaimed Afrikaans poet Louis Esterhuizen and his wife Marlise Joubert, also an award-winning writer and painter (see Stellenbosch Writers for their respective biographies).

If you are looking for textbooks, philosophy books, any Afrikaans poetry volume or older Afrikaans fiction titles, works by Nobel laureates (pictured!), books on history, especially the South African War, or literary and academic magazines – in short, good literature – this is the place to go.

If it is not on the shelf, every attempt will be made to find any title, even those out of print.
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