It’s always a little tough writing about the Golden Globes as a South African critic because local reviewers will have only watched around half of the films nominated. The Oscars are always easier as they end off the awards season and by then ...

Awards season is fully in swing following the nominations for the Golden Globes, one of the most highly profile awards along with the Oscars. The musical, La La Land, about dreams and dreamers in Los Angeles, leads with seven nominations, including ones ...

The Sellout by Paul Beatty has been named winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The 54-year-old is the first American author to win the prize in its 48-year history. US authors only became eligible in 2014. The ...

Singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan, has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature. Dylan had been given an outsiders chance, with Japanese novelist, Haruki Murakami and Kenyan writer, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the bookies’ favourites. The announcement has, frankly, caught me by surprise. ...

The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2016 has both a gender and racial balance. Three of the six nominees are men and three women. The list features an African-American, American-Iranian, and Canadian writer of Malaysian-Chinese parentage. So who are ...

South African writer, Lidudumalingani, has been awarded the prestigious Caine Prize for African writing. The winner was announced in Oxford in the UK on Tuesday night. The winning short story, Memories We Lost, was published in Incredible Journey: Stories That Move You (Burnet ...

  A book that explores the rape crisis in South Africa, and a story about the plight of South Africans in rural KwaZulu-Natal have won the two Sunday Times Literary Awards on Saturday night. Pumla Dineo Gqola’s shocking and hard-hitting ...

The famous children’s author and illustrator, Dr Seuss, wrote “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.” A love for reading starts at an early age (books were ...

A book about how a woman’s decision to become a vegetarian tears apart her marriage, has won the 2016 Man Booker International prize. Last night, South Korean author, Han Kang’s book The Vegetarian (Portobello Books) was named the winner of the £50 ...

South African author, Lidudumalingani Mqombothi, has made it on to the shortlist of five nominees for the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing. Mqombothi’s entry, Memories we Lost, was published in Incredible Journey: Stories That Move You (Burnet Media, South ...