Angela Makholwa’s novel Critical But Stable was announced as the One Read offering for July 2021 on July 8, 2021. One Read is a mobile application, brought to you by Nigeria’s Sterling Bank and Ouida Books, aimed at promoting writers, publishers and other players in the African book industry to create a community of readers. […]
Angela Makholwa’s newest novel Critical But Stable launched physically on November 12 and virtually on November 17, 2020. Angela Makholwa is the author of the titles Red Ink (2007), The 30th Candle (2010) (our review), The Black Widow Society (2013) (our review), and The Blessed Girl (2017). The newest novel from the Johannesburg-resident is the […]
Angela Makholwa and Candice Carty-Williams are on the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2020 shortlist announced today, June 8, 2020. The Comedy Women in Print Prize is an award that celebrates humorous novels written by women published in the UK and Ireland. It was founded by award-winning comedian, writer, and actor Helen Lederer, in response […]
Angela Makholwa was the penultimate guest at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 3 from Johannesburg, South Africa on June 1, 2020. She was hosted by Zukiswa Wanner. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a virtual literary festival for writers of African origin, started as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic international lockdown. It has had two iterations with Season […]
Angela Makholwa’s novel The Blessed Girl is on Comedy Women in Print Prize longlist announced today, April 20, 2020. The Comedy Women in Print Prize is an award founded in 2019 to celebrate the funny women in the UK and Ireland. The longlist for 2020 has been announced and Marian Keyes, chair of judges in […]
Pan Macmillan South Africa announced on July 25, 2019, that Angela Makholwa’s third novel Black Widow Society is set to go into production for film in a few months. Angela Makholwa is the author of four novels in Red Ink (2007), The 30th Candle (2009) (our review), Black Widow Society (2013), and The Blessed Girl […]
The Time of the Writer 2019, curated by South African author Niq Mhlongo, took place in Durban, South Africa from March 13-16, 2019. The Time of the Writer literary festival has hosted some of the most iconic names in African and world literature in Durban, South Africa. The festival on the South African coast, organised […]
The guest list for the Time of the Writer 2019, running from March 12-16 in Durban, South Africa has been announced. The Time of the Writer, organised by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts, is set to make its way back to the coastal town of Durban, South Africa this March. The literary […]
South African author Angela Makholwa is set to co-feature at the final Goethe-Institut Nairobi’s Artistic Encounters on November 9th, 2017 with singer and actress Patricia Kihoro. The Artist Encounters is a project run by Goethe-Institut Nairobi curated by Zukiswa Wanner. The project involves artists of different genres having their arts communicating. There have been three […]
The South African Book Fair 2017 was hosted in Johannesburg from September 8-10. The festival theme was #OURSTORIES. It was a lit few days as some of the best known authors and others in the literary scene converged on Johannesburg for the South African Book Fair 2017. The list of the people see and interact […]
Angela Makholwa and Lerato Tshabalala were the featured guests at Rosa Parks Library Soweto on 10th August 2016. The Rosa Parks Memorial Library, named by the US embassy in honour of their human rights hero Rosa Parks, hosted two very different personalities as part of their women’s day celebrations. The two were Angela Makholwa and […]
The Mbokodo Awards are presented annually to recognise women in the arts, highlighting the contribution by women in the ongoing development of the arts in South Africa. As you can expect, there are ladies who have been nominated for this award who we cover regularly on this blog. In creative writing those nominated are Rehana […]
The International Confluences Book Fair was hosted in Mauritius on March 6-9 with authors from the island on the Indian Ocean and other parts of the globe. The Mauritian authors who attended the fair included Ananda Devi, Lindsey Collen, Alain Gordon-Gentil and Sedley Assone. From out of Mauritius were writers from France, UK, India, China, […]
A website for a writer is a very important tool as it is the one stop shop for the people who want to engage with the author. If done well it can be a very valuable marketing tool for one’s books. With this in mind South African author Angela Makholwa has joined the club of […]
After the terrifying experience I had to go through in Seychelles I had to be sure about these South African writers. Can they all write as well as the aforementioned Angela Makholwa? Would I have to now start getting my supply of literature from the Southern African country which is now coming back with […]
