488pp., illus., paperback, Soutie Press, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9781037047831

A selection of contemporary nonfiction writing from South Africa.

Contributors: J. M. Coetzee, Kimon de Greef, William Dicey, Alexandra Dodd, Madeleine Fullard, Mark Gevisser, Anna Hartford, Anton Harber, Michiel Heyns, Daniël Hugo, Anton Kannemeyer, Bongani Kona, Rustum Kozain, Antjie Krog, Alastair Laird, Adrian Leftwich, Lidudumalingani, Bongani Madondo, Rian Malan, Zanele Mji, Mogorosi Motshumi, Nosisi Mpolweni, Julie Nxadi, Njabulo S Ndebele, Lindokuhle Nkosi, Sean O’Toole, Kopano Ratele, Warren Raysdorf, Srila Roy, Lin Sampson, Kwanele Sosibo, Jonny Steinberg, Niren Tolsi, Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Roger Young, Percy Zvomuya.

Journalist Sean Christie is the author of Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard - Life among the stowaways, winner of the 2017 Recht Malan Prize.

Hedley Twidle is currently Head of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of two essay collections, Firepool and Show Me the Place, as well as a study of life writing and the South African transition, Experiments with Truth.

THE INTERPRETERS: South Africa's new nonfiction

: Christie (S.) & Twidle (H.) eds.

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