THE LOSS LIBRARY AND OTHER UNFINISHED STORIES

110 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2011

Ivan Vladislaviç examines eleven of his own stories which have either gone missing or been left unfinished, how the ideas arose, and why he abandoned them.

Ivan Vladislaviç has won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the University of Johannesburg Prize and the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. His books include the novels "The Folly", "The Restless Supermarket", "The Exploded View" and "Double Negative"; "Portrait with Keys", a sequence of texts about Johannesburg; and a collection of short stories, "Flashback Hotel".