WRITERS from around the world will this week converge on Durban for the annual Time of the Writer international writers' festival that starts today
This year 21 prominent writers from a dozen countries will talk and exchange ideas among themselves and to an eager audience until Saturday.
The festival's opening night keynote address will be delivered by the recently retired Constitutional Court judge, esteemed writer and cultural activist, Justice Albie Sachs.
This year's theme is Freedom of Expression.
British-born American Raj Patel, South African author and journalist Lauren Beukes, and leading intellectual and award-winning writer Njabulo Ndebele, will take part in this year's festival. Ndebele is the author of Fools and other Stories and The Cry of Winnie Mandela.
Together with academic and Cameroon-born Achille Mbembe, Ndebele will take to the stage on Wednesday to talk on the topic A Promise Delivered or a Nation Betrayed: Literature as South Africa's Conscience.
21 prominent writers to exchange ideas
WRITERS from around the world will this week converge on Durban for the annual Time of the Writer international writers' festival that starts today
This year 21 prominent writers from a dozen countries will talk and exchange ideas among themselves and to an eager audience until Saturday.
The festival's opening night keynote address will be delivered by the recently retired Constitutional Court judge, esteemed writer and cultural activist, Justice Albie Sachs.
This year's theme is Freedom of Expression.
British-born American Raj Patel, South African author and journalist Lauren Beukes, and leading intellectual and award-winning writer Njabulo Ndebele, will take part in this year's festival. Ndebele is the author of Fools and other Stories and The Cry of Winnie Mandela.
Together with academic and Cameroon-born Achille Mbembe, Ndebele will take to the stage on Wednesday to talk on the topic A Promise Delivered or a Nation Betrayed: Literature as South Africa's Conscience.