Gabeba Baderoon

Gabeba Baderoon is the author of The Dream in the Next Body (2005), The Museum of Ordinary Life (2005) and A Hundred Silences (2006). The Dream in the Next Body was named a Notable Book of 2005 in the Sunday Independent, and A Hundred Silences was shortlisted for the 2007 University of Johannesburg Prize. Gabeba received the Guest Writer fellowship at the Nordic Africa Institute, and a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship for 2008. She is the recipient of the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Poetry 2005.

For more information, visit www.gabeba.com

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Lesley Beake

Lesley Beake was born in Scotland. She has written over sixty books. Many of them are for the challenging age group 12-16 although she has also written books for children of all ages from pre-school onwards. Some have been translated into languages as divers as Swedish and Korean – her most recent – the picture book Home Now, which has just been translated into five African languages. Her books have won the Sir Percy Fitzpatrick Award (twice) and the M-Net Prize for Literature and she was South Africa’s nominee for both the Astrid Lindgren and the Hans Christian Anderson Awards. She also writes and edits for travel magazines and websites and manages a website for the Kalahari People's Fund.

For more information, visit www.lesleybeake.co.za

Jeremy Boraine

Jeremy Boraine is the Publishing Director at Jonathan Ball Publishers. Prior to this he was Publisher at Penguin Books South Africa. For more information, click here

David Bullard

David Bullard’s Out to Lunch column in the Sunday Times was compulsory Sunday reading in millions of South African households, until he was spectacularly fired, amid a storm of controversy, by the editor of the Sunday Times. Out to Lunch covered a wide range of topics, from cars to sport to politics, and continually stimulated heated debate and vociferous disagreement. It also earned Bullard a bullet and a lawsuit. His book Screw it, Let’s Do Lunch! is only possible because of the poor aim of the ‘murderous bastard’ who broke into Bullard’s home and shot him. David survived, and approached his column with renewed vigour, commitment, and a double dose of scorn for the corrupt, the incompetent and the ignorant. And where did that get him?

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Maxine Case

Maxine Case is the author of All We Have Left Unsaid (Kwela Books, 2006) and her short story “Homing Pigeons” appears in the collection African Compass: New Writing from Southern Africa (New Africa Books, 2005). All We Have Left Unsaid is the winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, Africa region and is the joint winner of the Herman Charles Bosman Prize 2007. Maxine Case has written for O, the Oprah Magazine, True Love, Real Simple and has a monthly column, “The Last Word” in Soul magazine.

For more information, visit maxinecase.book.co.za

Imraan Coovadia

Imraan Coovadia, novelist, short story writer, essayist, script-writer and reviewer, was born and raised in a medical family in Durban. He attended Hilton College, outside Pietermaritzburg, and then studied in the United States, first at Harvard where he majored in philosophy and took classes with J.M. Coetzee and later, at Yale as a graduate student in English. Coovadia published his first novel, The Wedding, in 2001. It was runner-up in the Sunday Times Fiction Award (2002), long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award, a finalist for the first annual Connecticut Book Award, and short-listed for the Ama-Boeke Prize (2003) In June 2006, a second novel, Green-eyed Thieves, was chosen as Book of the Week by both SAFM and Exclusive Books, and Book of the Month by O Magazine (South Africa). Coovadia is currently working on a new novel, Witchcraft, set in Durban, which focuses on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa, and a collection of short stories entitled Old Boys.

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Jenny Crwys-Williams

When a hot author hits the New York Times best-seller list, followers of Jenny Crwys-William’s popular weekly book show on Talk Radio 702 ask themselves not if she will be interviewing them, but when. Her reputation as one of South Africa’s most influential book reviewers has given her access to exclusive interviews with the likes of Hillary and Bill Clinton, James Patterson, Peter Carey and many more. Her love for books extends to her penning her own, including The Penguin Dictionary of South African Quotations; and In the Words of Nelson Mandela.

For more information about Jenny Crwys-Williams, visit www.702.co.za

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