2009 Franschhoek Literary Festival Blessed by Book Weather
15 - 17 May 2009
What a weekend it was! Howling wind and 100mm of rain, swiftly-running gutters, mud everywhere – aptly renamed “book weather”. In three short years the FLF has grown into a respected celebration of books and writers with an international reputation. Click here to read more about it.
The winner of the inaugural Wine Writers Prize is Joanne Gibson. Click here to read more about her and the winning entry.
Click here to see photographs of the 2008 Festival, from
BookSA
Read news about the Festival
at the FLF Blog, hosted by
BookSA
For further information, or general enquiries about the Festival,
please send an email to Sheenagh Tyler at the following address:
help@flf.co.za
For accommodation queries and local information,
contact the Franschhoek Wine Valley & Tourist Association
The generous support of the Delta Trust from 2007-2009 allowed the Franschhoek Literary Festival to give a substantial amount of money to the FLF Library Fund, helping us to achieve our aim of making books in local languages available to everyone. Click here for more information about our sponsors.
The 2010 Programme is being finalised and will be available on this webite at the begining of March 2010 .
See the 2009 line up below:
From 15 - 17 May 2009, Franschhoek will
be
abuzz with writers, festival-goers, publishers, booksellers, book agents and
musicians for three days of discussions and debates, insights into writers’
lives and problems, spoken poetry, impassioned outbursts, storytelling,
singing, glorious music and laughter.
The FLF Committee is pleased to announce that the following writers, broadcasters, playwrights and publishers will be present:
- Lebo Mashile, poet, TV personality and author of In a Ribbon of Rhythm and Flying Above the Sky
- Best-selling author Vikas Swarup, Deputy High Commissioner for India in Pretoria (Q & A and Six Suspects)
- Alexandra Fuller, Zimbabwe writer now living in Wyoming. (Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Scribbling the Cat, The Legend of Colton H. Bryant)
- Multi-talented author and broadcaster Jenny Crwys-Williams, who recently brought out her third Penguin Dictionary of South African Quotations
- Veteran activist Sindiwe Magona (Beauty’s Gift)
- Max du Preez, controversial journalist and editor (Of Tricksters, Tyrants and Turncoats)
- The team that worked on and contributed to the late Bob Woolmer’s last work, The Art & Science of Cricket: leading sports scientist Tim Noakes, writer and poet Helen Moffett and humorist and novelist Tom Eaton (The Wading)
- Justin Cartwright, South African/English author (The Song Before it is Sung and a new book out next April), coming from the UK
- Afrikaans author Eben Venter (Trencherman), coming from Australia
- South African English authorities Elwyn Jenkins and Rajend Mesthrie
- Playwright Mike van Graan, who will be bringing a third stand-up première: Bafana Republic : Penalty Shootout
- Ace broadcasters John Maytham and Karabo Kgoleng, podcaster Victor Dlamini and editor Phakama Mbonambi, all of whom will chair sessions along with Jenny Crwys-Williams and Ben Williams of Book SA
- Toby Mundy, publisher of the MAN Booker-winning White Tiger, from London
