The Cape Town Book Fair

Words Create Worlds

12 March

Top local authors highlight of Cape Town Book Fair

Debates, discussions and authors talking about writing will be a highlight of the Cape Town Book Fair.  The Cape Town Book Fair is being held at the  Cape Town International Convention Centre from 14 to 17 June.

From international  authors Alexander McCall Smith who will be at the fair to promote his new book in the ever-popular Ladies No.1 Detective Agency series to Marina Lewycka the author of the best-selling A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, there will also be over 100 local authors present at the fair;  including Jo-Anne Richards who will speak about her brilliant new novel My Brother's Book.

There will be plenty of discussion as well with a packed programme of debate and talk, one of that is sure to get people talking is the launch of Stormkaap: Drome kom altyd andersom uit Join us for the launch of this stunning graphic novel from the Cape Flats, written and illustrated by André Trantraal, Ashley Marais and Nathan Trantraal. Spoken word poet and rapper Jitsvinger will provide the beats.

Join Peter Stiff who will sign copies of his best-selling trilogy on South Africa's secret warfare, The Silent War: South African Recce Operations 1968-1994, Warfare by Other Means: South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, and The Covert War: Koevoet Operations in Namibia 1979-1989.

If you're in the mood for a gentler take on life join poet Isabel Dixon who will is coming from London to launch her new collection of poems, and if you have a manuscript in your back pocket you might like to discuss it with this London-based literary agent.

For Eben Venter fans his latest book Trencherman, the English translation by Luke Stubbs of his novel Horrelpoort will be launched at the fair, and novelist and award-winning translator Michiel Heyns will discuss the translation process, the world as part of Venter's oeuvre, as well as its thematic concern with fear.

The Cape Town Book Fair is run under the directorship of Vanessa Badroodien under the auspices of the South African Publishers Association and in collaboration with the Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest book fair in the world.

For more information go to http://www.capetownbookfair.co.za/