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The interface between South African publishing, authors, the academy, and anglophone publishing elsewhere in Africa: a personal retrospective

Surprisingly little is known about how the South African publishing industry has operated over the past 35 politically tumultuous years.

Helen Moffett Helen Moffett

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A History of South African Literature - Afrikaans Literature since 1930

The third volume concluding my comprehensive, novel history of South-African/Afrikaans literature explores the period from the 1930s onwards.

Jerzy Koch Jerzy Koch

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Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading

Isabel Hofmeyr. 2013. Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading. Harvard University Press, 218 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-07279-4.

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51 Poets: an Anthology of World Poetry

For a Latin American publisher I have undertaken to compile an anthology of world poetry.

JM Coetzee JM Coetzee
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