by M. Bijman November 19, 2013 Afrikaans Current events Discussion of author’s portfolio The Grass Was Singing – Goodbye Doris Lessing Doris Lessing, the Zimbabwean-raised author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, died on 17 November 2013. Luckily forContinue Reading
by M. Bijman October 31, 2013 Children’s Literature Current events Discussion of author’s portfolio Discussion of genre Review of new book Review of new novel Review of novel Depicting the minutiae of life – Dear Life, by Alice Munro – (Penguin Books Canada, 2012) The significant moments in Alice Munro’s latest collection of short stories tend to creep upContinue Reading
by M. Bijman October 27, 2013 Current events Discussion of author’s portfolio Review of previously published novel Happy birthday Dylan Thomas, you lovely Welshman Dylan Thomas would’ve been 99 today. Born 27 October 1914, he died 9 November 1953, only 39 years old, muchContinue Reading