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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 8h

TALLE TALE: Klara du Plessis at Woordfees

Datum en Tyd: 12/10/2025 | 16:00
Venue: EasyEquities Skrywerskamer
For details and tickets, please see:
woordfees.co.za/program/tall...

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 1d

Middaguurgesprek | Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands, Stellenbosch

Sluit by ons aan op 9 Oktober 2025 vir ’n gesprek tussen prof. Andries Visagie en Klara du Plessis oor haar Suid-Afrikaanse debuut, 𝘌𝘬’𝘵 𝘈𝘤𝘵.

🗓️ Datum: 9 Oktober 2025
🕐 Tyd: 13:10–14:00
📍 Plek: Lettere 693

RSVP: 📩 [email protected]

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 2d

Catch Malika Lueen Ndlovu @ Poetry Africa this week!

poetryafrica.ukzn.ac.za/poets-2025/m...

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Elleke Boehmer @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social · 3d

Wonderful news. And well deserved. Was privileged to be in discussion with Karen Jennings about Crooked Seeds at Books 📚 on the Bay earlier this year!

Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 3d

The Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlists have been announced and we are thrilled to share the news that CROOKED SEEDS by Karen Jennings has been shortlisted for the Fiction Prize! Congratulations, Karen and all other nominated authors!
www.sundaytimes.timeslive.co.za/books/2025-1...

The 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards prize

In partnership with Exclusive Books, the awards this year marks the 35th anniversary of the non-fiction award which has, over three decades, showcased the most astute, critical and incisive non-fictio...

www.sundaytimes.timeslive.co.za

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 3d

The Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlists have been announced and we are thrilled to share the news that CROOKED SEEDS by Karen Jennings has been shortlisted for the Fiction Prize! Congratulations, Karen and all other nominated authors!
www.sundaytimes.timeslive.co.za/books/2025-1...

The 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards prize

In partnership with Exclusive Books, the awards this year marks the 35th anniversary of the non-fiction award which has, over three decades, showcased the most astute, critical and incisive non-fictio...

www.sundaytimes.timeslive.co.za

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Karina M. Szczurek @karinamszczurek.bsky.social · 3d

Zukiswa Wanner among South Africans detained on Gaza-bound flotilla
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Breaking: Zukiswa Wanner Among South Africans Detained on Gaza-Bound Flotilla

South African author and editor Zukiswa Wanner is among several South Africans detained after the Israeli navy intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza on October 2. In a statement, the So...

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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 5d

We stand with South African writers in denouncing the detention of writer Zukiswa Wanner and fellow Global Sumud Flotilla participants. We call for their immediate release and safe return home. pensouthafrica.co.za/statement-of...

Statement of Solidarity: Global Sumud Flotilla & Zukiswa Wanner | PEN South Africa

Statement of Solidarity: Global Sumud Flotilla & Zukiswa Wanner

pensouthafrica.co.za

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 5d

Author Talk at Observatory Library with Consuelo Roland
Saturday, 4 October 2025
10:30-11:30
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Author Talk at Observatory Library with Consuelo Roland

Visit the post for more.

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 6d

The JDL Award for Poetry: honourable mention given to 'Land | Lines' by Shari Daya
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The JDL Award for Poetry: honourable mention given to Land | Lines by Shari Daya

The inaugural AVBOB competition for collections of poetry, now known as The JDL Award for Poetry in memory of the contribution to the Poetry Project by the late Johann de Lange, took place earlier …

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 6d

An award-winning author: Thobeka Yose ❤️

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 6d

UK edition of ICE SHOCK by Elleke Boehmer to be published by Valley Press
valleypressuk.com/products/ice...

Ice Shock: A Love Story

Pre-order now: for delivery December 2025 The year is 2010. An Icelandic volcano has thrown an ash cloud into the atmosphere and, across the world, planes have stopped flying. Leah and Niall, twenty-s...

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 7d

PARIS launch of 'Salt Water Pool Boy' by Peter-Adrian Altini
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PARIS launch of Salt Water Pool Boy by Peter-Adrian Altini

In Paris on the 9th of October? Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity – a first for Karavan Press – the Paris launch of one of our titles, Salt Water Pool Boy by Peter-Adrian Alti…

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 7d

Anschen Conradie reviews ICE SHOCK by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social

Look at the gorgeous UK cover!

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Anschen Conradie's review of Ice Shock

#IceShock – Elleke Boehmer #KaravanPress Falling in love was not part of her dream. Winning the award that would enable her to pursue her training as a writer was the essence of Leah Nash’s future. Th...

www.goodreads.com

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 7d

First Tuesdays at Art Formes Gallery with Klara du Plessis
7 October 2025
18:15 for 18:00
Art Formes Gallery: The Old Biscuit Mill, 375 Albert Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7915

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 7d

NALN launch of Ek’t Act by Klara du Plessis
2 October 2025
18:00
karavanpress.com/2025/10/01/n...

NALN launch of Ek’t Act by Klara du Plessis

Visit the post for more.

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 13d

'Performing Translingual Poetics' by Klara du Plessis – earlier today at UCT.

The first photo was a complete accident, but amazing in the context of Sarah Dowling's book on translingual poetics.

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 14d

Last night @thebooklounge.bsky.social: Werner Pretorius stepping from behind the bookseller's counter onto the author's stage at the launch of his debut collection of stories, LONE WOLF LIVING. Werner was in conversation with Mervyn Sloman.

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 15d

UJ seminar and launch of Ek’t Act by Klara du Plessis

29 September 2025

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UJ seminar and launch of Ek’t Act by Klara du Plessis

You can register for online admission to the seminar here: LanCSAL Let’s Talk Word & World Seminar

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 15d

Thobeka Yose at the Khayelitsha Book Festival!

Don’t miss a great lineup, including Thobeka Yose, author of the award-winning 'In Silence My Heart Speaks', at this year’s Khayelitsha Book Festival taking place between 26 and 28 September 2025.

Book tickets here: www.quicket.co.za/events/32946...

Book tickets for Khayelitsha Book Festival

www.quicket.co.za

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 16d

MERANG & SANG: ’n Viering van Afrikaans as inklusiewe taal met Danie Marais, Klara du Plessis, Elvis Saal, Franco Prinsloo

Book at Quicket: www.quicket.co.za/events/33114...

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 16d

UCT SLL Research Seminar Series: Klara du Plessis

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 17d

Karen Watkins reviews 'The Fourth Boy' by Andrew Robert Wilson for Goodreads
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Karen Watkins's review of The Fourth Boy

4/5: The semi-arid valley of the Little Karoo in South Africa seems like an unlikely setting for a gripping murder mystery. In Wilson’s debut novel, its dusty roads and quiet dorpies hide dark secrets...

www.goodreads.com

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 17d

Karavan Press authors at Blown Away by Books: 'Writing Mortality & Celebrating Life' with Lucienne Bestall, Consuelo Roland & Stephen Symons.

Thank you to the authors, the Friends of the Fish Hoek Library and to all who attended for the life-affirming morning of literary discovery.

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Gailgil @gailgil.bsky.social · 17d

Still tickled pink to be part of the Karavan Press family! Thank you with all my heart, @karinamszczurek.bsky.social @karavanpress.bsky.social

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Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social · 18d

Look who is publishing her new novel with Karavan Press ... @gailgil.bsky.social! 😍

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