News & Events

To coincide with the Week of the Afrikaans Novel (29 September-8 October), the Library of the ASCL has compiled a new web dossier. In addition to titles on Afrikaans literature and on the six South African writers participating in this year’s literary festival (Amy Jephta, Andries Bezuidenhout, Ingrid Winterbach, Rudie van Rensburg, Suzie Matlhola and Willem Anker), the dossier contains titles of Afrikaans novels, short stories, poetry, prose and drama published since 2010. All titles are available in the ASCL Library. Read the new web dossier!

In 2017 Swiss born Conradin Perner published his second volume of memoirs, completing a four decade spanning publication nightmare of his ethnographic fieldwork reports among the Sudanese Anyuak. Together with his 8 volumes of the Anyuak ethnography Living on Earth in the sky, this new travel autobiography gives an exhaustive and intimate portrait of ethnographic fieldwork in the period 1976-1983. The memoirs are the subject of our latest Library Highlight!

Former ASCL director Ton Dietz has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Order was awarded to him by Minister Bert Koenders after Ton's valedictory lecture on Monday 25 September. The Order is 'an extraordinary decoration; only awarded in very special circumstances and to very special people', as Minister Koenders said. Watch the video of the event.