JOHANNESBURG AUTHORS |
Nadine Gordimer Her first novel, The Lying Days, was published in 1953. Since then, she has produced fourteen novels, the most recent of which is Get a Life. She won the Booker Prize for The Conservationist in 1974. Some of her most memorable fiction, including July’s People and Burger’s Daughter, was written in the 1980s during South Africa’s “interregnum”. She has published eleven volumes of short fiction, the most recent of which is Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black. She has also produced four volumes of non-fiction and two collections of photographs with David Goldblatt. Nadine Gordimer was the first South African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Antje Krog is a poet, writer, journalist and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape. She has published twelve volumes of poetry in Afrikaans, two volumes of verse for children, a short novel, a play, and two non-fiction books in English: Country of my Skull on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission& A Change of Tongue about the transformation in South Africa after ten years.
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Xolela Mangcu is Executive Chairman of the Platform for Public Deliberation at University of Johannesburg, and a columnist for Business Day and the Weekender. He holds a Ph.D. in City Planning from Cornell University. He has worked at the Human Sciences Research Council, the Steve Biko Foundation and the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg. His latest book is ‘To The Brink: The State of Democracy in South Africa (2008).’
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Mark Gevisser. Educated at Yale, he is one of South Africa’s foremost journalists. He is the co-editor of ‘Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa’ and his political profile columns are collected in ‘Profiles of Power: Portraits in a New South Africa. His film work includes the award-winning ‘The Man who drove with Mandela’. His award-winning biography, ‘Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred’ will now be published as ‘A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream’. He is currently working on a book about South Africa’s ‘Second Transition’.
Achille Mbembe is an internationally renowned scholar and philosopher who has taught at several leading US universities, in Dakar, Senegal and Johannesburg. His latest work On the Postcolony was published in Paris in 2000 in French and the English translation has been published by the University of California Press in 2001. He is Professor at WISER at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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Imraan Coovadia was educated at Yale and is member of staff at UCT. His debut novel, The Wedding was chosen as book of the week by Exclusive Books (South Africa) and Asian Week.com.He has also written Green-eyed Thieves, and a forthcoming critical study, Authorship and Authority in V.S. Naipaul.
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Lakshmi Subramaniam holds a chair in the Department of History and Culture at Jamia Millia Islamia. She has published extensively on music in South India and the Indian Ocean and maritime history. Her monograph From the Tanjore Court to the Madras Music Academy: A social history of music in South India appeared in 2006.
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Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat, presently serving in Pretoria as India’s Deputy High Commissioner to South Africa. His bestselling debut novel Q&A has been translated into 34 languages and made into a film titled Slumdog Millionaire. His second novel Six Suspects will be released in July 2008.
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Dilip Menon teaches History at Delhi University. He was educated in Delhi, Oxford and has taught at Cambridge, Yale, and Hyderabad. He works on the social and cultural history of modern India on issues of caste, socialism and nationalism. His published works include Caste Nationalism and Communism in South India, a translation of a Malayalam novel Saraswativijayam; The Blindness of Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India & Cultural History of Modern India.
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Michael Pearson is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and Adjunct Professor of Humanities at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is a leading international authority on the early modern history of India and East Africa, and the Indian Ocean and has published eleven monographs and co-edited books in this area. He has also published about 70 articles and book chapters.
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Jonathan Hyslop is Professor of Sociology and History at Wits University, and is Deputy-Director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER). He has published widely in the field of South African social history. He is author of The Notorious Syndicalist.
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Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has published widely on South African literary and cultural history and currently works on transnationalism. Her prize-winning monographs include The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim’s Progress. She is co-ordinator of the South Africa-India Research Group at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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Stephen Gelb is Executive Director of The EDGE Institute in Johannesburg, and Visiting Professor in Economics and Acting Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has consulted for the South African Government and many multilateral institutions and has produced two books and several dozen articles on South African economic and political issues. His current research is on foreign direct investment between developing countries, with an emphasis on India and South Africa.
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Luli Callinicos is an historian and heritage consultant, serving on boards of several national heritage institutions. Luli has written five books, two of which are biographies - The World that made Mandela and Oliver Tambo: Beyond the Engeli Mountains. In 1989 she received the Noma Award for Working Life: Factories, Townships and Popular Culture.
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Rajiv Kumar Director and Chief Executive, since February 2006, of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), Dr. Kumar was earlier with ICRIER as Senior Fellow from 1982 to 1987. He has been with the National Security Advisory Board & Telecom Regulatory Authority of India & was Chief Economist with CII. He has worked with the Asian Development Bank, Manila for ten years as Principal Economist and worked on China, Mongolia, Myanmar, Central Asian Republics.
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Susie Tharu has translated the two-volume anthology Women Writing in India 600 B.C to the Present which she co-edited with K. Lalita. Other books include Subject to Change: English Studies in the 1990s and French Feminism: An Indian Anthology. Currently Vaikkom Mohammed Basheer Chair in the School of Letters, Kottayam, and formerly Professor and Dean of the School of Critical Humanities at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, she has also taught in the IIT s at Delhi and, Kanpur and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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INDIAN AUTHORS |
Nayantara Sahgal is a writer and political commentator. She has published nine novels and five non-fiction works. Her award-winning work includes Rich Like Us which won the Sinclair Fiction Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award and Plans For Departure which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During the 1980's she was Vice President of the People's Union for Civil Liberties.
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William Dalrymple is the author of five acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, and The Last Mughal. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New Statesman and The Guardian.
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Kunal Basu is an author, actor, and director. He has penned three novels, The Opium Clerk, The Miniaturist, and Racists. His book of short stories, The Japanese Wife, is being made into a film by Aparna Sen. He is also an academic and currently directs the Oxford University Advanced Management Programme.
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Urvashi Butalia is the publisher of Zubaan, a publishing house and an imprint of Kali for Women. Among her published works are: Women and the Hindu Right: A Collection of Essays (co edited with Tanika Sarkar), Speaking Peace: Women's Voices on Kashmir (edited) and the award winning oral history of Partition: The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India.
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Pavan K. Varma. Apart from being a prominent diplomat he is a writer with over a dozen books to his credit, including Ghalib: The Man, The Times and the Havelis of Old Delhi. His books on contemporary subjects - The Great Indian Middle Class; Being Indian: The Truth about why the 21st Century Will Be India’s, have been path breaking. Pavan K. Varma is currently the Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi.
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