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Thursday 23 August 2007:
17:30 to 18:30
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Amitav Ghosh (in conversation with Achmat Dangor, Pamila Gupta and Xolela Mangcu)
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Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand
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Friday 24 August 2007:
18:00 for 18:30
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Tarun Tejpal and Namita Gokhale
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Reading at Exclusive books (Hyde Park) |
Saturday 25 August 2007:
17:00
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Navdeep Suri and Ira Pande
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Reading at Exclusive books (Hyde Park) |
Monday 27 August 2007:
9:00-15:30
Programme
9:00-10:00 am
Sex and Sexuality in Indian Writers
10:30-11:30 am
Biography across two continents
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Translating in South Africa and India
13:15-.14:00 pm
Consumerism: India and South Africa
14:00-15:00 pm
Popular Fictions |
Indian and South African Writers in Conversation
(A one-day colloquium)
Namita Gohkale
Tarun Tejpal
Pavan Varma
Gerald Kraak
Chaired by Gerrit Olivier
Ira Pande
Liz McGregor
Uma Mesthrie
William Gumede (tbc)
Navdeep Suri
Namita Gokhale
Conversation facilitated by Achille Mbembe
Sarah Nuttall in conversation with Pavan Varma
Vikas Swarup in conversation with and Imraan Coovadia (tbc )
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WISER, University of the Witwatersrand
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Monday 27 August 2007:
18:00 – 18:30 pm |
Pavan Varam and Vikas Swarup
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Reading at Exclusive books (Hyde Park) |
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Tuesday 28 August 2007: 18:00 pm |
Mukul Kesavan on Cricket
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Reading at Exclusive Books
(Hyde Park) |
 AMITAV GHOSH
Ghosh has been a journalist and has written ‘The Circle of Reason’ & ‘The Shadow Lines’. Since then, he has published ‘The Calcutta Chromosome’, and ‘The Glass Palace’. He currently lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University.
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 IRA PANDE
A fascinating experiment in the genre of the biography-novel, ‘Diddi’ is written by Ira. A university teacher she was editor at Seminar, Biblio, Dorling Kindersley and Roli Books. Currently, she works as a freelance writer and editor.
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 MUKUL KESAVAN
Mukul Kesavan teaches social history in Delhi and writes fiction when he can. He's keen on the game of cricket but in a non-playing way. His credentials for writing about the game are founded on a spectatorial axiom: distance brings perspective. Kesavan's book of cricket - 'Men in White' published by Penguin India is now available in bookstores. His first novel ‘Looking Through Glass’, was a bestseller some years back.
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 NAMITA GOKHALE
Her first novel, Paro: Dreams of Passion, was published to widespread acclaim in 1984. Her other books include Gods, Graves, and Grandmother, A Himalayan Love Story, Mountain Echoes, The Book of Shadows and The Book of Shiva.
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 NAVDEEP SURI
'Pavitra Paapi', a milestone work of the legendary Punjabi writer Nanak Singh became the first Punjabi novel to be translated into English. Nanak Singh's own grandson, Navdeep Suri is the author of 'Saintly Sinner'. 'Saintly Sinner', plays out that original poignant, moving story that has been seen to transcend the time barrier, questioning strictly laid down societal norms.
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 PAVAN VERMA
Pavan Varma's career as a diplomat has seen him serve in several countries and parallel to his diplomatic career, he has written over a dozen books including ‘Being Indian & ‘The Great Indian languages’.
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 TARUN TEJPAL
Tarun J Tejpal is a journalist and publisher. He has been editor with the India Today and The Indian Express groups & Outlook, India’s premier news magazines. His novel ‘Alchemy of Desire’ has been internationally acclaimed worldwide.
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 VIKAS SWARUP
Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat whose debut novel, Q and A won South Africa's Boeke Prize 2006. It is being translated into 32 languages, and is due to be made into a film, a stage musical and a radio play.
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 IMRAAN COOVADIA
Born in Durban, Imraan Coovadia currently resides in New York, where he is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Adelphi University. His debut novel, The Wedding, published simultaneously in the US and SA in 2001 has been translated into Hebrew and Italian. It was shortlisted for the 2002 Sunday Times Fiction Award, Ama-Boeke Prize (2003), IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award (2005), and was chosen as book of the week by Exclusive Books (South Africa) and Asian Week.com.
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 LIZ MCGREGOR
Liz Mcgregor is a journalist and biographer. Born in South Africa, she worked for many years as a journalist on The Guardian. After seventeen years abroad, she returned to South Africa. She took up a fellowship at WISER at the University of the Witwatersrand where she produced a biography, Khabzela, the story of a young radio DJ who died of AIDS. The book has been hailed as a landmark in the representation of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
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 ACHILLE MBEMBE
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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 GERRIT OLIVIER
Gerrit Olivier is currently Head of the Wits School of Arts. He was for many years Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand. A leading scholar of Afrikaans literature, he is well-known for his work on the poet NP van Wyk Louw. He is currently working on the writer Koos Prinsloo whose sexually explicit writing in the early 1990s caused a furore.
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 GERALD KRAAK
Gerald Kraak is a Programme Executive of Atlantic Philanthropies. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa. His award winning debut novel, Ice in the Lungs focuses on political and sexual choices during the anti-apartheid struggle. Kraak has written two books on South African politics and directed a documentary on gay conscripts in the apartheid army.
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 SARAH NUTTALL
Sarah Nuttall is a leading cultural commentator and critic. She is well- known for her work on youth culture in post-apartheid South Africa. Her recent edited collection Ugly/Beautiful: African and Diaspora Aesthetics won the Arthur Rubin book prize. She is Senior Research at WISER at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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 UMA DHUPELIA-MESTHRIE
Uma is Professor of History at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town. She is the author/editor of four books: Not Slave, Not Free (1992), From Canefields to Freedom: a Chronicle of Indian South African Life (2000) and Sita: The Memoirs of Sita Gandhi (2003). In 2004, her biography Gandhi’s Prisoner: The Life of Gandhi’s Son Manilal won the Via- Afrika/MNet Award. She is also Manilal Gandhi's granddaughter .
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