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Photograph: Ana Brígida Elleke Boehmer is the author of the novels Screens against the Sky (shortlisted David Higham Prize, 1990), 
Blackwell’s Oxford presents: Elleke Boehmer – The Shouting in the Dark
July 16 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Blackwell’s Bookshop, 51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ Details
The Shouting in the Dark
Published by Sandstone Press (UK), Cossee (Netherlands), Jacana (South Africa), 2015; UWA Press (Australia), 2019 Co-winner: triennial Olive Schreine
Sharmilla, and Other Portraits
Published by Jacana (South Africa), 2010 and Historica (Italy), 2019 Police question a Cape Town female escort about the whereabouts of her client, t
Nile Baby
Published by Ayebia, 2008 Nile Baby tells the story of two quirky young friends who discover a 90-year-old fetus in the laboratory storeroom of the
Bloodlines
Published by David Philip, 2000 Short-listed for the Sanlam Prize This compelling historical novel about the birth of the new South Africa explo
An Immaculate Figure
Published by Bloomsbury, 1993 Rosandra White is the proverbial perfect blonde. Exquisitely proportioned, desirable, her pale beauty exerts a powerf
Screens Against the Sky
Published by Bloomsbury and Penguin, 1990 Short-listed for the David Higham Prize Set in South Africa in the late seventies, this novel describe