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The Biographer and the Wife: Event in celebration of To the Volcano

The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing will host a wine reception to celebrate To the Volcano on 2 December at Wolfson College, Oxford. All are warmly

La ragazza che parlava Zulu e altri racconti has just been published in Italy by Historica! This collection is an Italian translation of Elleke's bo

Elleke will launch her new book of short stories, To the Volcano and Other Stories, with Myriad Editions in London on 3 October 2019. Pre-publicat

Elleke's short story 'Supermarket Love' has been commended by the judges of the 2019 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Prize out of a long-list of ten. Elleke wi

We are delighted that Elleke's 2015 novel, The Shouting in the Dark, has been awarded the English Academy of Southern Africa's Olive Schreiner Award

Elleke is at the 2019 ACLALS conference in Auckland, where she will give a keynote address and launch her new book of short stories, To The Volcano.

A new review of Indian Arrivals has been published in the Winter 2019 issue of Victorian Studies (vol. 61, no. 2). Some highlights from Sukanya Baner

Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2020 Elleke Boehmer’s thrilling new collection of stories tracks lives across continents from th

Arresting, intriguing, and brilliantly crafted, these stories explore the psychic wounds of our rapidly contracting contemporary world, with its co

Compassionate, intelligent and evocative: this is a morally serious writing, lucidly rendered.