Elleke will be at the 2015 Open Book Festival in Cape Town, 9-13 September. She will be participating in the following panels (view events on the calendar):

Sins of our Parents

10 September, 14.00 – 15.00 in the Fugard Annexe 1
Price: R45
Elleke Boehmer, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and Bridget Pitt discuss how the actions of the previous generation impact on their protagonists with Kathryn White.

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Reading: Poetry and Prose

10 September, 18.00 – 19.00 in the Fugard Annexe 1
Price: R45

Join Elleke Boehmer, Patrick Flanery, Perfect Hlongwane, Siphokazi Jonas, Shirmoney Rhode and Hong Ying as they read from their work.

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You’re South African?

11 September, 14.00 – 15.00 in the Fugard Theatre
Price: R45

Elleke Boehmer, Justin Cartwright and Melissa de Villiers discuss their respective relationships with the country of their birth as it is reflected in their recent books. Chaired by Nancy Richards.

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Flashback Fiction

12 September, 10.00 – 11.00 in the Fugard Annexe 2
Price: R45

Elleke Boehmer, Craig Higginson & Henrietta Rose-Innes discuss their jumps between past and present with Diane Awerbuck.

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See all the events on Elleke’s events page or view the complete Open Book programme

Elleke contributed to this morning’s episode of Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4, in the segment ‘Vocal Fry + Speech Patterns in Young Women’:

‘Vocal Fry’ may not be new – think Mae West in the 1933 film She Done Him Wrong, but it’s the latest in a line of speech patterns popularised by celebrities such as the Kardashians, Scarlett Johansen, and Lena Dunham. Best described as a guttural lowering of the voice at the end of sentences, it’s a manner of speaking which some linguists believe undermines women, and causes them to be taken less seriously. Joining Jenni to discuss the feminist implications of ‘vocal fry’ are the author and journalist Naomi Wolf, and Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, Dr Elleke Boehmer.

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Elleke has recently been featured on Marina Warner’s BBC Radio 4 series, What is a Story? Hear her on the sixth episode, ‘Filling in the Gaps,’ talking about literature, history and diaspora.

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Elleke contributed to the BBC Radio 4 programme The Human Zoo on 30 June, in an episode entitled ‘The Improvising Mind.’

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