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
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The Shouting in the Dark wins the Olive Schreiner Award for Prose!
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
ACLALS Auckland 2019 keynote and To the Volcano book launch
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.
New review of Indian Arrivals in Victorian Studies
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
Elleke Boehmer has become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
We're delighted to announce that Elleke Boehmer was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature on Monday 24 June 2019. Elleke signed her na
Master Class and Lecture: Postcolonial Poetics and Decolonizing the Academy at the University of Amsterdam
Elleke Boehmer will give a master class and lecture on "Postcolonial Poetics and Decolonizing the Academy" at the University of Amsterdam in May. Thi
New review of Postcolonial Poetics in the THE
Jenni Ramone has written a glowing review of Postcolonial Poetics in the Times Higher Education supplement. A couple of highlights: Elleke Boeh
To the Volcano, and other stories available for preorder
In more exciting news for 2019, Elleke Boehmer's new collection of short stories will be published by Myriad later this year. These assured, accom
TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Postcolonial Poetics
Postcolonial Poetics will be featured as the Book at Lunchtime at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) on 30 January 2019. Elleke
Australian edition of The Shouting in the Dark to be published in February 2019 by UWA Publishing
We are very excited to announce that the Australian edition of The Shouting in the Dark will be published by UWA Publishing in February 2019 as T