Elleke Boehmer

Elleke will be interviewed by Nancy Jouwe at this year's Tong Tong Fair about Op de veranda. Buy tickets

Elleke Boehmer, Professor or World Literature in English at Oxford University and biographer of Nelson Mandela, will give the Writers' Centre at Norwich a revealing behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Shouting in the Dark. This interactive World Literature masterclass is a must for anyone interested in life writing, and will offer practical advice on...

Elleke will be presenting a paper, entitled ‘Eavesdropping or Broadcasting – how to tell stories in the dark,’ at Telling Tales, Writing Stories, an interdisciplinary colloquium at TORCH in Oxford.   Find out more and register

Elleke will be presenting a seminar entitled “Migration Impacts” at the House of Commons on 1 November 2016. Migration has been occurring from the Indian sub-continent into the UK for well over a hundred years. How far can our understanding of the impact on our culture help shape our future policy? The event is part...

Elleke will be participating in 'Coetzee's Other Worlds', a one-day workshop exploring the transnational dimensions of J. M. Coetzee’s writing, to be held at Western Sydney University. Details here

Elleke will be giving a reading from The Shouting in the Dark and speaking about 'Living Bilingual' for the Linguamania! event at the Ashmolean Museum on 27 January 2017. More details here

On 31 January 2017, Elleke will give a lecture entitled 'Nelson Mandela: A World Life' at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) as part of the 'Weinrebe Lecture Series: Writing World Lives 2'.

Professor Boehmer will speak about Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), first president of democratic South Africa, as a world life—a national leader whose life also had global dimensions. How did this passionately nationalist leader, who identified himself completely with his country and his people, also appeal to the world? And what is his legacy for the globalised...

In this masterclass, Elleke Boehmer will examine how we conceptualise the relationship between writing and criticism in the works of writers who practice both. Are metaphors such as conversation, exchange or interface at all helpful? In times when more creative writers than ever before are working in academic departments of literature, but at the same...

On Friday 24 February, Elleke Boehmer will read from The Shouting in the Dark as part of an English and Creative Writing Seminar at the University of Adelaide. All are welcome.