Altered State?: Writing and South Africa
Published by Dangaroo, 1994 Edited with Laura Chrisman and Kenneth Parker
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 Schreiner Prize for Prose, 2018 Longlisted: Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize,
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, the mysterious and impassioned Mr C. An
Bloodlines
Published by David Philip (South Africa), 2000; Shenzhen Publishing House (China), 2024 Short-listed for the Sanlam Prize This compelling historical novel about the birth of the new South Africa explores
An Immaculate Figure
Published by Bloomsbury, 1993 Rosandra White is the proverbial perfect blonde. Exquisitely proportioned, desirable, her pale beauty exerts a powerful and dangerous allure. When she meets her childhood admirer Jem
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 describes the relationship between a white mother and