News24 review of Ice Shock
Jane Rosenthal has published a new review of Ice Shock, titled ‘Elleke Boehmer’s Ice Shock is a serious but accessible novel about keeping in touch’.
Catch Elleke at FLF 2025!
Elleke will be at the 2025 Franschhoek Literary Festival on Friday and Saturday to talk about her three new books, Ice Shock, Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere, and Southern
Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere
Texts, Spaces, Resonances Published by Bloomsbury Press, 2024 Edited with Katherine Collins Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate
Mandarin translation of Bloodlines now available in China
We are delighted to announce that the Mandarin translation of Elleke’s novel Bloodlines appears in China this month, published by Shenzhen Publishing House (深圳出版社)! Bloodlines, shortlisted for the Sanlam Prize,
Oxford African Studies Seminar: Elleke in conversation with Wale Adebanwi
On Thursday 15 October, the University of Oxford’s African Studies Centre Seminar hosted Elleke. She was in conversation with Oxford’s Wale Adebanwi about To the Volcano. Watch the video below!
To the Volcano longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2020!
We’re delighted that To the Volcano has been longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2020. The Edge Hill Prize is the only UK based award to recognise excellence in a
Review of To the Volcano in The Short Story
Paul Woodgate has written a wonderful review of To the Volcano for The Short Story. Here’s an excerpt: Each story, delivered with a minimal grace and a compassionate eye for
Homi Bhabha reviews Postcolonial Poetics
Homi Bhabha has reviewed Postcolonial Poetics for Critical Inquiry. Some highlights include: It is difficult to do justice, in a brief review, to a book as detailed and deliberative as Postcolonial
Stellenbosch Launch of To the Volcano: 4 March 2020
Wamuwi Mbao of the Stellenbosch University English Department interviewed Elleke about To the Volcano at the Stellenbosch launch of the collection, which took place at the Protea Boekwinkel on 4
Barbara Boswell hosts Professor Elleke Boehmer’s book launch
The Book Lounge was host to the launch of To the Volcano in Cape Town last month, where Elleke was in conversation with Barbara Boswell of the Department of English