See Elleke’s RSL profile The Royal Society of Literature has some 600 Fellows. They include the very best novelists, short-story writers, poets, playwrights, biographers, historians, travel writers, literary critics and […]
Jenni Ramone has written a glowing review of Postcolonial Poetics in the Times Higher Education supplement. A couple of highlights: Elleke Boehmer’s Postcolonial Poetics invites us to be fearless readers. She
In more exciting news for 2019, Elleke Boehmer’s new collection of short stories will be published by Myriad later this year. These assured, accomplished stories are reports from a world
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 The Shouting in the Dark & other southern writing. Besides the beautiful new cover, readers can
A new review of Postcolonial Poetics by Karina Magdalena Szczurek has been published in LitNet. Szczurek praises the book for its “intriguing approach to understanding our relationship to postcolonial literature as readers”. She
A new short story, entitled “Evelina”, has been published in the Australia-based Mascara Literary Review. The story offers a glimpse into Elleke’s upcoming short story collection, South, North, which will be published
Elleke Boehmer will publish a new collection of short stories, entitled South, North, with Myriad in 2019. From Myriad’s press release: South, North by Elleke Boehmer is a collection of short stories
Elleke Boehmer’s newest book of criticism, Postcolonial Poetics: 21st-Century Critical Readings, is out now as an eBook with Palgrave Macmillan. The hardcover will be published in September 2018. Read more and
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 Postcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial and world literatures today, and about how the structures of that writing shape our reading. The book’s
The Shouting in the Dark was recently featured on Eusebius McKaiser’s Literature Corner on South African’s 702 radio, where it was reviewed by Andrea van Wyk. Listen here: