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 Imagining.
Here are the details of her three sessions:
Why Down South?: Franschhoek Literary Festival 2025
16 May at 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Bongani Kona talks to novelist and critic Elleke Boehmer about her trio of new books about…
The Sting of Story: Franschhoek Literary Festival 2025
16 May at 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Novels once helped to spark revolutions. But can fiction be resistance in a democracy? Do subversive…
The Case for Reparations: Franschhoek Literary Festival 2025
17 May at 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Will a deeper understanding of the history of slavery in Africa and the black diaspora inform…
