Tales of the amazing light show of life
This excerpt comes from a piece by Elleke that appeared in the South African Sunday Times on 15 March 2020. Southern light – anyone who has experienced it recognises instantly […]
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Just doing their thing: Confronting fractured worlds in Elleke Boehmer’s To The Volcano (TLS review)
In their best, often their most surreal moments, Elleke Boehmer’s stories are memorably lifelike. Read the full review
‘That Glittering Southern Light’: new review of To the Volcano in the LARB
Gerri Kimber has written a wonderful new review of To the Volcano in the Los Angeles Review of Books. An excerpt: Boehmer’s book is a gift of discovery for us
Review of To the Volcano in A Life in Books
To the Volcano has been reviewed by Susan Osborne in her blog A Life in Books. An excerpt: These are insightful, intelligent stories full of characters pursuing their dreams but
La ragazza che parlava Zulu e altri racconti published by Historica
La ragazza che parlava Zulu e altri racconti has just been published in Italy by Historica! This collection is an Italian translation of Elleke’s book of short stories, Sharmilla, and Other
‘Supermarket Love’ commended in the 2019 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Prize long-list
Elleke’s short story ‘Supermarket Love’ has been commended by the judges of the 2019 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Prize out of a long-list of ten. Elleke will fly to Melbourne to
The Shouting in the Dark wins the Olive Schreiner Award for Prose!
We are delighted that Elleke’s 2015 novel, The Shouting in the Dark, has been awarded the English Academy of Southern Africa’s Olive Schreiner Award for Prose. Elleke will be presented
New review of Indian Arrivals in Victorian Studies
A new review of Indian Arrivals has been published in the Winter 2019 issue of Victorian Studies (vol. 61, no. 2). Some highlights from Sukanya Banerjee’s review: Focussing especially on
Elleke Boehmer has become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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