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 […]
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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
New review of Postcolonial Poetics in the THE
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
To the Volcano, and other stories available for preorder
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
Australian edition of The Shouting in the Dark to be published in February 2019 by UWA Publishing
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