27th International FILLM Congress

Elleke will be a plenary speaker at the 27th International FILLM Congress in New Delhi from 15 to 17 March 2017. The theme of the congress is “The Familiar and the

Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction

Nelson Mandela: A World Life (Lecture)

On 31 January 2017, Elleke will give a lecture entitled ‘Nelson Mandela: A World Life’ at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) as part of the ‘Weinrebe Lecture Series: Writing

Elleke at Linguamania!

Elleke will be giving a reading from The Shouting in the Dark and speaking about ‘Living Bilingual’ for the Linguamania! event at the Ashmolean Museum on 27 January 2017. More details

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Biblio review of The Shouting in the Dark

Tabish Khair has written as evocative review of The Shouting in the Dark in the September–November 2016 issue of Biblio: A Review of Books: A haunting evocation of a childhood,

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With passion, intelligence, and rare moral insight, Elleke Boehmer traces the scars left on the psyche by the tortuous histories of the South. —J. M. Coetzee

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