Feminist Naomi Wolf and biographer Elleke Boehmer discuss South African apartheid and forbidden love. Boehmer, writer and acclaimed biographer of Nelson Mandela, and Wolf, a leading third-wave feminist, activist and […]
Elleke will be at the 2015 Open Book Festival in Cape Town, 9-13 September. She will be participating in the following panels (view events on the calendar): Sins of our Parents
Elleke Boehmer, Craig Higginson & Henrietta Rose-Innes discuss their jumps between past and present with Diane Awerbuck.
Elleke Boehmer, Justin Cartwright and Melissa de Villiers discuss their respective relationships with the country of their birth as it is reflected in their recent books. Chaired by Nancy Richards.
Join Elleke Boehmer, Patrick Flanery, Perfect Hlongwane, Siphokazi Jonas, Shirmoney Rhode and Hong Ying as they read from their work.
Elleke Boehmer, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and Bridget Pitt discuss how the actions of the previous generation impact on their protagonists with Kathryn White.
Ashley Davies has written a brilliant review of The Shouting in the Dark in The Scotsman (27 July 2015): Every now and then you develop a relationship with a novel that
Elleke contributed to this morning’s episode of Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4, in the segment ‘Vocal Fry + Speech Patterns in Young Women’: ‘Vocal Fry’ may not be new
Elleke has recently been featured on Marina Warner’s BBC Radio 4 series, What is a Story? Hear her on the sixth episode, ‘Filling in the Gaps,’ talking about literature, history
Elleke contributed to the BBC Radio 4 programme The Human Zoo on 30 June, in an episode entitled ‘The Improvising Mind.’ Listen to the episode