Interview about Op de veranda on LezenTV (video)
Elleke was recently interviewed about Op de veranda (The Shouting in the Dark) for LezenTV by Peter Gielissen. Watch an extract (in Dutch): The full interview may be viewed on the […]
Business Day review of The Shouting in the Dark
Business Day‘s Sue Grant-Marshall has written a review of The Shouting in the Dark, praising the novel’s ‘subtle and haunting descriptive prose,’ and noting that ‘Resilience is at the heart of Boehmer’s
The Shouting in the Dark at the London Literature Festival
The Southbank discussion of Elleke Boehmer’s The Shouting in the Dark on 11 October 2015 formed part of the ‘Tell Me Something I Don’t Know’ festival, and explored the topic of
Op de veranda at De Balie: summary and videos
The inaugural discussion of the Dutch translation of The Shouting in the Dark – Op de veranda – was wide-ranging and stimulating and paid tribute to Joost Poort’s accomplished and
Conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Zoë Wicomb
Elleke will be in conversation with Zoë Wicomb about The Shouting in the Dark at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London on 26 October 2015. The event
Literary Salon: ‘Unlearning Childhoods’ with novelists Caryl Phillips and Elleke Boehmer
Renowned authors Caryl Phillips and Elleke Boehmer read from their new novels, and discuss how they evoked troubled childhoods, race, the buried, unspoken violence of history. Phillips’ The Lost Child
Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire
Published by Oxford University Press, 2015 Winner: 2016 ESSE Book Award for Literatures in the English language Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of
The Shouting in The Dark out soon in Dutch as Op de veranda
The Dutch translation of The Shouting in the Dark is soon to be published by Uitgeverij Cossee as Op de veranda (cover below). Watch this space for ordering details!
Event – A childhood in South Africa (De Balie)
Elleke Boehmer and Naomi Wolf on apartheid, family and literature The 1970s. Apartheid South Africa. A situation of profound division, both in the country at large, and in many homes,
Reading Matters podcast: 17/09/2015
Sue Grant Marshall interviewed Elleke about The Shouting in the Dark on Reading Matters (Radio Today) on 17 September. Reading Matters hosted by Sue Grant-Marshall is broadcast on Thursdays from 10h00