‘Gaining insight’: Review of Ice Shock in Business Day
In her Business Day review of Ice Shock, Arja Salafranca describes ‘One of the pleasures of reading this novel [as] reading … descriptions of [Antarctica] and gaining some insight into […]
Pre-order Ice Shock in the UK
Details of the UK publication of Ice Shock have just been made public on the Valley Press website! Pre-orders of the novel are now available for delivery in December 2025.
‘The Boy in the Cave’ shortlisted in The Emma Press Open Call Competition
We are delighted to share that Elleke’s novella The Boy in the Cave has been shortlisted in 2025 The Emma Press Open Call Competition. The judges describe it as: An
Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History of the Far Southern Hemisphere
Published by Princeton University Press, 2025 A northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south—the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and southern Africa, among
Catch Elleke at FLF 2025!
Elleke will be at the 2025 Franschhoek Literary Festival on Friday and Saturday to talk about her three new books, Ice Shock, Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere, and Southern
Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere
Texts, Spaces, Resonances Published by Bloomsbury Press, 2024 Edited with Katherine Collins Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate
The Case for Reparations: Franschhoek Literary Festival 2025
Will a deeper understanding of the history of slavery in Africa and the black diaspora inform a more equitable future? Is restorative memory a precondition for restorative justice? Elleke Boehmer weighs the
The Sting of Story: Franschhoek Literary Festival 2025
Novels once helped to spark revolutions. But can fiction be resistance in a democracy? Do subversive books still change lives beyond their readerships? Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane weighs the weaponry of words with Elleke Boehmer (Ice