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 […]
Elleke to speak at ‘Coetzee’s Other Worlds’ Workshop
Elleke will be participating in ‘Coetzee’s Other Worlds’, a one-day workshop exploring the transnational dimensions of J. M. Coetzee’s writing, to be held at Western Sydney University. Details here
Moving Worlds review of The Shouting in the Dark
A new review for The Shouting in the Dark is in the latest issue of Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings (16.2). Writer Melissa de Villiers calls it a “fine coming-of-age
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,
“Migration Impacts”: Elleke addresses the House of Commons!
Elleke will be presenting a seminar entitled “Migration Impacts” at the House of Commons on 1 November 2016. Migration has been occurring from the Indian sub-continent into the UK for
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
The delicate intersection between the personal and the political has seldom been so skilfully explored; readable, tangible and haunting. —Naomi Wolf
Elleke Boehmer brings to her stories two qualities that all too often are mutually exclusive: the lucidity of her intelligence and the passion of her engagement. —André Brink
Indian Arrivals wins ESSE Book Award 2016!
Indian Arrivals, Elleke’s latest academic publication, has won a 2016 ESSE Book Award for Literatures in the English language! The awards were announced at the ESSE (The European Society for the
Afrikult. reviews The Shouting in the Dark
Jade Lee has given The Shouting in the Dark a glowing review in Afrikult., praising Boehmer for her seamless “interweaving of the personal, political and historical in such a way