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 […]
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
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
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
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
Bongani Kona talks to novelist and critic Elleke Boehmer about her trio of new books about the allegedly lower half of the globe (Ice Shock, Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere; Southern Imagining).
We are delighted to announce that the Mandarin translation of Elleke’s novel Bloodlines appears in China this month, published by Shenzhen Publishing House (深圳出版社)! Bloodlines, shortlisted for the Sanlam Prize,
On 13 September 2021, Elleke will read from To the Volcano and be in conversation with Kai Wiegandt at the Barenboim-Said Akademie. The reading will be accompanied by musical performances
In this public online event, acclaimed authors Petina Gappah and Elleke Boehmer engage in a dialogue around the theme ‘the politics of the past’, with a special focus on Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. Drawing on their professional, personal and literary