Wat ‘n voorreg om in ‘n spasie te skep, dink, trap waar hy bestaan het. As ‘n bruin vrou, wie net so oud soos die demokrasie van Suid-Afrika is, ‘n demokrasie wat hy help inlei het, besef ek die gewig van hierdie geleentheid.
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Paulet House and our writers in the news
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“Battiss is a huge subject! Briefly, he was born in Somerset East in 1906 and became South Africa’s best abstract artist. He is still considered to be our best water colour artist.”
“Writing is usually such a solitary thing, and it can get lonely. So, being surrounded by other writers has been amazing. Being in a space where six of us are together and working, feels like I’m part of a community of artists where we can share our processes and our progress.”
Met soveel verskillende tale en stories wat saans om die etenstafel ontmoet het, dink ek het ons almal baie by mekaar geleer. Ons was ook gelukkig om die Karoo Writers’ Festival in Cradock en die Nasionale Kunstefees in Makhanda by te woon en ook daar deur kreatiewe energie omring te word.”
Mphuthumi Ntabeni is one of six authors currently in residence in Somerset East, courtesy of the Jakes Gerwel Foundation and PEN South Africa.
His novel The wanderers (published by Kwela) is on the long list for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize.
Izak de Vries asked him a few questions
Naomi Meyer praat met Theo Kemp van die Jakes Gerwel Stigting en Catrina Wessels van PEN Afrikaans oor die skrywersresidensie in Paulet Huis wat in Junie 2022 die Oos-Kaap plaasvind.
Inwoonskrywer: Na
Naomi Meyer is een van ses skrywers wat tans vir ’n maand lank in Paulet Huis te Somerset-Oos skryf. Die residensie word moontlik gemaak deur ’n ruim borg van die Jakes Gerwel Stigting. Naomi is deur PEN Afrikaans vir die verblyf genomineer.
Izak de Vries het met haar gesels.
WAARSKUWING: NIE GESKIK VIR SENSITIEWE LESERS NIE ‘My mom used to say that God started making me before lunch and […]
“Around the table at a beautiful old house in Somerset East are four aspiring writers with big dreams.” Read the article in Daily Maverick.
Tebello Mzamo is one of the 20 contributors to the anthology Incredible Journey. Read an interview on Sunday Times Books Live, 30 Nov. 2015.
Jane Mpholo, Stephren Saayman, Melissa Myburgh, Heloine Armstrong en Henque Heymans was die uitverkore teatermakers wat vir drie weke in Somerset-Oos gaan skryf het, met die befaamde Abduragman Adams as mentor. Hulle produksies is volgende jaar op die Suidoosterfees-planke te sien. Hierdie projek word aangebied deur verskeie vennote wat hande neem – Jakes Gerwel Stigting, Suidoosterfees, Artscape en NATi.