Background to Our Fathers

For writing the high-speed car chases in the sprawling shanty neighbourhoods of Soweto in Johannesburg, I spent a number of nights with the operational men of Tracker, a company specialising in retrieving stolen or hijacked vehicles and people.

Soweto is a bewildering place for the average outsider, but also an incredible, throbbing universe of people rich […]

Podcast: Sue Grant-Marshall interviews Karin Brynard

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Book fundi, Sue Grant-Marshall, interviews Karin Brynard about her book, Weeping Waters. Published by Penguin Random House (@penguinrandom).

An Interview with Karin Brynard

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Joanne Hichens chats to Karin Brynard, journalist, political correspondent, and award-winning author of the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize and Two M-Net Awards.

Here, she answers questions about Weeping Waters, the translation of her debut Afrikaans novel, Plaasmoord.

Background to Weeping Waters

I started writing books late in life – first I had to hunt and gather some life experience as well as stories. But I don’t regret this. After a long and interesting career as a journalist covering mostly politics in a turbulent South Africa, I could afford the luxury of turning into longer stories, writing […]