South African author Ivan Vladislavic talks to thesis eleven director Peter Beilharz. Ivan Vladislavic is the leading South African writer of urban fiction. His work combines irony, humour, engagement and detachment, the insight and wisdom of the flaneur in this new and different environment. His recent works include Double Negative (2011); A Labour of Moles (2012); The Loss Library (2012,) and the fragments in Portrait with Keys (2006).