Book Review: The Distance
Ivan Vladislavić
The Distance (Umuzi/Penguin Random House, 2019)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Panel Discussion: From Ponte City to Perth
Please join us for the final event in the Writing Place Pushing Genre: Adventures across South Africa and Australia series.
Workshop: Writing Place, Pushing Genre
You are invited to two workshops as part of the Writing Place, Pushing Genre series, organised by Professor Peter Beilharz.
Issue 136, October 2016
South African Papers Why read Ivan Vladislavic? The papers gathered together in this special section of Thesis Eleven offer some clues to the curious, or to those watching the detectives. Vladislavic is one of the premier writers in and of South Africa, which is to say something, as this is a rich and vibrant…
Ivan Vladislavić – Seeing South Africa @ Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo
Wednesday 22 October 2014 12 pm Visual Arts Centre, View Street, Bendigo South African writer Ivan Vladislavić has worked often with artists and especially with photographers. He will discuss the value of working in response – or resistance – to visual images. Vladislavić’s works include The Restless Supermarket (2001); Double Negative (2010), Portrait with Keys…
Ivan Vladislavić – Writing South Africa In Conversation with Peter Beilharz @ University of Tasmania
Monday 27th October 2014 12 – 1pm HUM477a Level 4 Humanities Building, Sandy Bay Campus South Africa is a fascinating modernity – images of idyllic landscape matched with those of cities and race relations that remain challenging, even twenty years after apartheid. Johannesburg has the reputation of being a tough, if not impossible city. Certainly…
Ivan Vladislavic in conversation with Peter Beilharz
Cities like Johannesburg are easily reviled, at a distance. Those who live in them, or are drawn to them, need to make peace with tough cities, even perhaps to love them. Ivan Vladislavic is the leading South African writer of urban fiction. His work combines irony, humour, engagement and detachment, the…
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