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Happy Birthday to The Book Lounge and hip, hip hooray!
From one five year old to another “Happy Birthday!” (Modjaji Books also turned five this year). The Book Lounge is our go to book store for launches. We had our first launch at an art gallery in...
View ArticleLate summer special offer on new Modjaji titles and more!
Lots of new Modjaji titles will be heading out to bookstores and into the hands of readers everywhere soon. Here’s a great opportunity to get the books as they come out and even better – at a discount....
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Forthcoming attraction: Fractured Lives by Toni Strasburg
Award-winning film-maker, Toni Strasburg‘s memoir, Fractured Lives is coming soon to a bookstore near you. Toni Strasburg was born in South Africa and was exiled to Britain in 1965. She studied at...
View ArticleCelebrating World Book Day
To celebrate World Book Day and our 6th Birthday, we’re making the following offer. Buy one of our books direct from us and Modjaji will donate a book to Westridge High, the Book Lounge’s 2013 Library...
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Modjaji authors at the Franschoek Literary Festival
We’re delighted that Jenny Hobbs has invited us to join in the lit fest party again. Here’s a round up of events that Modjaji authors are taking part in. We’ve got a plethora of poets featured,...
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Toni Strasburg’s address as part of Rusty Bernstein Memorial lecture at Wits
Toni Strasburg, author of Fractured Lives and oldest daughter of Rusty and Hilda Bernstein spoke alongside Professor Ananya Roy at the Wits Architecture School last week, for the Rusty Bernstein...
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My First Time reviewed by Agenda
Unathi Nopece reviews My First Time: Stories of sex and sexuality from women like you in the July 2013 edition of Agenda. Jen Thorpe compiled and edited the collection from the blog she set up. She...
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Frankfurt revisited
I’ve had the wonderful good fortune of going to and being part of the Frankfurt Book Fair three times. This year was the first time as a trade visitor and ‘on my own’. I was lucky enough to be on the...
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Reclaiming the L-Word reviewed in Agenda
Wonderful to see that a book published in 2011 is still being reviewed. Here’s a review in Agenda of Reclaiming the L-Word edited by Alleyn Diesel. Diesel’s effort in garnering the writing together and...
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FIVE Modjaji titles shortlisted for 2014 SALA Awards
We couldn’t be more thrilled with this year’s SALA Award Nominees’ List. We’ve got FIVE titles listed in four categories. As a small press, this is extraordinary good news for us. In past years we have...
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Rosemary Smith’s Swimming with Cobras reviewed in Historia
Rosemary Smith’s memoir, Swimming with Cobras, in which she writes about her life in the Eastern Cape as a member of the Black Sash is reviewed favourably in the academic journal, Historia. This is a...
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Book Launch: Riding the Samoosa Express by Zaheera Jina and Others
Modjaji Books and Skoobs, Theatre of Books are delighted to invite you to the launch of Riding the Samoosa Express edited and compiled by Zaheera Jina and Hasina Asvat. We’re excited about this book,...
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Book Launch: I’m the Girl Who Was Raped by Michelle Hattingh
The Book Lounge and Modjaji Books are proud to invite you to the launch of a courageous book, I’m the Girl Who Was Raped written by Michelle Hattingh on April 28th. Michelle will be in conversation...
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Book Launch: I’m the Girl Who Was Raped by Michelle Hattingh
Modjaji Books and Love Books are pleased to invite you to the Johannesburg launch of I’m the Girl Who Was Raped, a memoir by Michelle Hattingh. Fiona Snyckers will introduce Michelle and talk with her...
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Michelle Hattingh’s I’m the Girl Who Was Raped – a powerful, brave book
Michelle Hattingh was in Joburg this week launching her memoir, I’m the Girl Who Was Raped. Her book is receiving huge media attention, because she has had the courage to come forward and tell her...
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Extraordinary media coverage for I’m the Girl Who Was Raped – and book tour...
As the effects of rape culture worldwide are being seen and challenged, Michelle Hattingh’s book I’m the Girl Who Was Raped speaks to how being a victim of rape feels from the inside. The media has...
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“One of the most affordable return tickets to Uganda”– launch of Flame and...
I don’t get to go to the launch of every book that Modjaji publishes. I was very glad to get to The Book Lounge launch of Philippa Namubeti Kabali-Kagwa’s memoir, Flame and Song, that we published in...
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An A to Z of AmaZing South African Women
Meet the rebels, artists, troublemakers, athletes, dancing queens and freedom fighters that shaped our past – and are changing our future. An A to Z of Amazing South African Women tells the stories of...
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Come see Modjaji’s Stellar Authors at the Franschhoek Literary Festival
This year’s edition of the annual Franschhoek Literary Festival is being held from the 19th to the 21st of May. Modjaji is proud to have some its authors among the ranks who will soon file into town...
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Michelle Hattingh’s I’m the Girl Who Was Raped will be available on 4 continents
We’ve sold rights to Michelle Hattingh’s brave, powerful, lucid memoir, I’m the Girl Who Was Raped to Inanna in Canada and to Spinifex in Australia – who have bought World English rights (apart from...
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