by Njabulo Ndebele
Picador Africa
reviewed by Ben Oswest
I fear that because of a silly error on my part, a legion South Africans will now think less of Ernest Hemingway. How, precisely, have I impugned Papa Doc’s reputation? By suggesting in print - to the heart-clutching horror of a few people at the Sunday Times - that he singled out Tom Sawyer
as the father of American literature. Any fool can tell you it was Huck Finn. How on Earth could anyone choose Tom Sawyer over Huck Finn - ? Answer: no one could, would, or, in fact, did. I actually knew this - spotted the error myself, in fact, after the fact - but for some reason I didn’t write it.
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Mary Watson, South African author of Moss, a collection of short stories (Kwela, 2004), has won the prestigious £10,000 Caine Prize for African Writing. The prize was awarded for the story “Jungfrau”, the opening piece in Moss.
Andre Brink & Mary Watson at the recent Cape Town Book Fair
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This story has now been posted: The Laddy Jones Story Part One.
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