This is the first book in a three-year series of the HSBC/SA PEN Literary Award, with the winners selected by Nobel Laureate JM Coetzee. The award is targeted at young writers who are citizens of any country in the SADC region. The chosen genre for the series is a short story and this volume contains a selection of the best from 373 entries from southern Africa.
The stories that are included are:
Pius byElizabethAnnPienaar
Compass byFarhadAbdoolKaderSullimanKhoyratty
Ice with water by FatimaFionaMoolla
A Joburg story byDarrelBristow-Bovey
You should have called me Narcissus by Nicholas Dall
Kiwela byDinisFdaCosta
Still life in the art room by Liesl Jobson
Flowers for her by Pier Myburgh
Homing pigeons by Maxine Case
Life on the white line by Heinrich Lauw
The silver thread by Melanie Wright
The light at the end of the tunnel by Sil,ke Heiss
The trucker and the trucker's wife by Huw Morris
Leopard man by Jonathan Cumming
Black stone by Thishiwe Ziqubu
A story about Sam by Pier Myburgh
Even the rains are warm there by Carel Alberts
The broom plant by Jessica Druker
White boy by Kirsten Miller
We're never in such a hurry that speed is more important than safety by Gill Schierhout
Miscellaneous blues by Graham Carlson
Despair byBruceLeech
The hideous bride byJonathan Cumming
Pictures byTebogoCSengfeng
Hatchlings by JustinFox
War child evacuation by Kyne Nisuru Bernstorff
Genre: Literary Fiction
The stories that are included are:
Pius byElizabethAnnPienaar
Compass byFarhadAbdoolKaderSullimanKhoyratty
Ice with water by FatimaFionaMoolla
A Joburg story byDarrelBristow-Bovey
You should have called me Narcissus by Nicholas Dall
Kiwela byDinisFdaCosta
Still life in the art room by Liesl Jobson
Flowers for her by Pier Myburgh
Homing pigeons by Maxine Case
Life on the white line by Heinrich Lauw
The silver thread by Melanie Wright
The light at the end of the tunnel by Sil,ke Heiss
The trucker and the trucker's wife by Huw Morris
Leopard man by Jonathan Cumming
Black stone by Thishiwe Ziqubu
A story about Sam by Pier Myburgh
Even the rains are warm there by Carel Alberts
The broom plant by Jessica Druker
White boy by Kirsten Miller
We're never in such a hurry that speed is more important than safety by Gill Schierhout
Miscellaneous blues by Graham Carlson
Despair byBruceLeech
The hideous bride byJonathan Cumming
Pictures byTebogoCSengfeng
Hatchlings by JustinFox
War child evacuation by Kyne Nisuru Bernstorff
Genre: Literary Fiction
Used availability for J M Coetzee's African Compass