26 July 2010
Writers write from experience. They also generally make up a whole bunch of stuff which is ironed into truth through extensive research. They are also inspired by other writers.
Author: Sally Partridge
Hidden places
13 July 2010
South Africa never ceases to amaze.
I remember one memorable holiday, back in my early twenties, when my partner and I embarked on a road trip up the West Coast. We drove for hours, trying out one small town after another, taking detour after detour, searching for the destination that would be just right.
Home Away
18 May 2010
Home Away, the collection of twenty-four short stories by twenty-four writers (including myself) has made the Exclusive Books’ Homebrew selection. The announcement came after three very favourable reviews.
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Zef so fresh
14 April 2010
A little article I wrote on Die Antwoord.
I remember when my friend Richard, my source of all things new and trendy happening in the city, invited me to go watch Jack Parow at the Assembly in Cape Town. I’ll admit I’ve never seen anything quite like it. Afrikaans rap? C’mon.
Not a week later Richard called me up and invited me to go see a band called Die Antwoord at Disko K in Loop Street. My first impression was that I had jumped headfirst into the rabbit hole, only to find myself in the deepest pit of the Cape Town underground.
Fast Fuse facts
July 8 2009
Some snippets from my interview with Hunter Kennedy from the launch of Fuse last night.
The original name for the novel was going to be Kaboom, after the Marilyn Manson song of the same name. I wanted a direct reference to the controversial singer but at the last minute decided to change it. I still managed to sneak a reference to him in the book, but you’ll have to read it to find it.
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The writing road
7 August 2009
For me, the realisation that I was a novelist first crept in to my mind at the Franschhoek Literary Festival.
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Culture vulture
20 July 2009
I’ve been so fortunate to have met some of my readers. Last year, some of the grade eleven students of Jan van Riebeeck High put on a stage adaptaption of my first book, The Goblet Club, called Gif. I saw them again at the launch of my second novel.
These kids, Danika, Anushka, and Fanie, now about to finish Matric, invited me to come and see their new play, Die Diensmeisies, which they conceptualised, acted in and directed all by themselves.
I can tell you, it blew me away.
Some thoughts on bullying
5 May 2009
Newspaper headlines are ghastly creatures, particularly when they gleam of sensationalism.
I am a journalist myself, so I know that after completing each article I need to come up with a witty one-liner to sum up what I’ve written. But I am also a reader, and I feel very strongly about certain subjects, as do many other people I know.
Gif, the play
6 August 2008
Andre Bester’s excellent stage adaption of my novel, The Goblet Club, entitled Gif, was performed last night by the talented students of Jan van Riebeeck High School as part of the Tienertoneelfees at the Klein Libertas Theater in Stellenbosch.
I couldn’t be more proud.
My first Cape Town Book Fair
June 7, 2008
I bid farewell to the Book Fair today and what a program it was this year! I even managed to convince my father to join me on Sunday which was quite a treat.
I wasn’t planning on going on Saturday but of course I was there as soon as the doors were opened, and I ended up leaving with a big carrier bag of books. (Like I do every year)
Then of course it was the Mnet and Via Afrika Awards on Saturday night where I received the M.E.R youth prize. I spent the first half of the evening leading up to the announcement in a state of pure terror and then upon hearing that I had won, I lapsed into a state of utter panic. I think I managed to walk into about three chairs during the duration of the evening. I’m utterly delighted at receiving the award but I think I’m going to let the shock last a bit longer. I’m still rather unsettled by it all.
Sunday was of course Fathers Day so I dragged my Dad off to the Fair to hear me speak for the first time in public. I think he was bit overwhelmed but I could see that he was proud as punch. After all, pleasing our dads is what its all about really isn’t it?
Today’s panel discussion with Sven Eick and Derick Muller focussed mainly on our novels and the characters within those novels, a subject that hasn’t come up in discussion before so it was a bit on the spot but enormously fun. I get very tongue-tied when I have to speak in public but it was nice sharing the floor with people you feel so at ease with. It makes it so much easier.
As far as loot goes I came out with quite a haul this year.
- 30 Days of Night graphic novel
- Constantine graphic Novel
- Edgar Allen Poe’s Haunt of Horror graphic novel
- Neil Gaiman’s The facts in the case of the departure of Miss Finch graphic novel
- Signed A Veil of Footsteps by Breyten Breytenbach
- Signed Apetown by Sven Eich
- Sweeney Todd – the novel
- Moxyland plushie
Sally Partridge 