Let’s start out with some Catalyst news! Niki Daly, the author of several children’s books including the Lolo series, was recently awarded a South African Children’s Laureate Award by the University of the Western Cape Faculty of Education and the SA Festival of Children’s Literature. In presenting Niki the prize, children’s lit scholar and editor Dr. Mia Oosthuizen, said it nicely “you capture the imagination and children’s magnificent everyday lives.”
“Thirty years ago, few people in the art world were interested in Africa. The images of the continent that circulated at the time were primarily news images of famines and wars. At best, people had an exotic vision of it.” Great article on how Revue Noire, a magazine and publishing house that brought a nuanced view of Africa through photography.
Our friend Lizzy Attree has a wonderful essay at Africa is a Country on what literature can teach us about our connections to nature and what we owe to the Earth. We are thrilled to be working with Lizzy, and all of the wonderful folks at Short Story Day Africa to release Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa in September. Continue reading “This Week in Literary News: Week of July 18”