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Riddle Child

An astonishingly haunting novel from Penguin Books SA It’s hard to believe that this is a work of fiction, so real and raw is this account of the agony of ‘the task of steering a riddle child through life’ – Cape Argus Alexander is autistic. When he is nine years old he is found dead in a [...]

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Damon Galgut has won the 2008 University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing

                 Damon Galgut has won the 2008 University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing for The Impostor   In 2006, the University of Johannesburg instituted two prizes for Creative Writing in English: The UJ Prize for the best creative work in English The UJ Prize for the best creative debut work in English. The value of the 2008 prize for best [...]

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