‘Vladislavić is a rare, brilliant writer. His work eschews all cant. Its sheer verve, the way it burrows beneath ossified forms of writing, its discipline and the distance it places between itself and the jaded preoccupations of local fiction, distinguish it.’ – Sunday Times
Flashback Hotel combines two critically acclaimed collections of Vladislavić’s short stories, Missing Persons (1990) – for which he received the Olive Schreiner Prize – and Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (1996).
About the author
Ivan Vladislavić was born in Pretoria. He moved to Johannesburg in the seventies to study at Wits and has lived in the city ever since. One of South Africa’s foremost contemporary authors, his work include The Exploded View (2004) and Portrait with Keys (2006). As an editor, Vladislavić has worked with many of South Africa’s major writers. He co-edited blank_Architecture, apartheid and after (1998) with Hilton Judin and edited T’kama-Adamastor (2000), a book of essays on the painting by Cyril Coetzee. In 2004 he coordinated the Johannesburg exhibition of Second Aid and researched and wrote Willem Boshoff, a monograph on the South African conceptual artist, published in 2005.
Missing Persons (1990), his first volume of short stories, won the 1991 Olive Schreiner Prize. The Folly (1993) won the CNA Prize. Two stories in Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (1996) won the English Academy’s Thomas Pringle Award for short fiction. The Restless Supermarket (2001) won the 2002 Sunday Times Fiction Award. Portrait with Keys won the 2007 Alan Paton Award and the 2007 University of Johannesburg Prize for best creative work in English.
Book details
- Flashback Hotel: Early Stories by Ivan Vladislavić
EAN: 9781415201077
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