Umuzi is delighted to announce that Jassy Mackenzie’s latest thriller, My Brother’s Keeper, is a finalist in the category for “Best Paperback” at the 2010 International Thriller Writers (ITW) conference, known as ThrillerFest V.
This is Jassy’s second nomination from ITW. In 2008, she was a semi-finalist in the category for “Best First Novel” with Random Violence.
ITW is an organization for thriller writers and hosts the largest community of thriller writers in the world. ThrillerFest V is ITW’s annual celebration of the thriller world. It will take place from 7 – 10 July 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City, where the winners will be announced. Special guests will include Ken Follett, David Morrell, Harlan Coben, Gayle Lynds, Lisa Scottoline, Mark Bowden, and Brad Meltzer.
My Brother’s Keeper tells the story of Nick Kenyon – a Joburg paramedic who unintentionally gets caught up with a gang of cold-blooded robbers who are planning their biggest-ever heist. However, what Nick doesn’t know is that his own brother, Paul, is the gang leader and has an old score to settle… The countdown to the heist begins, and the Kenyon brothers are pitted against each other in a deadly battle where there can be only one survivor.
Best of luck to Jassy!
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Umuzi congratulates renowned South African photographer David Goldblatt, who has received the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, “a prize to stimulate a photographer’s creativity by offering the opportunity to carry out a project that would otherwise be difficult to achieve.”
Goldblatt was honoured for his latest project, “TJ”, as collected in a forthcoming book, TJ: The Various Names of Johannesburg. As with his earlier work, Some Afrikaners Revisited, which featured contributions from, among others, Antjie Krog, Goldblatt has again teamed up with a writer, in this case Ivan Vladislavic, whose new novel, Double Negative, forms part of the book.
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David Goldblatt has been awarded the prestigious Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (2009), for his project “TJ”, . The award is intended for a photographer of exceptional ability who has an established career and has completed a significant body of work. This award will be followed by an exhibition of David Goldblatt’s essay of Johannesburg photographs at the Henri Cartier-Bresson in 2010.
Goldblatt has been photographing and documenting South African society for over 50 years. Born in Randfontein in 1930 to parents who came to South Africa to escape the persecution of Lithuanian Jews in 1890, he was simultaneously part of privileged white society and a victim of religious persecution and alienation. Motivated by his contradictory position in South African society, Goldblatt began photographing this society, and in 1963 decided to devote all of his time to photography.
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- TJ: The Various Names of Johannesburg by David Goldblatt (incorporating Double Negative by Ivan Vladislavic)
EAN: 9788869652189
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Tymon Smith speaks to Peter Harris, whose In a Different Time – shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award – tackles the great apartheid paradox, a period in SA’s history when heroism and horror went hand in hand. Here’s Harris on the Delmas Four and his book:
What was it about the Delmas Four that inspired you to write about the case?
The people involved were quite exceptional for a number of reasons: their humility; their lack of bravado in spite of being, dare I say it, a highly successful assassination unit. The stance they took in their trial was also exceptional, and there was the fact that the accused ended up in a particular section on death row next to an assassin from a police hit squad.
As the Delmas Four’s defence lawyer, how much of the trial research and records did you already have at your disposal when you started writing In a Different Time?
I had fairly detailed notes from the first statements I took when they were awaiting trial, as well as the trial notes that were taken during the trial. Of course, I also had the trial records and went to the National Archives in Pretoria, where I spent a lot of time working through records from the police investigation. The four of them and I also see each other on a regular basis and we’ve discussed this so many times over the last 20 years that it’s ingrained in our memories.
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Peter Harris’ In a Different Time is shortlisted for the 2009 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. Here, the newspaper’s books editor, Tymon Smith, speaks to the author about his gripping rendition of the inside story of the Delmas Four:
Podcast: Peter Harris in conversation with Tymon Smith
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