We are excited to announce that Letters to My Native Soil: Lewis Nkosi Writes Home (2001-2009) has finally hit South African shores! Published by LIT Verlag, the book has already been launched in Basel, Switzerland, with a South African launch to follow in the not-too-distant future. Expect some more news about a Durban launch soon. In the meantime, you can read more about the text, edited by Professor Lindy Stiebel of The University of KwaZulu-Natal and Professor Therese Steffen of the University of Basel:
Lewis Nkosi’s influence as both South African writer and critic has been profound. His significance stems from the fact that he was one of the very few surviving members of the Drum generation of writers of the 50s, one who continued to write throughout the apartheid and post-apartheid decades. Author of plays, critical essays and novels, Nkosi’s voice is preserved in Letters to My Native Soil which collects email correspondence between the writer and others and provides a valuable insight into a working writer’s life in Europe and at home. The book is illustrated with personal photographs and accompanied by Nkosi’s own work in the form of appendices.
