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Key environmental issues will be discussed at week-long literary event in Galway
Exile and memory stalk Russian writer Andrei Makine
Andrei Makine’s fiction conveys a mood closely linked with his dislocation
Justin Cartwright: ‘I have a theory this might have been the start of apartheid’
Justin Cartwright’s new book starts off swooning over the idyllic side of South Africa before taking in the awful history of murder and massacre between Boers and Zulus
Eileen Battersby’s favourite African writers
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To mark Freedom Day in South Africa, the Irish Times literary correspondent offers her selection of its finest literary works
Choose your future. Choose life. Choose a different book to read: The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins
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Mild and quietly tormented: EM Forster’s inner life
Damon Galgut’s new novel could easily be yet another work of lightly fictionalised biography, yet it is far more than that
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