SUE RABIE, SIFISO MZOBE AND CHRIS MARNEWICK

CFI LECTURE THEATRE

60 MINS

SAT 1400

FREE

Sue Rabie...

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Chris Marnewick...

is an advocate and crime novelist.

Chris started writing Shepherds & Butchers in 2003 while teaching in New Zealand. It was published by Umuzi in 2008. The Soldier Who Said No followed in 2010. The third novel in the trilogy – A Sailor’s Honour - is due in September. Chris is also working on a work of creative non-fiction in Afrikaans. This book will attempt to solve the riddle of an old murder case dating back to 1957 when Clarence van Buuren was executed for the murder of Joy Aken, a Pinetown girl.

In 2009 Shepherds was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Africa Region) in the first book category and was shortlisted for the M-Net Main Award and also in the Film Category. The University of Johannesburg awarded Shepherds its prize for creative writing in the debut category in 2009. Shepherds was also awarded the K Sello Duiker Prize in 2010.

Chris ascribes his interest in reading and writing to two factors. The first is that his mother had taught him to read and write even before he went to school.The second reason for his interest in writing is that, as an advocate, he reads and writes for a living since much of the legal process is conducted in writing. And in the courts, he has found, fact is often stranger than fiction!

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Sifiso Mzobe...

is a freelance journalist and novelist who lives in the Durban township of Umlazi, where he was born. Sifiso got to hang out with fast-talking, fast-driving criminals while doing research for his critically acclaimed debut novel about hijacking culture, Young Blood, that was listed in The Sunday Independent’s ‘Top Ten Books Of 2010’. Young Blood also won the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for Fiction and The Sunday Times Fiction Prize for 2011. He is currently working on his next novel and something that is only vaguely resembling a screenplay.