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Gesels oor die Keurboslaanreeks by Woordfees

March 1st, 2010 by Chris

Keurboslaan gesels by Woordfees

Ongenooide gaste op KeurboslaanOp Woensdag 3 Maart gesels Irma du Plessis met Corina van der Spoel oor die Keurboslaanreeks en die relevansie daarvan in 2010.

Dit beloof om ‘n baie interessante gesprek te wees:

  • Datum: Woensdag, 03 Maart 2010
  • Tyd: 10:00 VM
  • Plek: Erfurthuis, Ryneveldstraat 37
    Stellenbosch | Kaart
  • Gassprekers: Irma du Plessis, Corina van der Spoel

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Nuut van Theunis Krogh: Misverstand op Keurboslaan

February 9th, 2010 by Chris

Misverstand op Keurboslaan In Misverstand op Keurboslaan kry ons Riek en sy vriende op pad lughawe toe om vir Josef, wat terugkeer van Engeland, te gaan oplaai. Hulle loop hulle egter vas in ’n avontuur. Hulle red twee Britse vlieëniers van ’n oproerige skare. Riek besluit om die twee mans tydelik op hulle plaas in Swaziland weg te steek. Josef daag met ’n vreemde meisie aan sy sy op en kondig aan dat hy kastig aan haar verloof is.

Oor die outeur

Theunis Krogh, pseudoniem van Stella Blakemore, is een van die mees geliefde jeugboekskrywers in Afrikaans. Haar Maasdorp en Keurboslaan reekse het ’n belangrike bydrae gelewer tot die Afrikaanse letterkunde en het vir baie jare jongmense lus en lief gemaak vir lees.

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Von Meck se Vaselinetjie is hartroerend, as boek én toneelstuk

February 1st, 2010 by Chris

Anoeschka von Meck

VaselinetjieMy Name is VaselinetjieAnoeschka von Meck se jeugboek, Vaselinetjie, is al herhaaldelik uit klaskamers gesteel, want dié voorgeskrewe boek beeld die verskiklike realiteit van baie tieners se lewens uit.

Von Meck het Saterdag in gesprek met Kabous Meiring by die Suidoosterfees gesê dat die hartseer omstandighede in die kinderhuis in haar boek op haar werklike ervaring as “kinderhuistannie” gegrond is.

“Ek moes die boek skryf om vir myself closure te gee. Ek kon ‘n bietjie afstand skep tussen my en dié kinders deur hulle op ‘n bladsy te plaas.”

In die Engelse weergawe van die boek, My name is Vaselinetjie, wat pas verskyn het, is daar ‘n naskrif oor wat van die kinders geword het. Baie van die meisies is nou prostitute of selfs dood.

Dit is omdat die boek ‘n mens so roer dat Henry Mylne ingestem het om die regie van ‘n toneelstuk oor Vaselinetjie te behartig. Die toneelstuk is die afgelope week by die Suidoosterfees opgevoer.

In die gesprek met Meiring het Mylne gesê die tiener toneelspelers in die stuk moes leer om met hul harte die rolle te vertolk. As hulle net hul intelek vir die spel gebruik het, sou hulle nie die gehoor oortuig het nie. “Elke mens het ‘n dark side. Hulle moes daarheen gaan om die karakters te word.”

Dean Smith (16), een van die akteurs, het verduidelik: “Ek moes al die emosionele goed wat al met my gebeur het, saamvat en op een moment uitstoot”.

Maar Mylne meen ook ‘n mens kan nie net vir ‘n gehoor drama gee nie. Komedie is nodig. “Daarom is Vaselinetjie so ‘n goeie toneelstuk, want Anoeschka se boek is ook deurspek van humor. Die een oomblik lag jy en die volgende oomblik huil jy.”

Die manier waarop haar boek in ‘n toneelstuk omskep is, is vir Von Meck ‘n groot komplement. Dit verleen ‘n nuwe dimensie aan haar werk met tonele wat sy nooit aan kon dink nie, gepaste musiek en beligting.

Kabous Meiring, Andrea Streso, Mar-li van der Merwe, Theunis Fick en Dean Smith Henry Mylne Anoeschka von Meck Anoeschka von Meck Anoeschka von Meck

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Anoeschka von Meck se Vaselientjie ‘n verhoogstuk by Suidoosterfees

January 21st, 2010 by Chris

VaselinetjieMy Name is VaselinetjieRegisseur Henry Mylne (van 7de Laan) is hard besig om ‘n span akteurs gereed te maak om Anoeschka von Meck se boek, Vaselientjie, eersdaags by die Suidoosterfees op die planke te bring. Mariana Malan het namens Beeld ‘n repetisie bygewoon en so bietjie met Mylne gesels oor die boek en die verhoogstuk. Vaselientjie sal vanaf Donderdag 28 Januarie by die Kunstekaap-teater te siene wees.

Anoeschka von Meck se boek,Vaselinetjie, kry eersdaags op die verhoog gestalte wanneer dit op die Suidoosterfees en die KKNK opgevoer word. Mariana Malan het by die repetisies vir die stuk gaan inloer.

Vaselinetjie is nie ’n tienerdrama nie, maar ’n drama met ’n rolverdeling wat hoofsaaklik uit tieners bestaan.

Die regisseur Henry Mylne (ook regisseur van 7de Laan) beklemtoon hierdie feit by herhaling. “Ek het die jong akteurs van die begin gewaarsku dat ek hulle soos professionele akteurs gaan hanteer. Ek het hulle gewaarsku dat ek ’n slawedrywer is en net met die beste tevrede sou wees.

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Video: Anoeschka von Meck gesels oor Vaselinetjie

November 10th, 2009 by Ronel S

VaselinetjieMy Name is VaselinetjieAnoeschka von Meck hoop Vaselinetjie is ‘n “blessing” vir enigeen wat dit lees.

Kyk hierdie video van NB-uitgewers op YouTube waarin Von Meck die boek bekendstel. Dit gaan oor ‘n wit meisie wat by ‘n bruin familie grootword en dan na ‘n kinderhuis gaan.

In die video is sy buite Calvinia in die Hantam Karoo. “Dit lyk nogal baie soos wat ek in gedagte gehad het toe ek die boek geskryf het,” sê sy.

Video: Anoeschka von Meck oor Vaselinetjie

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An Evening with Marlene Wasserman and Her Dr Eve’s Sex Book for Young People

October 8th, 2009 by Ronel S

Dr Eve's Sex Book - Launch InviteDr Eve's Seks Boek - Bekendstelling

NB Publishers invites you to an evening with Dr Marlene Wasserman, aka Dr Eve, who will chat about her Sex Book for Young People / Dr Eve se Seksboek vir Jongmense.

We will also be showcasing other life orientation titles from our list, as well as announce the first Inter-school Sex-education Challenge (with great prizes to be won)!

Please join us for a snack, a drink and an informative early evening session:

Event Details

  • Date: Tuesday, 13 October 2009
  • Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
  • Venue: Nasdak, Naspers Centre
    40 Heerengracht
    Cape Town | Map
  • RSVP: Alicia Hendricks, alicia.hendricks@nb.co.za, 021 406 3033

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Darrel Bristow-Bovey Receives the Percy FitzPatrick Prize for SuperZero (Video)

August 13th, 2009 by Ronel S

Geoffrey Haresnape and Darrel Bristow-Bovey

SuperZeroSouth Africa’s English Academy hosted an awards ceremony at Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre yesterday evening and, after poet and publisher Gus Ferguson received its highest award, the gold medal for services to English, Tafelberg author Darrel Bristow-Bovey and his young-adult novel, SuperZero, were recognised with the Percy FitzPatrick Prize for youth literature.

The Academy’s Stan Ridge read the judge’s citation, which is excerpted from here, and Geoffrey Haresnape presented the award.

Bristow-Bovey then gave a sparkling, off-the-cuff speech that took the importance of books for children as its theme. “It’s always been a dream of mine to deliver a speech that begins, ‘I would like to thank the Academy’… the Oscars are one thing, but to win the Percy…”

Watch Bristow-Bovey’s remarks:

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Bekendstelling Gedaantes en geraamtes: Omnibus 2 deur Louise Prinsloo

July 28th, 2009 by Ronel S

Gedaantes en Geraamtes Omnibus 2 - Bekendstelling

Human & Rousseau is baie opgewonde om aan te kondig dat Gedaantes en geraamtes: Omnibus 2 bekendgestel word by die St Paulus Kinderboekfees.

Kom ontmoet die skrywer, Louise Prinsloo. Sy vertel hoe sy haar navorsing oor spoke doen, en ná die tyd teken sy boeke. Vir oud, jonk en die wat nie kan besluit nie.

  • Datum: Saturday, 01 August 2009
  • Tyd: 9:30 AM for 10:00 AM
  • Plek: St Paulus Primary School
    Brummeria
    Pretoria
  • R30 toegang vir grootmense, R20 vir kinders
  • RSVP: Alicia Hendricks, 021 406 3477

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Now in English: Anoeschka von Meck’s Classic Vaselinetjie

July 14th, 2009 by Ronel S

My Name is VaselinetjieVaselinetjieMy name is Vaselinetjie was first published in Afrikaans in 2004 as Vaselinetjie. It was awarded the Jan Rabie/Rapport Prize, the MER Prize for youth literature and an M-Net prize in 2005. In 2006 it was selected as an IBBY Honour Book by IBBY South Africa. Tafelberg publishers is pleased to present this classic work in English, updated and revised by the author.

She is Helena Bosman, from a tiny little town lost in the vast expanses of the Northern Cape, but Grandpa and Grandma call her Vaselinetjie. She is their little angel from the veldt, the beginning and the end of their world. But when Vaselinetjie is ten years old, two officials from Welfare step in and she is sent away to a boarding school in Gauteng – the orphanage where Madiba’s reject children have to live.

It’s a strange, hard, dangerous world of scum children, bad-tempered matrons and a harsh, unfair principal; a world of smoking cigarette butts, having one’s hair shaved off and making plans to run away. It’s a world where no one bothers about anyone else, where you too learn not to give a damn.

But as the months turn into years, there is one name that crops up again and again: Texan Kirby. And that name does strange things to Vaselinetjie’s heart.

Translated by Elsa Silke.
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SA Partridge’s Fuse Heads to the Fore at the Book Lounge (Gallery, Videos)

July 8th, 2009 by Ronel S

FuseSA Partridge and Hunter KennedySA Partridge’s fellow novelist (and “I’m a Writer” competition winner) Derick Muller signalled the formal start of the launch of Fuse, Partridge’s second novel, by picking up his Valiant Swart-signed guitar and picking out a tune for the gathered crowd.

After singing “Perron van verlaatenheid”, Muller handed over to Partridge and another musician, Hunter Kennedy of Fokofpoliesiekar and aKing fame, for the main act – a conversation between the two in which music continued to feature.

This was no surprise: Fuse was first lit in Partridge’s imagination during the Morné Harmse saga, when elements of “fringe” culture, including bands like Slipknot, were blamed for the teenager’s violence.

Partridge thinks that music becomes a convenient scapegoat when adults search for the sources of waywardness in their children. A sounder place to look, she said, was in the behaviour of their peers, who can apply social pressure – through bullying, for instance – that becomes necessary to escape from or react to.

Video: SA Partridge on “why kids go out of control”

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With Fuse, SA Partridge cements her reputation as a writer who can enter the teenage world like no other. Her stories are so compelling, she says, because “like Kevin Brooks, I don’t write for teenagers, I write about teenagers”. Hunter Kennedy certainly felt the pull of her narrative: “I was really into metal when in High School, so I could relate strongly to the main character,” he told the author.

Video: SA Partridge on writing Fuse

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Guests lingered long after the conversation concluded, purchasing both Fuse and the author’s first book, The Goblet Club. A memorable night for a writer who’s sure to bring us further fascinating doorways into the world of teenagers soon!

Gallery

Danica van der Walt, Anushka Life, Fanie Fourie, Faan Fourie and Amanda Fourie Marisa Montemarano and Annie Devenish Derick Muller plays for the crowd Derick Muller SA Partridge and Hunter Kennedy SA Partridge SA Partride and Helen Moffett Moniqe Visser, SA Partridge and Jovan Fraser SA Partridge, Corinne Williams and Kardess Kock SA Partridge and Hunter Kennedy Ceri Prenter and Claire Richards Rayno von Schlicht, Barry Vorster and Francoin Visser Gert Wilmot, Charlene Ridgard, Marius Hitge, Reuben du Toit and Derick Muller Eileen Cavanagh, Ami Rademeyer, Michael Rademeyer and John Smyth Taryn Fowler and Anne-Marie Jordaan Front: Lance Gibbons, Kevin Kriedemann, Hunter Kennedy; Back: Taryn Fowler, SA Partridge, Anne-Marie Jordaan Bruce Plint, Moniqe Visser and Jovan Fraser Richard and Sally Dimblebee Adel Groenewald and Ben La Grange Marike Groenewald and Sarietha Engelbrecht SA Partride and Pa! Lucas Wheeler and Richard Parry-Davies Robin Jensen and Tom van den Berckt

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