The programme includes internationally known authors, top South Africa writers, and some exciting excursions.
“The festival has grown steadily since its inception, but as far as interest and input are concerned, it has truly ‘taken off’ this year,” says Brian Wilmot, one of the organisers and curator of Cradock’s Olive Schreiner Museum. “An excellent mix of new and well-loved writers will talk, read, socialize at leisurely meals and participate in fireside chats. Among them are Etienne van Heerden, one of South Africa’s best loved novelists, Margie Orford, who is hailed as ‘the Queen of South African crime fiction’, and Rachel Holmes, who ran the London Literary Festival for four years.”
Rachel recently spent time in Cradock researching the crucial political, personal and emotional friendship between Olive Schreiner and Eleanor, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, for a new book to be launched early next year. Rachel has written the biographies of Saartjie Baartman, “the Hottentot Venus”, and Dr James Barry, the highly-acclaimed 19th nineteenth century military doctor and friend of Cecil John Rhodes, who was found to be a woman after he died.
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