It used to be that authors only lived through their books & as a reader you could only rely on your imagination to imagine how they actually looked like beyond the grainy photo on the back cover of books. But in recent times there has been a boom in book festivals and some of these festivals are able to secure the presence of top authors: The following is my pick of six authors that you should try and hear in your lifetime. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is easily the most importan

Portrait of a Nobel Laureate By all accounts South African literature is enjoying its finest hour. Even as the scandal of dumped and undelivered textbooks in Limpopo was raging, the Polokwane Literary Festival was a welcome respite. That writers could descend on a town whose very name now resonates with the politics of succession and connect with readers was an act of faith in the power of literature. The Bloody Book Week was a great success and it brought to SA fiction A-lis