About the author Ivan Vladislavić was born in Pretoria. He moved to Johannesburg in the seventies to study at Wits and has lived in the city ever since. He is one of South Africa’s foremost contemporary authors and, as an editor, has worked with many of South Africa’s major writers. Other titles by Ivan Vladislavić     •     Missing Persons 1990, winner of the Olive Schreiner Prize.     •     The Folly, 1993, winner of the CNA Prize     •     Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories, 1996, which contains the two stories that won the English           Academy’s Thomas Pringle Award for short fiction     •     blank_Architecture, apartheid and after, 1998, with Hilton Judin     •     The Restless Supermarket, 2001, winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Award.     •     T’kama-Adamastor, 2000, ed.     •     The Exploded View, 2004     •     Willem Boshoff, 2005     •     Portrait with Keys, 2006, winner of the Alan Paton Award and the University of Johannesburg Prize for best           creative work in English     •     Flashback Hotel, 2010 Title published by Umuzi/ Random House SA     •     The Exploded View, 2004     •     Portrait with Keys, 2006     •     Flashback Hotel, 2010 home   writers   books   contact   buy   rights all content © Umuzi, Random House Struik this website designed and maintained by Guanaco.co.za