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  • S07 E07 Damon Galgut

    S07 E07 Damon Galgut
    2026/05/04
    Damon Galgut is one of South Africa's most distinguished writers. He won the Booker Prize in 2021 for The Promise, which was his third novel to be shortlisted for the award.

    Damon joins Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel to talk about how writing seems to become more difficult as the years go by, and how strenuously he wrestles with a first draft.

    He tells us that plot has become increasingly less important to him and that he chooses not to repeat the same themes and techniques in his writing.

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    1 時間 14 分
  • S07 E06 Marguerite Poland

    S07 E06 Marguerite Poland
    2026/04/27
    Marguerite Poland is one of South Africa's most decorated authors, having won the Percy Fitzpatrick Award numerous times, as well as the Order of Ikamang for lifetime achievement. Her career spans many decades and includes books for children, works of non-fiction, and several critically acclaimed novels for adults.

    Marguerite joins Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel to talk about her earliest love for storytelling and what she would say now to a young mother who wants to write while struggling with the challenges of domestic life.

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    1 時間 12 分
  • S07 E05 David Cornwell

    S07 E05 David Cornwell
    2026/04/20
    David Cornwell is the author of the critically acclaimed novel HELL OF A COUNTRY, which has been making waves since its release date.
    David joins Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel to talk about the challenges of writing a fictional reimagining of real-life events and how he made his creative choices.
    We also discuss his first novel LIKE IT MATTERS and the literary antecedents behind it.

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    1 時間 7 分
  • S07 E04 Karen Jennings

    S07 E04 Karen Jennings
    2026/04/13
    Karen Jennings is an internationally acclaimed author whose work has been rewarded with a Booker Prize longlisting.

    Karen joins Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel to talk about how new ideas sometimes come to her in the form of a colour, and how she writes multiple drafts of the same manuscript in search of incremental improvement. She describes where she was and what she was doing when she found out about the Booker longlisting.

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    1 時間 3 分
  • S07 E03 Jassy Mackenzie

    S07 E03 Jassy Mackenzie
    2026/04/06
    Jassy Mackenzie is a multi-award-nominated author who combines talent with hard work and an excellent head for business.

    Jassy joins Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel to talk about how she got her start writing gritty, Joburg-based crime, before being approached to write with James Patterson. She talks about the obligations of being a contracted ghostwriter and how she is already planning to ensure the longevity of her writing career.

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    1 時間 11 分
  • S07 E02 Mike Nicol

    S07 E02 Mike Nicol
    2026/03/30
    Mike Nicol is one of South Africa's leading crime writers. His Mace Bishop and Fish Pescado series have enthralled readers for years.

    Mike joins Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel to talk about how he once wallpapered a room in his house with rejection letters. He describes how he found his latest protagonist Zara Dewane lurking in an earlier novel and decided to give her a story of her own. Falls the Shadow is out now from Pan Macmillan.

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    1 時間 13 分
  • S07 E01 Sally Andrew

    S07 E01 Sally Andrew
    2026/03/23
    Sally Andrew is a South African literary superstar. Her Tannie Maria books are loved by many thousands of readers and have been turned into a successful international TV series.

    Sally joins Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel to talk about how she plots her books under a huge and ancient tree, and how the voice of Tannie Maria arrived in her head fully formed. The fifth book in the Tannie Maria series, Wild Things Never Die, will be available in May.

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    58 分
  • S06 E10 Lauri Kubuitsile

    S06 E10 Lauri Kubuitsile
    2025/11/10
    Botswana-based Lauri Kubuitsile is the multi-award-winning author of The Scattering and But Deliver Us From Evil, as well as many, many books for children, teens, and adults.

    Lauri joins Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel to talk about writing what she likes and not being afraid to stand up for herself both creatively and in negotiating contracts.

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    1 時間 5 分