Out Now: Di Lu Galay, The Sorcerer's Truck. The Sylt Foundation is delighted to make one of the strong voices of Burmese contemporary poetry available in a new English translation. 27th April 2021, 7pm SAST >> read more

Di Lu Galay (born 1986) is one of the young poets playing an important role in the latest generation of poets in Burma. He is amongst the contributors of the Burma-based electronic arts journal Be Untexed. In 2021 Di Lu Galay will join the Sylt Foundation Virtual Writer's Retreat for ten months. >> read more

In 2018 Enrique Winter traveled through Poland for a research of his family roots and as a preparation for his novel about his paternal grandmother, who grew up in a small town near Warsaw and immigrated to Chile after World War II. His novel 'Krystyna' is published in 2021. On february 25th Enrique Winter is sharing excerpts from the novel and talks with us about how the power of literature reveals its deeper meanings, exposes what is lost and what still lasts. >> read more

This programme invites writers to share their cartography of becoming, how their writing empowered identity evaluations, supported the discovery of new possibilities of participation and dissent. A collaboration of the The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC) and the Sylt Foundation. >> read more

In this bimonthly series of talks at the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg South African writers met colleagues from all over the continents and from the African diaspora to discuss trends, topics and themes prevalent in their literatures today.Curators of the Literary Crossroads are Pumla Dineo Gqola and Indra Wussow. >> read more

A new edition of LiteraryCrossroads at Goethe-Institut Johannesburg. >> read more

Thanks to our 2016 literary crossroads writers - and we hope that you stay tuned four our 2017 programme! >> read more

Zimbabwean novelist and short story writer NoViolet Bulaway and Nigerian-born author Chika Unigwe will explore ‘The Written and Spoken Word’ under the Abantu Festival theme ‘Our Stories’. >> read more

Literary Crossroads is a new series of talks where South African writers meet colleagues from all over the continent and from the African diaspora to discuss trends, topics and themes prevalent in their literatures today. The series is curated by Indra Wussow, in cooperation with previous guests of literary crossroads. >> read more

Writing the human condition is the topic of this evenig. Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (South Africa) and Ngwatilo Mawiyoo (Kenya) are discussing with moderator Thabiso 'Afurakan' Mohare. >> read more

This event’s invited guests, Martin Egblewogbe and Nick Mulgrew, will explore everything that a collection of short stories should be. They will be in conversation with Ndumiso Ngcobo. >> read more

Topic: Rewriting South African Landscapes // This evening will offer insights in two very different literary advances to this South African heartland with its troubled history, its many cultures and its stories. How do both works reveal the changing landscapes with its changing social and political parameters? How do their perspectives differ? The young writer who has always admired the elder and his literary mastery will introduce his first novel. // Goethe-Institut Johannesburg >> read more

Negotiating the Private and the Public - how writers respond to change and transition. The discussion is presented by Indra Wussow >> read more

Topic: Language and identity in poetical writing >> read more

Join two South African authors Angela Makholwa and Henrietta Rose Innes as they discuss their individual takes on the topic of nature and imagination – what perceptions of nature and the supernatural exist in literary text. >> read more

This evening will offer insights into two different literary landscapes and two different approaches how to respond to the world as a writer and intellectual. >> read more

In this new bimonthly series of talks at the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg South African writers will meet colleagues from all over the continents and from the African diaspora to discuss trends, topics and themes prevalent in their literatures today. Curators of the Literary Crossroads are Pumla Dineo Gqola and Indra Wussow. The complete programme for 2015 is out now. >> read more

Two writers in different stages of their carreers share their texts and let us take part in their routines of writing: with Helon Habila (Nigeria) and Nthikeng Mohlele (South Africa). // Literary Crossroads. A new series of talks at the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, curated by Pumla Dineao Gqola and Indra Wussow >> read more

Dilman Dila (Uganda) meets Napo Masheane (South Africa) Presenter: Niq Mhlongo >> read more