Ivan Vladislavic

Ivan Vladislavić ( born 1957 in Pretoria) is a writer from South Africa.

Life

Ivan Vladislavić studied Afrikaans and English literature at the Witwatersrand University and lives in Johannesburg since the early 1970s. In the 1980s he worked as an editor of the opposition publishing " Ravan Press." He was co-editor of the magazine and Staffrider together with Andries Oliphant published the anthology Ten years of Staffrider. Since 1989 he works as a freelance editor and writer. He is the author of essays, novels and short stories, gave out works to contemporary art and architecture and wrote lyrics for books of photographer David Goldblatt and Roger Palmer.

In 1998 he received the invitation of the juror, Nobel Prize winner for literature, JM Coetzee, a grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and stayed on for a year in Germany. During this time the first cycles created for his book Portrait with Keys. Joburg and What -What (English title Johannesburg. Island by chance ), for which he was awarded the prestigious Sunday Times Alan Paton Award 2007.

As winner of the " Sylt source cultural award Southern Africa" ​​in 2008, he received a scholarship in Rantum on Sylt.

Vladislavić is married and lives with his family in 1992 in Kensington, the largest district of Johannesburg.

Quotes

  • "I have no great epic vision. The details interest me more. "
  • " Only a small percentage of society is criminal, but this part manages to take the rest hostage. "
  • " - Do not and as a result, the life of the other just poverty and unemployment also mean that those affected do not value their own lives. "

Awards

  • Olive Schreiner Prize (1991) for Missing Persons
  • CNA Literary Award (1993) for The Folly
  • Thomas Pringle Prize (1994 ) for the two narratives Propaganda by Monuments and The WHITES ONLY Bench
  • Noma Award for African Literature (1997): " Honourable Mention for Propaganda by Monuments".
  • Sunday Times Fiction Prize (2002) for The Restless Supermarket.
  • Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for Nonfiction (2007) for Portrait with Keys: Joburg & What -What.

Works

  • Missing persons. Stories. David Philip Publ, Cape Town, 1989, ISBN 0-86486-138-9. The final Terminalbar and other stories. Tales from South Africa. dipa -Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-7638-0323-8 ( translated by Gabriele Cenefels ).
  • The plan of the architect. Novel. dipa -Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1998, ISBN 3-7638-0355-6 ( translated by Marion Walter ).
  • Johannesburg. Island of Chance ( cities, Vol 19). A1 Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86615-802-3 ( translated by Thomas Brückner ).
  • With Hilton Yudin: blank_. Architecture, apartheid and after. David Philip Publ, Cape Town 1998, ISBN 90-5662-092-4 ( catalog of the exhibition at the Nederlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, December 16, 1998 to 30 March 1999).
  • T'kama Adamastor. Inventions of Africa in a South African painting. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2000.
  • Willem Boshoff (taxi, Vol 11). David Krut Publ, Johannesburg 2005, ISBN 0-9584860-1-8.
  • With Carlos Basualdo and Gabriele Guercio: William Kentridge. Tapestries. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. 2008, ISBN 978-0-87633-256-6 ( catalog of the exhibition of the same, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, December 12, 2007 to 6 April 2008).
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