Ivan Vladislavic

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Ivan Vladislavić
Born
Ivan Vladislavić

(1957-09-17) 17 September 1957 (age 68)
OccupationsAuthor, editor, professor

Ivan Vladislavić (born 17 September 1957) is a South African novelist, essayist and editor.[1][2] Vladislavić's style has been described as postmodern, innovative, humorous and unpredictable.[3][4][5] He has won numerous awards including Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction.[6] He lives in Johannesburg where he is a Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand.[7]

Biography

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Vladislavić was born in Pretoria in 1957.[3] His father was a mechanic of Croatian heritage and his mother was a housewife. He attended the University of the Witwatersrand and graduated in 1979.[8]

He has worked as Social Studies Editor for anti-apartheid publishing house Ravan Press and as an editor for Staffrider magazine.[9]

He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand.[10][3]

Bibliography

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Novels

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Collections

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  • Missing Persons (1989 New Africa Books David Philip)[24]
  • Propaganda by Monuments (1996 New Africa Books David Philip;[24]
  • Flashback Hotel: Early Stories (2010 Penguin Random House;[25] 2019 Archipelago Books)[26]
  • 101 Detectives (2015 Penguin Random House; And Other Stories, 2015)[27]

Essays & Nonfiction

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  • Willem Boshoff (2005 David Krut Publishing), extended essay on the work of conceptual artist Willem Boshoff
  • Portrait with Keys (2006 Umuzi, Cape Town; Portobello, London; 2009 Norton, New York).[28]
  • The Loss Library and other unfinished stories (2011 Penguin Random House Umuzi, Cape Town; 2012 Seagull Books, Calcutta). A hybrid work blending "essay, fiction and literary genealogy"[19][29]
  • The Near North (2024 Pan Macmillan Picador)[30]

As Editor

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  • Ten Years of Staffrider Magazine: 1978–1988, an anthology of the best work from the magazine, compiled and edited with Andries Oliphant (Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1988)[31]
  • blank_Architecture, apartheid and after, edited with Hilton Judin (1998 Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; New Africa Books David Philip, Cape Town).[32]
  •  T’kama-Adamastor: Inventions of Africa in a South African Painting (2000 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)[33]
  • Ponte City, edited for Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse (Steidl, Göttingen, 2014)[34]
  • My Mother’s Laughter: Selected Poems of Chris van Wyk, edited with Robert Berold (2020 deep south books, Grahamstown/Makhanda) [35]

Selected interviews

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  • Steyn, Jan, 'Interview with Ivan Vladislavić' The White Review, August 2012 [1]
  • De Kok, Ingrid, 'Ivan Vladislavić: The Restless Supermarket,' World Literature Today, January 2002
  • De Vries, Fred, 'Joburg’s ambiguity mirrored in Portrait,' The Weekender, 9 September 2006
  • Jooste, Pamela, 'In Conversation with Ivan Vladislavić,' LitNet, March 2005 [2]
  • Warnes, Christopher, 'Interview with Ivan Vladislavić,' Modern fiction studies, 46 (1) Spring, 2000: pp 280.
  • Interview with Ivan Vladislavić on The Ledge, an independent platform for world literature. Includes excerpt and audio.
  • Malec, Jennifer ‘The fallible memory is surely at the heart of writing fiction’—Jennifer Malec interviews Ivan Vladislavić about his novel, The Distance,' The Johannesburg Review of Books, 6 May 2019[36]
  • Katie Kitamura, BOMB Magazine, No. 135, Spring 2016, pp. 72–8[37]
  • Gaylard Gerald, At Home With Ivan Vladislavić: An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City (Routledge 2023)[38]
  • Hoby Hermione, 'The South African Parables of Ivan Vladislavić, The New Yorker, 8 August 2017[39]
  • Poyner Jane and Jewel Josh, 'An Interview with Ivan Vladislavić', Contemporary Literature, University of Wisconsin Press 20, June 2022[40]
  • Msimang Sisonke, 'Acts of Faith and Frightening Fictions: An interview with Ivan Vladislavić' Wasafiri Vol 36, Issue 3, 3 July 2021[41]

Awards and honors

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References

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