Harry Kalmer

Books on prize lists

• In ’n land sonder voëls

  No English yet

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  UJ-prys 2020 · Shortlist

  In ’n land sonder voëls

  AITitle translated by AI:“In a Land Without Birds”

  Harry Kalmer · 63 when first published

  Novel · Speculative, Politics

  AIAI-generated summary:In the fifteenth year of the Econocracy, democracy is a thing of the past, a Corporation rules and nature is out of control. Adam, a man whose sight is failing, has lost his daughter Jemima, and his wife Sybille is gone too.

• ’n Duisend stories oor Johannesburg

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  UJ-prys 2015 · Shortlist

  A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg

  ’n Duisend stories oor Johannesburg

  Harry Kalmer · 58 when first published

  Novel · 329 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Interwoven stories of Johannesburg people, emigrants, returnees and those who never left, through the twentieth century, from a concentration-camp tent in Turffontein to a couple whose love is illegal and a xenophobic murder in 2008.