Ivan Vladislavic

(Pretoria, South Africa, 1957) lives in Johannesburg where he works as a writer, journalist and editor. He has been awarded various prizes for his literary work, which includes amongst others his collection of short stories Missing Persons (1989) and his novel The Folly (1993) His most recent and well received book The Restless Supermarket (2001), is a slightly surrealistic story about a conservative, retired proofreader who has dedicated his life to reading phonebooks. The Dutch translation of this book (De rusteloze supermarkt) will be presented during the Winternachten festival.
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