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Ivan Vladislavić
Ivan Vladislavić
Born	Ivan Vladislavić; 17 September 1957 (age 66); Pretoria, South Africa
Nationality	South African
Occupation(s)	Author, editor, professor

Ivan Vladislavić (born 17 September 1957) is a South African author, editor and professor.^[1]^[2] Vladislavić's style has been described as postmodern, innovative, humorous and unpredictable.^[3]^[4]^[5] Despite receiving critical acclaim, his work is not well known outside his home country.^[6]

Biography edit

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.^[6]

He has worked as Social Studies Editor for anti-apartheid publishing house Ravan Press and as an editor for Staffrider magazine.^[7]

He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand.^[8]^[3]

Bibliography edit

Novels (fiction) edit

The Folly (1993; Archipelago Books, 2015; And Other Stories, 2015)
The Restless Supermarket (David Krut Publishing, 2001; And Other Stories, 2014)
The Exploded View (Random House, 2004, 2017; Archipelago Books, 2017)
Double Negative (2011; And Other Stories, 2013)
- Originally published in a joint project, alongside 300 photos from photographer David Goldblatt, under the title TJ/Double Negative (2010)^[9]
A Labour of Moles (2012)
- Illustrated novella designed by Sunandini Banerjee
The Distance (2019; Archipelago Books, 2020)

Collections edit

Missing Persons (1989)
Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (1996)
Flashback Hotel: Early Stories (2010; Archipelago Books, 2019)
101 Detectives (2015; And Other Stories, 2015)

Essays & Nonfiction edit

Willem Boshoff (David Krut Publishing, 2004), extended essay on the work of conceptual artist Willem Boshoff
Portrait with Keys (2006)
The Loss Library (2012)
- A hybrid work blending "essay, fiction and literary genealogy"^[9]

Interviews edit

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.

Awards and honors edit

1991: Olive Schreiner Prize, Missing Persons
1993: CNA Literary Award, The Folly
1994: Thomas Pringle Prize, "Propaganda by Monuments" and "The WHITES ONLY Bench"
1997: Honorable Mention, Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, "Propaganda by Monuments"
2002: Sunday Times Fiction Prize, The Restless Supermarket
2007: Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for Nonfiction, Portrait with Keys
2007: University of Johannesburg Prize, Portrait with Keys^[2]
2009: Long-listed, Warwick Prize for Writing, Portrait with Keys
2011: University of Johannesburg Prize, Double Negative^[2]
2011: M-Net Literary Awards, Double Negative
2015: Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Fiction, valued at $150,000^[10]

References edit

^ "Ivan Vladislavić". And Other Stories. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c MacKenzie, Craig (20 May 2011). "Vladislavic: Take two". The M&G Online. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c Cornwell, Gareth (2010). The Columbia guide to South African literature in English since 1945. New York : Columbia University Press. pp. 196–197. ISBN 978-0-231-50381-5.
^ Kitamura, Katie. "Ivan Vladislavić". Bomb Magazine. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^ Walder, Dennis (2000). "The Necessity of Error: Memory and Representation in the New Literatures". In Susheila, Nasta (ed.). Reading the 'New' Literatures in a Postcolonial Era. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. p. 157.
^ ^a ^b Hoby, Hermione (8 August 2017). "The South African Parables of Ivan Vladislavic". The New Yorker. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^ Reid, Katie (4 May 2021). "Small and joined in print: Ivan Vladislavić, "Tsafendas's Diary," and Staffrider magazine (1988)". Social Dynamics. 47 (2): 264–287. doi:10.1080/02533952.2021.1973335. ISSN 0253-3952.
^ "Q&A: Words on the Times with Ivan Vladislavic on "The Distance"". 2 October 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Ivan Vladislavic - Books". Ivan Vladislavic. 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
^ "Prize Citation for Ivan Vladislavić". Windham–Campbell Literature Prize. 24 February 2015. Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2015.