Double Negative (23 page)
Authors: Ivan Vladislavic
Tags: #Contemporary, #Contemporary Fiction, #literary fiction, #South Africa, #apartheid, #Johannesburg, #photography, #memory, #past, #history, #art, #racial tension, #social inequality, #gated community, #activism, #public/private, #reality, #politics, #the city, #psycho-geography, #University of Johannesburg Creative Writing Prize, #David Goldblatt, #double exposure, #college dropout, #1980s, #Bez Valley, #suburbs, #letters, #André Brink, #South African Sunday Times fiction prize
Current & Upcoming Books by And Other Stories
01
Juan Pablo Villalobos,
Down the Rabbit
Hole
translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey
02
Clemens Meyer,
All the Lights
translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire
03
Deborah Levy,
Swimming
Home
04
Iosi Havilio,
Open
Door
translated from the Spanish by Beth Fowler
05
Oleg Zaionchkovsky,
Happiness is Possible
translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield
06
Carlos Gamerro,
The Islands
translated from the Spanish by Ian Barnett
07
Christoph Simon,
Zbinden's Progress
translated from the German by Donal McLaughlin
08
Helen DeWitt,
Lightning
Rods
09
Deborah Levy,
Black Vodka: ten stories
10
Oleg Pavlov,
Captain of the Steppe
translated from the Russian by Ian Appleby
11
Rodrigo de Souza Leão,
All Dogs are
Blue
translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry & Stefan Tobler
12
Juan Pablo Villalobos,
Quesadillas
translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey
13
Iosi Havilio,
Paradises
translated from the Spanish by Beth Fowler
14
Ivan VladislaviÄ,
Double Negative
Ivan VladislaviÄ
is the author of the highly praised novel
The Restless Supermarket
(2001) as well as award-winning non-fiction,
Portrait with Keys
(2006), which was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and won the Alan Paton Award. Originally part of a collaborative project with photographer David Goldblatt,
Double Negative
was shortlisted for the South African
Sunday Times
Fiction Prize 2011 and won the University of Johannesburg Creative Writing Prize 2010/11. VladislaviÄ currently lives in Johannesburg.
Born in the US in 1975 and brought up in Nigeria,
Teju Cole
is the author of a novella with photographs,
Every Day is for the Thief
, and a novel,
Open City
, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and named one of the best books of 2011 by the
New Yorker
and the
New York Times
. He is an art historian and street photographer, and currently Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.
Title:
Double Negative
Author: Ivan VladislaviÄ
Editors: Michael Titlestad & Sophie
Lewis
Proofreader: Emma Wilkin
Typesetter: Tetragon
Set in: 10/15pt Swift Neue Pro, Verlag
Series & Cover Design: Joseph Harries
Format: B Format with French
flaps
Paper: Munken Premium Cream 17.5 80gsm
FSC
Printer: T J International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall
