Ivan Vladislavic

Ivan Vladislavić
Born
Ivan Vladislavić

(1957-09-17) 17 September 1957 (age 69)
Pretoria, South Africa
OccupationsAuthor, editor, professor

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

Biography

Vladislavić was born in Pretoria in 1957. 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.

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

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

Bibliography

Novels

Collections

Essays & Nonfiction

As Editor

Selected interviews

Awards and honors

References

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  2. 1 2 3 MacKenzie, Craig (20 May 2011). "Vladislavic: Take two". The M&G Online. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  4. ↑ Kitamura, Katie. "Ivan Vladislavić". Bomb Magazine. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Ivan Vladislavic Wins Yale University's Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction". Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  7. ↑ "Ivan Vladislavic Book | Penguin Random House South Africa". www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  8. ↑ Hoby, Hermione (8 August 2017). "The South African Parables of Ivan Vladislavic". The New Yorker. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ "Q&A: Words on the Times with Ivan Vladislavic on "The Distance"". 2 October 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  11. ↑ "The folly". libraryconnect.iie.ac.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  12. ↑ "The Folly". www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  13. ↑ "The restless supermarket". libraryconnect.iie.ac.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  14. ↑ "The Restless Supermarket". www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  15. ↑ "The Restless Supermarket". And Other Stories. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  16. ↑ Ajibade, Mayowa (January 2021). "Johannesburg Drift: Variations of the Uncanny in Ivan Vladislavić's The Exploded View". Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. 8 (1): 80–93. doi:10.1017/pli.2020.28. ISSN 2052-2614.
  17. ↑ "The Exploded View". www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  18. ↑ "The Exploded View by Ivan Vladislavić". Archipelago Books. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  19. 1 2 "Ivan Vladislavic - Books". Ivan Vladislavic. 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  20. ↑ "Double Negative". www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  21. ↑ "Double Negative". And Other Stories. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  22. ↑ "Sylph Editions | C17 A Labour of Moles". sylpheditions.com. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  23. ↑ "The Distance". Archipelago Books. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  24. 1 2 Malec, Jennifer (7 April 2017). "Ivan Vladislavić". The Johannesburg Review of Books. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  25. ↑ "Flashback Hotel". www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  26. ↑ "Flashback Hotel". Archipelago Books. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  27. ↑ "101 Detectives". And Other Stories. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  28. ↑ Morris, Jan (18 November 2006). "Mean streets". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  29. ↑ "The Loss Library". Seagull Books. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  30. ↑ "The Near North by Ivan Vladislavić". www.panmacmillan.co.za. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  31. ↑ Vladislavić, Ivan; Oliphant, Andries Walter. (1988). Ten years of Staffrider, 1978-1988. Johannesburg: Ravan Press.
  32. ↑ Marks, Rafi (1 March 2000). "Blank — Architecture, apartheid and after". Urban Forum. 11 (1): 162–164. doi:10.1007/BF03036837. ISSN 1874-6330.
  33. ↑ "T'kama-Adamastor : inventions of Africa in a South African painting | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  34. ↑ "Ponte City Revisited: 54 Storeys - Mikhael Subotzky, Patrick Waterhouse". Steidl Verlag. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  35. ↑ "'Lines and images stick in the mind years after they have been heard or read'—Read Ivan Vladislavić's Introduction to My Mother's Laughter, a new collection of poems by the late Chris van Wyk". The Johannesburg Review of Books. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  36. ↑ "'The fallible memory is surely at the heart of writing fiction'—Jennifer Malec interviews Ivan Vladislavić about his latest novel, The Distance". The Johannesburg Review of Books. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  37. ↑ "BOMB Magazine | Ivan Vladislavić by Katie Kitamura". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  38. ↑ "At Home with Ivan Vladislavić: An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  39. ↑ Hoby, Hermione (8 August 2017). "The South African Parables of Ivan Vladislavic". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  40. ↑ Poyner, Jane; Jewell, Josh (2022). "An Interview with Ivan Vladislavić". Contemporary Literature. 62 (2): 141–176. doi:10.3368/cl.62.2.141. ISSN 0010-7484. Archived from the original on 26 September 2023.
  41. ↑ Msimang, Sisonke (3 July 2021). "Acts of Faith and Frightening Fictions: An Interview With Ivan Vladislavić". Wasafiri. 36 (3): 26–31. doi:10.1080/02690055.2021.1918422. ISSN 0269-0055.
  42. ↑ "Prize Citation for Ivan Vladislavić". Windham–Campbell Literature Prize. 24 February 2015. Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2015.