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New Books in Literary StudiesMachine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (EH)Building parallels between technology and the human imagination, Masande Ntshanga’s conversation with Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra explains how cities are like machines and how South African history resembles some of the most sinister versions of techno-futurism. Masande is the author of two novels: The Reactive, winner of a Betty Trask Award in 2018, and Triangulum, nominated for the 2020 Nommo Awards for Best Novel in 2020 by the African Speculative Fiction Society. His responses to Magalí’s questions interweave autobiography and history, showing how when you venture into “underwritten spaces” in South Africa, realism starts to seem like speculation. Masande moves from playing bootleg Nintend...2024-06-0650 min
New Books in LiteratureMachine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (EH)Building parallels between technology and the human imagination, Masande Ntshanga’s conversation with Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra explains how cities are like machines and how South African history resembles some of the most sinister versions of techno-futurism. Masande is the author of two novels: The Reactive, winner of a Betty Trask Award in 2018, and Triangulum, nominated for the 2020 Nommo Awards for Best Novel in 2020 by the African Speculative Fiction Society. His responses to Magalí’s questions interweave autobiography and history, showing how when you venture into “underwritten spaces” in South Africa, realism starts to seem like speculation. Masande moves from playing bootleg Nintend...2024-06-0650 min
Novel Dialogue7.5 Machine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (EH)Building parallels between technology and the human imagination, Masande Ntshanga’s conversation with Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra explains how cities are like machines and how South African history resembles some of the most sinister versions of techno-futurism. Masande is the author of two novels: The Reactive, winner of a Betty Trask Award in 2018, and Triangulum, nominated for the 2020 Nommo Awards for Best Novel in 2020 by the African Speculative Fiction Society. His responses to Magalí’s questions interweave autobiography and history, showing how when you venture into “underwritten spaces” in South Africa, realism starts to seem like speculation. Masande moves from playing bootleg Nintend...2024-06-0650 min
The BookendThe Bookend with Masande NtshangaIn this episode The Bookend sits down with Masande Ntshanga- a trailblazer in the field of literature- the author of two award winning novels titled The Reactive and Triangulum, and a book of prose and poetry called Life in the Third Millennium. Apart from winning critical acclaims and literary awards, Masande has applied his tech savviness to pioneer an experimental press called MDLSEE MEDIA. Take a listen to his reading and conversation on how to combine tech with literature for sustainable income generation. Get reading with us. For requests, fea...2023-11-1532 min
LitHouse podcastMy African Reading List: Masande NtshangaMasande Ntshanga is a writer and poet, an editor of New Contrast Magazine and a teacher of creative writing. For his debut novel The Reactive, he was awarded the Betty Trask Award, while his second novel, Triangulum, was nominated for the Nommo Prize for Best Speculative Fiction Novel written by an African. His latest book is the 2020 chapbook Native Life in the Third Millennium.This is Masande's reading list:Imraan Coovadia, Tales of the Metric System A Spy in TimeK. Sello Duiker, The Quiet Violence of DreamsNjabulo Ndebele, Fools a...2023-08-0634 min
Litteraturhusets podkastMy African Reading List: Masande NtshangaMasande Ntshanga er forfatter og poet, redaktør for New Contrast Magazine og underviser i kreativ skriving. Debutromanen hans The Reactive vant Betty Trask Award, og hans neste roman, Triangulum, ble nominert til Nommo Prize for beste spekulativ fiksjonsroman skrevet av en afrikaner. Hans seneste utgivelse er chapboka Native Life in the Third Millennium, utgitt i 2020.Dette er Masandes leseliste:Imraan Coovadia, Tales of the Metric System A Spy in TimeK. Sello Duiker, The Quiet Violence of DreamsNjabulo Ndebele, Fools and Other StoriesI denne podkastserien inv...2023-08-0634 minLitteraturhusets podkastFagre nye verdener. Foredrag ved Masande Ntshanga«For meg har science fiction som sjanger alltid vært koblet til kritikk av maktstrukturer,» har forfatter Masande Ntshanga uttalt. Som ung leste han mye science fiction, og hans seneste roman, Triangulum, henter flere elementer fra sci-fi-sjangeren.Science fiction, spekulativ fiksjon og afrofuturisme er litterære sjangre som er på frammarsj i mange land, inkludert her i Norge og i Ntshangas hjemland, Sør-Afrika.Hva er det som gjør science fiction til en foretrukket form for å utforske mulige framtidsscenarier eller plukke fra hverandre dagens maktstrukturer?I dette personlige foredraget vil Ntshanga...2023-07-1450 minLitteraturhusets podkastFull fart mot fortiden. Masande Ntshanga og Julia WiedlochaÅret er 2043, og en astronom ved det sør-afrikanske romsenteret får tilsendt en pakke full av dokumenter, med en advarsel om at verden vil gå under om ti år.Dokumentene er dagboksnotater og lydfiler som skildrer oppveksten til en jente, først på 1990-tallet, mens hun lever ut ungdomstiden, utforsker egen seksualitet og forsøker å spore opp moren, som forsvant sporløst da hun var liten, og deretter når jenta har blitt voksen.Gjennom jentas historie ser vi hvordan Sør-Afrikas mørke fortid er med på å forme nåtiden, og hvordan den spei...2023-07-091h 00LitHouse podcastForwards Toward the Past. Masande Ntshanga and Julia WiedlochaThe year is 2043, and an astronomer at the South-African Space Agency receives a package filled with documents, which contain a warning that the earth will end in 10 years.The documents are diary entries and audio tapes by a girl, relaying first her adolescence in the 1990s, when she explores her sexuality and tries to find her mother, who disappeared without a trace when she was little, and then moving to her daily life as an adult.Through the history of the girl, we see how South-Africa’s dark past is still shaping its pr...2023-07-091h 00LitHouse podcastBrave New Worlds: Personal lecture by Masande Ntshanga«I’ve always found Science Fiction to be a form that’s irrevocably linked to critiques of power and societal structures,» writer Masande Ntshanga has said. During his adolescence, he read a lot of science fiction, and his latest novel, Triangulum, makes use of several elements from the genre.Science fiction, speculative fiction and afrofuturism are literary genres on the rise on many countries, including Norway and Ntshanga’s home country, South Africa. What makes science fiction the preferred genre in which to explore possible future scenarios, or in which to pick apart contemporary power structures?2023-06-2550 min
The Empty Chair by PEN SAMoving Through Cities and SentencesIn our seventh episode, Cape Town-based writer, editor and lecturer Masande Ntshanga interviews Renee Gladman, an American writer and artist.
Masande asks Renee about her Ravicka novels (Dorothy, a publishing project), Samuel R. Delany, experimental poets, drawing and writing cities, her forthcoming book about Black futurity, Plans for Sentences (Wave Books), and what it means to be a Black person writing.
In this episode we stand in solidarity with renowned Belarusian philosopher Uladzimir Mackievič. On 17 February it was reported that he had ended his hunger strike, but he remains in pre-trial detention in Minsk. You ca...2022-03-1050 min
Books Stories PeopleMICHAEL KING, KARINA SZCZUREK & MASANDE NTSHANGA – By complete ContrastLast year New Contrast, one of SA’s very first literary journals, celebrated 60 years in print. With two editors and a many-hatted admin, we take a look at its past, present and future.2021-08-1230 min
Joy Keys chats with South African Author Masande NtshangaAuthor Masande Ntshanga is the winner of the inaugural PEN International New Voices Award 2013, and was a finalist for the Caine Prize 2015. He was born in South Africa, and graduated from the Univeristy of Cape Town. There he completed his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation. He has received a Fulbright Award, an NRF Freestanding scholarship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship and a Bundanon Trust Award. His work has appeared in The White Review, Chimurenga, VICE and n+1.
Books: The Reactive(2014) and Triangulum(2019)2020-07-1830 min
A Readers' CommunityEternal Space for Discovery with Rémy NgamijeIn this week’s episode, we speak to Rémy Ngamije, the Rwandan-born Namibian author of 'The Eternal Audience of One', about his meteoric rise from being an unpublished writer to a star on the African literary scene in less than a year, and we hear book recommendations from Book Lounge staff.Unathi recommends ‘The Hate U Give’ by Angie Thomas and Luami enjoyed ‘Toe Ons Oneindig Was’ by Zelda Bezuidenhout. Mervyn talks about ‘Brutal School Ties’ by Sam Cowen. Rémy’s list of authors is: Kalaf Epalanga, Ondjaki, Maaza Mengiste, Zukiswa Wanner, Mohale Mashigo, Nozizwe Cynthia Jele, Masande Ntshanga, Bisi Adj...2020-07-0230 min
All the Books!E208: 208: New Releases and More for May 14, 2019This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss The Den, There's Something about Sweetie , Lanny , and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Lanny by Max Porter
Rabbits for Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum
The Den: A novel by Abi Maxwell
There's Something about Sweetie by Sandhya Menon...2019-05-1439 min
2018: SkrywersfeesBOEKKLUB: 55 VOOR 12/ 55 TO 12 – SKRYWERS OM DIE LANGTAFELMet: Jacques Pauw, Valda Jansen,
Alexandra Fuller, SJ Naudé, Masande.
Ntshanga, Eben Venter, Fred Khumalo,
Karin, Ghaireyah Fredericks, Jolyn Phillip,
Sean Christie en Heindrich Wyngaard.
Twaalf skrywers – Afrikaans en Engels –
kom bymekaar teen die agtergrond van
toenemende vreemdelingehaat, onrus
wêreldwyd en die verkrummeling van
magstrukture om vrae uit te trap, soos wat
beteken dit om in vandag se werklikheid
te skryf en wie kry die reg om sê wat dié
werklikheid is? Kan jy nog as skrywer ’n
bydrae maak om 55 minute voor 12?
Jean Meiring tree op as gespreksleier.2018-05-041h 31
Otherppl with Brad ListiEpisode 446 — Masande NtshangaMasande Ntshanga is the guest. His debut novel The Reactive is now available in the United States from Two Dollar Radio. It is the official December pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. In today's monologue, I get right to the interview. Happy New Year, everybody! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2016-12-281h 03
This Podcast Will Change Your Life.This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Forty-Three - In Motion.This episode stars Masande Ntshanga (The Reactive). It was recorded in Chicago, IL at Revival Food Hall in September 2016.2016-10-1748 min
TK with James Scott: A Writing, Reading, & Books PodcastEp. 16: Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes & Janet Geddis from Avid BookshopSet in Spain in the late 70s, Gabrielle's debut novel, THE SLEEPING WORLD, represents something deeply personal to her. She tells James about writing through grief, how the novel grew from a short story inspired by a song, as well as world building, dirt, and 'the spaghetti mind.' Plus Janet Geddis, the owner of Avid Bookshop in Athens, GA, shares exciting news and she and James geek out over upcoming fall titles. James and Gabrielle Discuss: Keith Waldrop LADY AND THE TRAMP Jamaica Kincaid "Runaway", THE NATIO...2016-09-131h 24
Yebo! - L'Africa è in ondaYebo! L'Africa è in onda - Il reattivoQuesta settimana Gaia Manco incontra lo scrittore sudafricano Masande Ntshanga: il suo primo romanzo, The Reactive, è stato un best-seller in Sudafrica. Ntshanga racconta la vita di giovani che sono stati abbandonati dalle famiglie, che vivono di espedienti criminali e che hanno smesso di sperare in un Sudafrica migliore. Foto: lo scrittore Masande Ntshanga2015-12-2206 min
LiteratureLiterature: Masande Ntshanga, GG Alcock, Arthur AttwellMasande Ntshanga- winner of the 2013 pen International New Voices Award talks about: Book Title:“The Reactive",GG Alcock- Political Activist, Community Worker & African Adventuter: Book Title: "Third World Child-Born White, Raised Zulu"Arthur Attwell- Director @ Electric Book Works2014-11-1650 min