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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1994
  • Latest Book:
    September 2020
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Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • A vacant patch of South African veld next to the comfortable, complacent Malgas household has been taken over by a mysterious, eccentric figure with "a plan." Fashioning his tools out of recycled garbage, the stranger enlists Malgas's help in clearin...



  • The Exploded View, from the masterful South African novelist Ivan Vladislavić, tells the story of four lives intertwined through the sprawling infrastructure on the margins of Johhanesburg: a stastician taking the national census, an engineer out on...



  • “Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil’s own job.”

    In this unusual text, a blend of essay, fiction, and literary genealogy, South African novelist Ivan Vla...



  • "I found myself in the thick of things. I shut my eyes experimentally, opened them again. If I was dreaming, the scene should change - but no, everything was exactly as it had been before."So begins A Labour of Moles, by one of South Africa...



  • "One of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today." -- André Brink

    Originally part of a collaborative project with photographer David Goldblatt, Double Negative is a subtle triptych that captures the ordinary life...



  • It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle's world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of proofreading telephone directories. His favourite neighbourhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Café Europa, is about to close its doors; the familiar ...



  • What kind of Detective am I? Eardrum or tympanum? Gullet or oesophagus? Pussy or pudenda? A Detective needs a language almost as much as a language needs a Detective. In this new collection of stories, award-winning author Ivan Vladislavic invites re...



  • Collects two volumes of short stories by one of contemporary South Africa's most acclaimed novelists.With a tender wit, Vladislavić cuts through the ordinary, the profound, and the truly perplexing to reveal absurdities and truisms alike. From a man...



  • From this celebrated South African writer comes a formally inventive, lyrical portrait of childhood, memory, and the art of writing itself. In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy, Joe, becomes obsessed with Muhammad Ali. He begins collecting ...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ivan Vladislavic has published 9 books.

Ivan Vladislavic does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Distance, was published in September 2020.

The first book by Ivan Vladislavic, The Folly, was published in June 1994.

No. Ivan Vladislavic does not write books in series.