Crooked seeds | Summer School

CROOKED SEEDS

Dr Karen Jennings, author; Pippa Hudson, radio presenter

Saturday 25 January  1.00–2.00 pm  COURSE FEES R110; Staff and students R55

‘Crooked Seeds is masterful in its intent and execution and with it, Karen Jennings joins the ranks of South Africa’s great writers.’

Sarah L’Estrange, ABC Arts

Booker Prize longlisted author Karen Jennings will be in conversation with Cape Talk presenter Pippa Hudson about her new novel, Crooked Seeds.

This novel, in which a woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family’s troubling past, is a daring work of fiction about national trauma, collective guilt, the ways we become trapped in prisons of our own making and how we can begin to break free.

Join us in listening to this conversation about Karen Jennings’ compelling and engrossing 2024 novel.

Recommended reading

Jennings, K. 2024. Crooked Seeds. Cape Town: Random House Publishing Group.

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Karen Jennings is an author and scholar. She holds Masters degrees in both English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town, and a PhD in English Literature from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In 2018 she completed post-doctoral research at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil on the historical relationship between science and literature, with a focus on eusocial insects. She is currently registered at the University of Johannesburg for a PhD in History. She edited Feast, Famine & Potluck, a collection of African short stories published in 2014 by Modjaji Books for Short Story Day Africa. Her first novel Finding Soutbek was shortlisted for the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature (now known as the 9mobile Prize for Literature).^[7] Her book An Island, written with support from a Miles Moreland Foundation Writing Scholarship, was longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Crooked Seeds ii her latest novel and has received rave reviews in South Africa and word-wide