Abstract
Book Discussion
Imraan Coovadia is a writer and director of the creative writing programme at the
University of Cape Town. He is also the winner of the M-Net Prize, and a collection
of essays, Transformations (2012), which won the South African Literary Award for
Creative Non-Fiction. In 2010 his novel, High Low In-between, won the Sunday Times
Fiction Prize and the University of Johannesburg prize. He has published a scholarly
monograph with Palgrave, Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul (2009), two earlier
novels, and a number of journal articles. His fi ction has been published in a number of
countries, and he has written for many newspapers, journals, and magazines here and
overseas, including the New York Times, N+1, Agni, the Times of India, and Threepenny
Review.