Ivan Vladislavić

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Ivan Vladislavić (* 1957 in Pretoria ) is a writer from South Africa .

Life

Ivan Vladislavić studied Afrikaans and English literature at the Witwatersrand University and has lived in Johannesburg since the early 1970s . In the 1980s he worked as an editor for the opposition publishing house "Ravan Press". He was co-editor of Staffrider magazine and published the anthology Ten years of Staffrider with Andries Oliphant . Since 1989 he has been working as a freelance editor and writer. He is the author of essays , novels and short stories, edited works on contemporary art and architecture and wrote texts for books by the photographers David Goldblatt and Roger Palmer.

In 1998, at the invitation of the juror, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature JM Coetzee , he received a scholarship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and stayed in Germany for a year. During this time he wrote the first cycles for his book Portrait with Keys. Joburg and What-What (Eng. Title Johannesburg. Insel aus Zufall ), for which he received the prestigious Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in 2007 .

As the winner of the “sylt quelle cultural award Southern Africa”, he received a scholarship in 2008 in Rantum on Sylt.

Vladislavić is married and has lived with his family in Kensington, a district of Johannesburg, since 1992.

Quotes

“I don't have a big epic vision. I'm more interested in the details "

- Ivan Vladislavić : In the streets of Johannesburg

"Only a small percentage of society is criminal, but this part manages to take the rest hostage"

- Ivan Vladislavić : In the streets of Johannesburg

"Poverty and unemployment mean that those affected do not value their own lives - and as a result, they do not value the lives of others either"

- Ivan Vladislavić : In the streets of Johannesburg

Awards

Works

as an author
  • Missing persons. Stories . David Philip Publ., Cape Town 1989, ISBN 0-86486-138-9 .
    • The Terminal Bar and Other Definitive Stories. Stories from South Africa . dipa, Frankfurt am Main 1994 (translated by Gabriele Cenefels), ISBN 3-7638-0323-8 .
  • The Folly . David Philip Publ., Cape Town 1993, ISBN 0-86486-237-7 .
    • The builder's plan. Novel . dipa, Frankfurt am Main 1998 (translated by Marion Walter), ISBN 3-7638-0355-6 .
  • Propaganda by monuments & other stories . David Philip Publ., Cape Town 1996, ISBN 0-86486-315-2 .
  • The Restless Supermarket . David Philip Publ., Cape Town 2001, ISBN 0-86486-491-4 .
  • The Exploded View . Random House, Cape Town 2004, ISBN 0-9584468-6-5 .
  • Portrait with Keys: the city of Joburg unlocked. Norton Books, New York 2009 (EA as Portrait with Keys. Joburg and What-What. Umuzi, Cape Town 2006), ISBN 978-0-393-33540-8
    • Johannesburg. Island by chance (= metropolises , volume 19). A1 , Munich 2008 (translated by Thomas Brückner), ISBN 978-3-86615-802-3 .
  • With David Goldblatt : TJ / Double Negative. Contrasto, Roma 2010, ISBN 978-88-6965-272-1 .
  • The Distance . Umuzi, Cape Town 2019.
    • Exchange of blows. Novel. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2020 (translated by Thomas Brückner), ISBN 978-3-8031-3320-5
as editor
  • with Hilton Judin: blank_. Architecture, apartheid and after . David Philip Publ., Cape Town 1998, ISBN 90-5662-092-4 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name at the Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Rotterdam, December 16, 1998 to March 30, 1999).
  • T'kama Adamastor. Inventions of Africa in a South African Painting. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2000.
  • Willem Boshoff (= Taxi , Volume 11). David Krut Publ., Johannesburg 2005, ISBN 0-9584860-1-8 .
  • with Carlos Basualdo and Gabriele Guercio: William Kentridge. Tapestries. Yale University Press, New Haven, CN 2008, ISBN 978-0-87633-256-6 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Philadelphia Museum of Art , December 12, 2007 to April 6, 2008).

literature

  • Gloria A. Pillay: The apocalyptic in three South African Novels. "A ride on the whirlwind" (1981) by Sipho Sepamla, "The folly" (1993) by Ivan Vladislavic and "Foytrot van die vleiseters" (1993) by Eben Venter. Durban 1996, OCLC 416672981 (Thesis (MA) University of Durban-Westville , Department of South African Language and Literature, 1996, 112 pages, English).
  • Gerald Gaylard (Ed.): Marginal spaces. Reading Ivan Vladislavic . WUP, Johannesburg 2011, ISBN 978-1-86814-536-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Der Tagesspiegel from May 25, 2008: "In the streets of Johannesburg"
  2. ^ Winning titles. In: The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. Archived from the original on August 10, 2010 ; accessed on August 21, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Vladislavić, Ivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretoria