Ivan Vladislavic: List of Works, Interviews, Awards, and a List of Books by Author Ivan Vladislavic

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Ivan Vladislavi? is a South African short story writer and novelist of Croatian origin . He lives in Johannesburg where he also works as an editor. In the eighties he worked as a fiction and social studies editor at Ravan Press. He was the assistant editor of Staffrider magazine for several years and compiled the commemorative anthology Ten years of Staffrider with Andries Oliphant.

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Vladislavic's style is postmodern, intermingling fantasy with references to historic events, enabling them to signify with symbolic meanings both within a South African context and beyond. His is a distinctively individual voice.

Missing Persons [Collection of short stories, 1989]
The Folly [Novel, 1993]

The Folly, situated in an apparently recognisable world, describes the building of a house from string, but the relevance extends to considerations of the imagination and to a satire of the political notion of constructing a new world. The novel received the CNA Literary Award.

Propaganda by Monuments [Collection of short stories, 1996]
The Restless Supermarket [Novel, 2001]

The Restless Supermarket is the etymologically dazzling story of Johannesburg suburb Hillbrow's makeover from frayed Euro-café society to shabby Afro-soul. Through the withering scorn of Aubrey Tearle, the novel's chief crank, we visit the dramatic moment - somewhere in the early 1990s - when these two worlds collide, often with hilarious results.

The Exploded View [Sometimes referred to as a collection of short stories, Vladislavic himself considers this work to be a novel in four parts, set in and around Johannesburg, Random House, 2004]

The Exploded View is composed of four interlinked stories that focusing on art and architecture: the places people choose to live and the things they seek to create, while his skill at handling subtle social commentary and political satire is evident throughout.

Willem Boshoff [An extended essay on the work of this conceptual artist, David Krut Publishing, 2005]
Portrait with Keys was published in June 2006, and is an archive of writings on a small segment of Johannesburg that has been walked, observed and reflected upon over the years by the author. Portrait with Keys consists of 138 numbered short texts, each addressing life in Johannesburg. The time frame stretches from recollections of the late 1970s to the immediate present. The protagonist is, in most instances, Ivan Vladislavi? himself, although there are dozens of other characters with whom he shares encounters and interactions. In June 2007 Vladislavic won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for Nonfiction for Portrait with Keys. The judges called it a masterpiece and found it indicative of a trend among South African nonfiction to look "inwards in order to examine the outwards."

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Total Books: 27

2020 - The Distance (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781939810762
ISBN-10: 1939810760
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

2020 - Distance (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9782889278060
ISBN-10: 2889278069
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2017 - The Exploded VIew (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780914671688
ISBN-10: 0914671685
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2016 - Exploded VIew Johannesburg (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783955101169
ISBN-10: 3955101169
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2015 - The Folly (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780914671374
ISBN-10: 0914671375
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2015 - 101 Detectives (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781908276568
ISBN-10: 1908276568
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

2014 - The Restless Supermarket (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781908276322
ISBN-10: 1908276320
Genres: History, Literature & Fiction, Politics & Social Sciences

2013 - Double Negative (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781908276261
ISBN-10: 1908276266
Genres: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction, Politics & Social Sciences

2012 - A Labour of Moles [Sylph Editions - Cahiers] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780956509284
ISBN-10: 0956509282
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2012 - The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories [Seagull Books - The Africa List] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780857420121
ISBN-10: 0857420127
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2010 - Tj the Various Names of Johannesburg Johannesburg 50 Years of the City (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788869652189
ISBN-10: 8869652181
Genres: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction

2009 - Home Landsland Marks Contemporary Art From South Africa (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781905620258
ISBN-10: 190562025X

2009 - Portrait with Keys the City of Johannesburg Unlocked (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780393335408
ISBN-10: 0393335402
Genres: History, Travel, Science & Math

2008 - William Kentridge Tapestries [Philadelphia Museum of Art] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780300126860
ISBN-10: 0300126867
Genres: Arts & Photography, History, Crafts, Hobbies & Home

1996 - Propaganda By Monuments and Other Stories [Africasouth new writing] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780864863157
ISBN-10: 0864863152
Genre: Literature & Fiction

1995 - Der Plan Des Baumeisters (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9783763803552
ISBN-10: 3763803556

Time Out of Time Lynx [Contemporary Southern African Writing] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780140133882
ISBN-10: 0140133887

Missing Persons [Africasouth Paperbacks] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780864861382
ISBN-10: 0864861389
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Portrait with Keys Joburg Whatwhat (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781415200209
ISBN-10: 1415200203

Death of a Son [Lifewise] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781874932154
ISBN-10: 1874932158

Johannesburg Insel Aus Zufall (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783927743991
ISBN-10: 3927743992

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