Ivan Vladislavic

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Ivan Vladislavić
Born
Ivan Vladislavić

(1957-09-17) 17 September 1957
Pretoria, South Africa
OccupationsAuthor, editor, professor

Ivan Vladislavić (born 17 September 1957) is a South African novelist, essayist and editor.[1][2] Vladislavić's style has been described as postmodern, innovative, humorous and unpredictable.[3][4][5] He has won numerous awards including Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction.[6] He lives in Johannesburg where he is a Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand.[7]

Biography

Vladislavić was born in Pretoria in 1957.[3] His father was a mechanic of Croatian heritage and his mother was a housewife. He attended the University of the Witwatersrand and graduated in 1979.[8]

He has worked as Social Studies Editor for anti-apartheid publishing house Ravan Press and as an editor for Staffrider magazine.[9]

He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand.[10][3]

Bibliography

Novels

Collections

  • Missing Persons (1989 New Africa Books David Philip)[24]
  • Propaganda by Monuments (1996 New Africa Books David Philip;[24]
  • Flashback Hotel: Early Stories (2010 Penguin Random House;[25] 2019 Archipelago Books)[26]
  • 101 Detectives (2015 Penguin Random House; And Other Stories, 2015)[27]

Essays & Nonfiction

  • Willem Boshoff (2005 David Krut Publishing), extended essay on the work of conceptual artist Willem Boshoff
  • Portrait with Keys (2006 Umuzi, Cape Town; Portobello, London; 2009 Norton, New York).[28]
  • The Loss Library and other unfinished stories (2011 Penguin Random House Umuzi, Cape Town; 2012 Seagull Books, Calcutta). A hybrid work blending "essay, fiction and literary genealogy"[19][29]
  • The Near North (2024 Pan Macmillan Picador)[30]

As Editor

  • Ten Years of Staffrider Magazine: 1978–1988, an anthology of the best work from the magazine, compiled and edited with Andries Oliphant (Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1988)[31]
  • blank_Architecture, apartheid and after, edited with Hilton Judin (1998 Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; New Africa Books David Philip, Cape Town).[32]
  •  T’kama-Adamastor: Inventions of Africa in a South African Painting (2000 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)[33]
  • Ponte City, edited for Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse (Steidl, Göttingen, 2014)[34]
  • My Mother’s Laughter: Selected Poems of Chris van Wyk, edited with Robert Berold (2020 deep south books, Grahamstown/Makhanda) [35]

Selected interviews

  • Steyn, Jan, 'Interview with Ivan Vladislavić' The White Review, August 2012
  • De Kok, Ingrid, 'Ivan Vladislavić: The Restless Supermarket,' World Literature Today, January 2002
  • De Vries, Fred, 'Joburg’s ambiguity mirrored in Portrait,' The Weekender, 9 September 2006
  • Jooste, Pamela, 'In Conversation with Ivan Vladislavić,' LitNet, March 2005
  • Warnes, Christopher, 'Interview with Ivan Vladislavić,' Modern fiction studies, 46 (1) Spring, 2000: pp 280.
  • Interview with Ivan Vladislavić on The Ledge, an independent platform for world literature. Includes excerpt and audio.
  • Malec, Jennifer ‘The fallible memory is surely at the heart of writing fiction’—Jennifer Malec interviews Ivan Vladislavić about his novel, The Distance,' The Johannesburg Review of Books, 6 May 2019[36]
  • Katie Kitamura, BOMB Magazine, No. 135, Spring 2016, pp. 72–8[37]
  • Gaylard Gerald, At Home With Ivan Vladislavić: An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City (Routledge 2023)[38]
  • Hoby Hermione, 'The South African Parables of Ivan Vladislavić, The New Yorker, 8 August 2017[39]
  • Poyner Jane and Jewel Josh, 'An Interview with Ivan Vladislavić', Contemporary Literature, University of Wisconsin Press 20, June 2022[40]
  • Msimang Sisonke, 'Acts of Faith and Frightening Fictions: An interview with Ivan Vladislavić' Wasafiri Vol 36, Issue 3, 3 July 2021[41]

Awards and honors

References

  1. "Ivan Vladislavić". And Other Stories. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  2. MacKenzie, Craig (20 May 2011). "Vladislavic: Take two". The M&G Online. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  3. Cornwell, Gareth (2010). The Columbia guide to South African literature in English since 1945. New York : Columbia University Press. pp. 196–197. ISBN 978-0-231-50381-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  4. Kitamura, Katie. "Ivan Vladislavić". Bomb Magazine. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  5. Walder, Dennis (2000). "The Necessity of Error: Memory and Representation in the New Literatures". In Susheila, Nasta (ed.). Reading the 'New' Literatures in a Postcolonial Era. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. p. 157.
  6. "Ivan Vladislavic Wins Yale University's Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction". Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  7. "Ivan Vladislavic Book | Penguin Random House South Africa". www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  8. Hoby, Hermione (8 August 2017). "The South African Parables of Ivan Vladislavic". The New Yorker. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  9. Reid, Katie (4 May 2021). "Small and joined in print: Ivan Vladislavić, "Tsafendas's Diary," and Staffrider magazine (1988)". Social Dynamics. 47 (2): 264–287. doi:10.1080/02533952.2021.1973335. ISSN 0253-3952.
  10. "Q&A: Words on the Times with Ivan Vladislavic on "The Distance"". 2 October 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  11. "The folly". libraryconnect.iie.ac.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  12. "The Folly". www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  13. "The restless supermarket". libraryconnect.iie.ac.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  14. "The Restless Supermarket". www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  15. "The Restless Supermarket". And Other Stories. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  16. Ajibade, Mayowa (January 2021). "Johannesburg Drift: Variations of the Uncanny in Ivan Vladislavić's The Exploded View". Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. 8 (1): 80–93. doi:10.1017/pli.2020.28. ISSN 2052-2614.
  17. "The Exploded View". www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  18. "The Exploded View by Ivan Vladislavić". Archipelago Books. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  19. "Ivan Vladislavic - Books". Ivan Vladislavic. 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  20. "Double Negative". www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  21. "Double Negative". And Other Stories. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  22. "Sylph Editions | C17 A Labour of Moles". sylpheditions.com. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  23. "The Distance". Archipelago Books. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  24. Malec, Jennifer (7 April 2017). "Ivan Vladislavić". The Johannesburg Review of Books. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  25. "Flashback Hotel". www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  26. "Flashback Hotel". Archipelago Books. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  27. "101 Detectives". And Other Stories. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  28. Morris, Jan (18 November 2006). "Mean streets". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  29. "The Loss Library". Seagull Books. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  30. "The Near North by Ivan Vladislavić". www.panmacmillan.co.za. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  31. Vladislavić, Ivan; Oliphant, Andries Walter. (1988). Ten years of Staffrider, 1978-1988. Johannesburg: Ravan Press.
  32. Marks, Rafi (1 March 2000). "Blank — Architecture, apartheid and after". Urban Forum. 11 (1): 162–164. doi:10.1007/BF03036837. ISSN 1874-6330.
  33. "T'kama-Adamastor : inventions of Africa in a South African painting | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  34. "Ponte City Revisited: 54 Storeys - Mikhael Subotzky, Patrick Waterhouse". Steidl Verlag. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  35. "'Lines and images stick in the mind years after they have been heard or read'—Read Ivan Vladislavić's Introduction to My Mother's Laughter, a new collection of poems by the late Chris van Wyk". The Johannesburg Review of Books. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  36. "'The fallible memory is surely at the heart of writing fiction'—Jennifer Malec interviews Ivan Vladislavić about his latest novel, The Distance". The Johannesburg Review of Books. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  37. "BOMB Magazine | Ivan Vladislavić by Katie Kitamura". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  38. "At Home with Ivan Vladislavić: An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  39. Hoby, Hermione (8 August 2017). "The South African Parables of Ivan Vladislavic". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  40. Poyner, Jane; Jewell, Josh (2022). "An Interview with Ivan Vladislavić". Contemporary Literature. 62 (2): 141–176. doi:10.3368/cl.62.2.141. ISSN 0010-7484. Archived from the original on 26 September 2023.
  41. Msimang, Sisonke (3 July 2021). "Acts of Faith and Frightening Fictions: An Interview With Ivan Vladislavić". Wasafiri. 36 (3): 26–31. doi:10.1080/02690055.2021.1918422. ISSN 0269-0055.
  42. "Prize Citation for Ivan Vladislavić". Windham–Campbell Literature Prize. 24 February 2015. Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2015.