Instant Kalmer

Reader, Writer, Teacher
Adelaide Tambo Award for Human Rights in The arts (2014)
Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize 2018

[Instant Kalmer @harrykalmer]

Happy to be included amongst "10 of the most compelling local books of the year" https://t.co/5cdo24IuyD via @SundayTimesZA

[Instant Kalmer @harrykalmer]

Beautiful display. So happy about it. Thanks #homebru Dankie. #afrikaans

[Penguin Random House South Africa @PenguinBooksSA]

“Jy’s nie die eerste wit man wat hierheen kom om homself te verdrink nie.”

Lees 'n uittreksel uit In ’n land sonder voëls, die bekroonde skrywer @harrykalmer se aangrypende en hartverskeurende distopiese roman hier: https://t.co/6KGr4UsFCu

[Penguin Random House South Africa @PenguinBooksSA]

WEN boeke en 'n bietjie whisky!

Twee gelukkige lesers sal elk ‘n kopie van In ʼn land sonder voëls deur @harrykalmer en Die man van Quatro deur Calvyn van Niekerk wen, PLUS ʼn bottel Balvenie 14 Jaar Enkel Malt Whisky ter waarde van R1050.

Inskrywings: https://t.co/w5MQM6bDOT

[Penguin Random House South Africa @PenguinBooksSA]

WEN boeke en 'n bietjie whisky!

One gee twee geskenkpakke weg, elk met ‘n kopie van In ʼn land sonder voëls deur @harrykalmer en Die man van Quatro, PLUS ʼn bottel Balvenie 14 Jaar Enkel Malt Whisky ter waarde van R1050!

Skryf hier in voor 30 Junie: https://t.co/w5MQM6tfdt

[Penguin Random House South Africa @PenguinBooksSA]

In ’n land sonder voëls, die aangrypende distopiese roman deur die bekroonde skrywer @harrykalmer is ’n verdoemende ondersoek na die impak van ’n totalitêre bestel en een man se besinning oor sterflikheid en dít wat ons mense maak.

Nou beskikbaar: https://t.co/RXXS2OP3hn

[Andy Adams @FlakPhoto]

Woke up thinking about this image today - One of my favorite pictures: George Tice / Car for Sale, Cliff Street, April 1969. #flakphotorides

[C.P. Cavafy @CCavafy]

“I am from Constantinople by descent, but I was born in Alexandria – at a house on Cherif Pacha Street.”

– C.P. Cavafy.

[A view of Cherif Pacha Street, Alexandria. Photo by Max Karkégi collection, 1909]

[Perfect Hlongwane @_wordperfect]

Anyway, even if it does, the art of listening & understanding requires you to manage even that sensation, methinks. In the moment. There really are very few things in life as useless as applause, if you ask me. We should limit it to the affirming of children. Innit

[Perfect Hlongwane @_wordperfect]

Does hearing something (that strikes you as a truth not often enough expressed) give you a surge of energy? Make you giddy, almost? No?

[Oxfam Hay Festival Bookshop @oxfamhayfest]

Sunday morning and serious browsing in the @Oxfam_at_Hay festival bookshop. We want to say a big thank you to all our customers and to #HayFestival2019. Yesterday we hoped to raise enough to provide 600 families with safe water, in fact we did so well we'll be able to help 1,000.

[Instant Kalmer @harrykalmer]

Transtromer of course.

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https://t.co/dXswAsjMq8
Sunday Poem Transtormer

[Instant Kalmer @harrykalmer]

Love this. Happy Sunday. I love gelpens.

[Claudia Dose @claudiadose]

Spend a wonderful creative painting afternoon with my favorite art pals from the Culver City Art Club. #painting #stilllife #gelpens #drawing love the #glitter and the strong #colors

[AJ Opperman @AJOpperman]

Nuwe uitgewer se eerste boek - stories oor familie, minnaars, ouerskap en buiterstanderskap https://t.co/h7dFcaM5SJ @Netwerk24 @reneywarrington @Volkspeler @LAPAUitgewers

[Instant Kalmer @harrykalmer]

https://t.co/UCT6pABmnr
I suspect we may have lost a genius. Title envy about this title and How to write about Africa @GrantaMag
#africanliterature
#amreading

[The JRB @JoburgReview]

‘I put my heart out there, not anything else, not my ego, I put my heart out there ... I think that that is the way I like to live, and that is the kind of writer I want to be.’

Rest in power, Binyavanga Wainaina.

https://t.co/kglO2rkp4Q

Images: @victordlamini

[Instant Kalmer @harrykalmer]

News from the hood.

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BBC News - Sinéad Morrissey recites The Millihelen on The Arts Show https://t.co/D1zuk8Nca8

[Instant Kalmer @harrykalmer]

EMBRACING MY INNER TROLLOPE
Sceptical of stories of Anthony Trollope finishing one book before lunch and starting the next one same afternoon. But after submitting 3rd ms.of the year (Nights in white Yeoville) to publisher last night I am starting my Marius Schoon bio today.

[Instant Kalmer @harrykalmer]

DEREK JARMAN
FILM MAKER, AUTHOR, GARDENER