Ivan Vladislavic
Author · 11 books
Ivan Vladislavić is a novelist, essayist and editor. He lives in Johannesburg where he is a Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand. His books include The Folly, The Restless Supermarket, Portrait with Keys and Double Negative. Among his recent publications are Flashback Hotel, a compendium of early stories; The Loss Library, a reflection on writing; and 101 Detectives, a collection of new short stories. He has edited volumes on architecture and art. His work has won several prizes, including the University of Johannesburg Prize, the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. In 2015, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction by Yale University.
Books
The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories
2011
101 Detectives
2015
A Labour of Moles
2011
Portrait with Keys
The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
2006
Double Negative
2010
The Restless Supermarket
2001
The Distance
2019
The Exploded View
2004
Gods and Soldiers
The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing
2009
The Folly
1993
Flashback Hotel
2010
