TWENTY In 20, 2014

By Makhosazana Xaba with many more…

The Twenty in 20 project was launched in May 2014 to identify the best South African short fiction published in English during the first two decades of the country’s democracy. After receiving over two hundred submissions from the public, the four Twenty in 20 judges deliberated over which the new South Africa’s greatest short literary works. The results are presented here: twenty stories that will provide pleasure for generations to come and serve as a longstanding reference for South African literary posterity. From Chris van Wyk’s 1995 miniature masterpiece, “Relatives” to Makhosazana Xaba’s extraordinary 2013 tale of betrayal, “Running”.

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