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Bookings for the 2019 Knysna Literary Festival is open at Pam Golding Properties Gray Street Office, Knysna.

Online ticket sales available on Quicket.

Sirocco Restaurant
09h00 – 10h00
R150 pp (Booking Ref A)

General Holomisa is one of South Africa’s respected and popular political figures. This biography was written in collaboration with Eric Naki and presents an engaging and revealing account of a man who has made his mark as a game changer in South African politics.

Sirocco Restaurant
11h00 – 12h30
R200 pp (Booking Ref B)

2019’s SA is divided and caught in a web of state capture, corruption, poverty and despair. The Zuma years have left the country and its institutions battered and bruised. Can Ramaphosa pull South Africa out of the quagmire and restore it to its former glory?

Knysna Primary School
14h30 – 15h30
R50 pp (Booking Ref C)

Selfies, Sexts and Smartphones is the book every teenager (and their parents) should read. It covers all of the major issues teenagers face in the digital age.

île de päin
18h00 – 21h30
R800 pp (Booking Ref D)

Expect understated elegance and indulgent deliciousness created by our playdate, David Higgs and vineyard friends. Enjoy fine bites, delightful sips and stylish ambience together with team île de païn. We playwith friends in the kitchen. You play with friends at the table….

Please note: Tickets for this event is Sold Out

The Turbine Boutique Hotel and Spa
09h00 – 10h00
R150 pp (Booking Ref E)

How did South Africa land up teetering on the brink of a political and fiscal cliff? JJ Tabane chats with Claire Bisseker, Chris Holdsworth (Investec Investment Strategist) and Bonang Mohale on how South Africa will recover from this crisis.

Please note: Tickets for this event is Sold Out

Plus One: Vanessa Raphaely 

The Turbine Boutique Hotel and Spa
11h00 – 12h00
R150 pp (Booking Ref F)

Vanessa Raphaely, former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine chats about her thrilling debut novel, Plus One. It would be a weekend of fun, sunshine, champagne and partying. And it was all of those things. Until it wasn’t……

The Turbine Boutique Hotel and Spa
13h00 – 14h00 
R150 pp (Booking Ref G)

Scent of Fear is a gripping action thriller exploring the world of tracker dogs and their handlers in the war against poaching in Africa. Tony Park has written 15 other thrilling novels set in Africa.

Please note: Tickets for this event is Sold Out

Simola Country Club Hotel
17h30 – 21h30
R800 pp (Booking Ref H)

The extremely popular Delicious Word Journey gives you the opportunity to experience some stylish homes in Simola Golf and Country Estate. Enjoy great food accompanied by Knysna’s delicious craft gin, craft beer and fine wines, whilst chatting to well known authors.

Please note: Tickets for this event is Sold Out

Simola Country Club Hotel
10h00 – 11h00
R150 pp (Booking Ref I)

Adam Habib, the most prominent and outspoken academic leader through the recent student protests, takes a characteristically frank view of the past 3 years on South Africa’s campuses. He critically examines the student movement and individual student leaders who emerged under the banners #feesmustfall and #Rhodesmustfall, and debates how to achieve truly progressive social change in South Africa, on and off our campuses.

Simola Country Club Hotel
12h00 – 14h00
R150 pp (Booking Ref J)

The First World Champions explores the origins of the unique rivalry between the All Blacks and the Springboks: 2 countries united in their passion for rugby, but divided by their politics. A forgotten Springbok tour of New Zealand in 1937 provides the platform and characters through which Michael Charton brings this story to life. His message celebrates the value system associated with rugby’s amateur era and it serves as a nostalgic reminder of what is important in life and legacy.

Online ticket sales available on Quicket.

FESTIVAL POLICY: UNRESERVED SEATING / NO REFUNDS WILL BE ISSUED 48 HOURS PRIOR TO THE START OF THE FESTIVAL