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A biennial literary festival in Namibia.
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The Doek Literary Festival is a biennial celebration of Namibian and African literature that connects Namibian readers and literary artists with their counterparts in Africa and the African diaspora. The inaugural edition of the festival was made possible with a partnership with the University of East Anglia’s International Chair of Creative Writing.

In 2022, the Doek Literary Festival’s focus was fiction in the novel and short form.

FESTIVAL WRITERS

The 2022 Doek Literary Festival brought together writers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom in Windhoek for three days of sharing knowledge about storytelling and literary production.

ZUKISWA WANNER
ZUKISWA WANNER
Zukiswa Wanner is an award-winning writer, editor, and publisher born in Zambia, raised in Zimbabwe, and currently based in Kenya. A passionate Pan-African literary activist, she considers the whole of the continent to be her home.

Her debut novel, The Madams (2006), was shortlisted for the 2007 K. Sello Duiker Award in 2007. Her third novel Men of the South (2010) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book 2011 and the Herman Charles Bosman Award. In 2014 she was named on the Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define trends in African literature. She won the K. Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award in 2015 for London Cape Town Joburg (2014). She was a Danish International Visiting Artist (DIVA) hosted by World Wide Words in 2016. In 2018 she was a fellow at the University of Johannesburg’s Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies.

Zukiswa is also the founder and curator of Artistic Encounters, a gathering of multidisciplinary artists through literature; Afrolit Sans Frontieres, a virtual literary festival; and the Goethe-Institut’s Virtually Yours, a monthly online gathering that brings together prominent African writers and readers. In 2020 she was awarded the Goethe Medal for fostering international cultural relations, making her the first African woman to win the award.
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FESTIVAL PROGRAM

Curated to provide the attending public with stimulating panel discussions and engaging creative writing workshops, the program for the 2022 Doek Literary Festival was filled with events that engaged readers, writers, and lovers of literature. All of the festival’s events were free to attend.

IMAGE GALLERY

21 APRIL 2022

Rémy Ngamije, Doek's founder and chairperson.

Doek Literary Festival: Day 1. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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22 APRIL 2022

Doek Collective's Creative Writing Workshop with Tsits Dangarembga. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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Rémy Ngamije, Doek's founder and chairperson.

Doek Literary Festival: Day 2. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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Querida.

Musical Performance By Querida. Doek Literary Festival: Day 2. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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23 APRIL 2022

Zukiswa Wanner (left) & Dalene Kooper, a member of the Doek Collective.

Creative Writing Workshop With Zukiswa Wanner. Doek Literary Festival: Day 3. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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Femi Kayode.

Creative Writing Workshop With Femi Kayode. Doek Literary Festival: Day 3. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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Rémy Ngamije.

Creative Writing Workshop With Rémy Ngamije. Doek Literary Festival: Day 3. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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Dr. Coletta Kandemiri (far left), Prof. Jean McNeil (middle left), Femi Kayode (middle right), and Denver Kisting (far left).

Doek Literary Festival: Day 3. © Doek. © Namafu Amutse.
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