Professor Ivan VladislaviĆ

Professor Ivan Vladislavic is a renowned novelist, essayist and editor. His career began at Ravan Press as the Social Studies and Literary Editor. After this, he embarked on a 25-year career as an independent writer and editor. In 2015, he was appointed distinguished professor in the Creative Writing Department at the University of the Witwatersrand.

His works of fiction include The Restless Supermarket (2001); The Exploded View (2004); Double Negative (2010), and The Distance (2019). His non-fiction works include Willem Boshoff (2005), a monograph on the South African conceptual artist; and Portrait with Keys (2006), a book of documentary texts on life in Johannesburg. The Near North, a book of reflections on Johannesburg now, was published in March 2024.

Over the years, he has travelled to scores of festivals and conferences abroad and given seminars at Cambridge, Yale, Columbia, and other universities.

His work has been translated into 14 languages and has won many awards, including South Africa’s Sunday Times Prize; the Alan Paton Award; the University of Johannesburg Prize; and Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.
His research outputs over the last eight years include six peer-reviewed journal articles, three books and three book chapters.