Podcast appearances and mentions of margie orford

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this event, Lesedi Molefi, Margie Orford and Hedley Twidle speak to Festival Director, Mervyn Sloman, about crafting their work.This event was made possible by the support of the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture, the City of Cape Town and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this discussion, Barbara Boswell, Margie Orford and Buntu Siwisa chat to Andrew Brown about their latest books. This event was made possible by the support of the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture, the City of Cape Town and the Heinrich Böll Foundation

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024. In this discussion, Siphokazi Jonas, Lesedi Molefi and Margie Orford speak to Buhle Ngaba about writing mental health.This event was made possible by the support of the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture, the City of Cape Town and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Pippa speaks to writer Margie Orford about her latest book, Love and Fury, which is her memoir, a story of how she became the writer she is today, the demons she has faced along the way, and the sacrifices she has made in the service of her craft.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks for listening to this episode of Pagecast, brought to you by Jonathan Ball Publishers.  Today's podcast features the phenomenal Margie Orford, speaking about her latest book - Love and Fury, a compelling and intimate account of the life, loves and furies. In this brave memoir, the renowned South African crime writer divulges some of the harrowing experiences that have shaped her life and influenced her writing. Through sexual assault, divorce, depression and personal loss, Orford illuminates the trauma she has navigated. Tender and courageous chapters vividly recall memories of what she has been through as a woman, mother, wife, feminist and ambitious writer. Love and Fury shows why trauma in our past can have such an enduring and debilitating effect on women's lives. It also unpacks the healing power of love, creativity, courage and self-reflection, ultimately offering a profound message of hope and joy for any woman who has ever questioned themselves, their trauma and who they are in the world. This book is every woman's love and fury. In this episode, Margie is in conversation with Barbara Boswell, feminist literary scholar and Associate Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. I promise its a chat you will never forget. Enjoy!

Novelist and film director, Margie Orford on what to expect from her long-anticipated memoir, ‘Love and Fury', the book is said to be about the compelling and intimate account of the life, In this brave memoir, the renowned South African crime writer divulges some of the harrowing experiences that have shaped her life and influenced her writing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oscar Pistorius, the former South African Paralympic and Olympic athlete, was released from prison on Friday. Journalists Tim Rohan and Margie Orford report. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

In our final episode for the season, Lebohang Masango about the choices we make at the intersection of love and money, and Joy Watson tells me about her favourite anti-heroines. The soft life can be a life of luxury, of champagne and overseas travel, or it could mean money being less of a perpetual worry. The book is about women who pursue this and see their dating lives as part of the pursuit. Lebohang is interested not just in the phenomenon of the pursuit of the soft life, but also in how it's perceived - how black women are vilified for making choices that people make the world over.  Joy's own book is ‘The Other Me', and she recommends ‘The Blessed Girl' by Angela Makholwa, ‘The Vanishing Half' by Brit Bennett. Vasti recommends ‘The Eye of the Beholder' by Margie Orford and ‘An Unusual Grief by Yewande Omotoso. Vasti interviewed Yewande in Season 3 - listen here.  This season of A Readers' Community was made possible by a grant from the National Arts Council.

Welcome to day 8 of Pagecast's Year in Review. It's Pagecast's holiday season. This December, we're looking back and reflecting on all the incredible books published in 2022. We've asked a few special guests to review their top pick of the year; and to give us a taste of what they'll be reading this holiday and in the new year. In this episode, Phyllis Green, Books Editor at SARIE magazine, takes us on a ride of her year in books. She chats about the ones that she enjoyed most and those she recommends as holiday reads! Phyllis's stand-out book for 2022 is The Eye of the Beholder by Margie Orford, and she plans to read a few books over the festive season, including: -Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries: ...And Other Amazing Cosmic Facts by Jillian Scudder - ANC Billionaires by Pieter Du Toit - No Country for Girls by Emma Styles - Little Nothings by Julie Mayhew Enjoy this episode!

Welcome to day 8 of Pagecast's Year in Review. It's Pagecast's holiday season. This December, we're looking back and reflecting on all the incredible books published in 2022. We've asked a few special guests to review their top pick of the year; and to give us a taste of what they'll be reading this holiday and in the new year. In this episode, Phyllis Green, Books Editor at SARIE magazine, takes us on a ride of her year in books. She chats about the ones that she enjoyed most and those she recommends as holiday reads! Phyllis's stand-out book for 2022 is The Eye of the Beholder by Margie Orford, and she plans to read a few books over the festive season, including: -Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries: ...And Other Amazing Cosmic Facts by Jillian Scudder - ANC Billionaires by Pieter Du Toit - No Country for Girls by Emma Styles - Little Nothings by Julie Mayhew Enjoy this episode!

Welcome to day 4 of Pagecast's Year in Review. It's Pagecast's holiday season. This December, we're looking back and reflecting on all the incredible books published in 2022. We've asked a few special guests to review their top pick of the year; and to give us a taste of what they'll be reading this holiday and in the new year. In this episode, author, journalist, and radio host, Sue Grant-Marshall takes us on a ride of her year in books. She chats about the ones that she enjoyed most and those she recommends as holiday reads! Sue's stand-out book for 2022 is Eye of the Beholder by Margie Orford and she plans to read three books over the festive season, including: -Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver -Bonny and Read by Julie Walker -The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell Enjoy this episode!

Welcome to day 4 of Pagecast's Year in Review. It's Pagecast's holiday season. This December, we're looking back and reflecting on all the incredible books published in 2022. We've asked a few special guests to review their top pick of the year; and to give us a taste of what they'll be reading this holiday and in the new year. In this episode, author, journalist, and radio host, Sue Grant-Marshall takes us on a ride of her year in books. She chats about the ones that she enjoyed most and those she recommends as holiday reads! Sue's stand-out book for 2022 is Eye of the Beholder by Margie Orford and she plans to read three books over the festive season, including: -Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver -Bonny and Read by Julie Walker -The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell Enjoy this episode!

Angela Makholwa interviews Margie Orford and Marcie Rendon about their latest novels The Eye of the Beholder and Sinister Graves, respectively. They reflect on what first attracted them to the crime fiction genre. They grapple with violence against women, ongoing trauma, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, police brutality and which bodies matter. They also celebrate the Little Earth Protectors and the significance of The PEN International Women's Manifesto. Angela Makholwa is the author of five novels, including Red Ink (Pan Macmillan, 2007). Margie Orford is the former president of PEN South Africa and currently lives in London. She is the author of the Clare Hart novels. The Eye of the Beholder (Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2022) is her latest book. Marcie Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation. She lives in Minneapolis and her crime novels Sinister Graves, Girl Gone Missing and Murder on the Red River are available through Soho Crime. In this episode we stand in solidarity with José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, a renowned journalist detained in Guatemala. You can read more about his case here: https://pen-international.org/campaigns/day-of-the-imprisoned-writer-2022 This podcast series is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa.

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2022. In this discussion Gertrude Fester, Pumla Dineo Gqola and Margie Orford speak to Ashanti Kunene about the importance of creativity as a driver for change and a tool of resilience. This event was made possible by the support of the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture, the City of Cape Town and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2022. In this discussion Pulane Mpondo, Yewande Omotoso and Margie Orford unpick mother-daughter relationships in the company of Joy Watson. This event was made possible by the support of the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture, the City of Cape Town and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

David Attwell is in conversation with Margie Orford, author of The Eye Of The Beholder. About the book: An extremely sharp, well-written female revenge thriller that looks at trauma and the complicated ways in which it manifests. WHEN DANGER LIES IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU REJECT ITS PULL? Cora carries secrets her daughter can't know. Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid. Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground. One act of violence sets three women on a collision course, each desperate to find the truth – but the people they love are not what they seem. About Margie: Margie Orford is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her Clare Hart novels have been widely translated and led to her being described as the ‘queen of South African crime-thriller writers' (The Weekender). She has written a number of children's books and several works of nonfiction, and is also an award-winning journalist who writes regularly for newspapers in the UK and in South Africa. Orford is a member of the executive board of PEN International and president emerita of PEN South Africa. She lives in London. About David: David Attwell joined the University of York in January 2006 as a Professor of Modern Literature. He served as Head of the English and Related Literature Department from 2007/8 to 2011/12, and from 2012/13 to 2016/17. He took his BA and BA (Honours) degrees at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa and completed an MA by research on African literary theory and criticism at the University of Cape Town where his supervisor was J.M. Coetzee. He completed his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin where he worked with the distinguished Africanist Bernth Lindfors. David Attwell's publications include two monographs on J.M. Coetzee, the more recent being J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing (2015) which was a Finalist for the Alan Paton Prize, South Africa's premier award for nonfiction. Rewriting Modernity (2005/6) is his collection of studies of African writers in southern Africa from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. With Derek Attridge he co-edited The Cambridge History of South African Literature (2012).

David Attwell is in conversation with Margie Orford, author of The Eye Of The Beholder. About the book: An extremely sharp, well-written female revenge thriller that looks at trauma and the complicated ways in which it manifests. WHEN DANGER LIES IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU REJECT ITS PULL? Cora carries secrets her daughter can't know. Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid. Angel will only bury the past if it means putting her abusers into the ground. One act of violence sets three women on a collision course, each desperate to find the truth – but the people they love are not what they seem. About Margie: Margie Orford is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her Clare Hart novels have been widely translated and led to her being described as the ‘queen of South African crime-thriller writers' (The Weekender). She has written a number of children's books and several works of nonfiction, and is also an award-winning journalist who writes regularly for newspapers in the UK and in South Africa. Orford is a member of the executive board of PEN International and president emerita of PEN South Africa. She lives in London. About David: David Attwell joined the University of York in January 2006 as a Professor of Modern Literature. He served as Head of the English and Related Literature Department from 2007/8 to 2011/12, and from 2012/13 to 2016/17. He took his BA and BA (Honours) degrees at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa and completed an MA by research on African literary theory and criticism at the University of Cape Town where his supervisor was J.M. Coetzee. He completed his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin where he worked with the distinguished Africanist Bernth Lindfors. David Attwell's publications include two monographs on J.M. Coetzee, the more recent being J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing (2015) which was a Finalist for the Alan Paton Prize, South Africa's premier award for nonfiction. Rewriting Modernity (2005/6) is his collection of studies of African writers in southern Africa from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. With Derek Attridge he co-edited The Cambridge History of South African Literature (2012).

In this edition of Book Choice sponsored by Exclusive Books and hosted by Paige Nick there are great reviews and interviews: The Rose Code by Kate Quinn; an interview with Françoise Malby-Anthony on her latest book, The Elephants of Thula Thula; Isabel Allende's novel Violeta; My Land, My Obsession, a memoir by Bulelwa Mabasa; an interview with Margie Orford, about her latest thriller The Eye of the Beholder and a review and interview on Notes on Falling, by Bronwen Law-Viljoen.

In this edition of Book Choice sponsored by Exclusive Books and hosted by Paige Nick there are great reviews and interviews: The Rose Code by Kate Quinn; an interview with Françoise Malby-Anthony on her latest book, The Elephants of Thula Thula; Isabel Allende's novel Violeta; My Land, My Obsession, a memoir by Bulelwa Mabasa; an interview with Margie Orford, about her latest thriller The Eye of the Beholder and a review and interview on Notes on Falling, by Bronwen Law-Viljoen.

This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2022. In this discussion Andrew Brown, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu and Margie Orford speak to John Maytham about power and justice in their novels. This event was made possible by the support of the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture, the City of Cape Town and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Guest: Acclaimed author Dr Margie Orford joins John in studio after a visit to Cape Town for The Open Book Festival where she collaborated with Andrew Brown to discuss ‘power and justice'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

South African writer Margie Orford is an award-winning journalist, film director and author. She is an honorary fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, and the president emerita of Pen South Africa. She talks to Georgina Godwin about her new book, ‘The Eye of the Beholder', a dramatic story of lies, trust and love. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

South African writer Margie Orford is an award-winning journalist, film director and author. She is an honorary fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, and the president emerita of Pen South Africa. She talks to Georgina Godwin about her new book, ‘The Eye of the Beholder', a dramatic story of lies, trust and love.

Robert Macfarlane joins us to discuss our "peculiar times", the memory of ice, and the world beneath out feet; Margie Orford brings our attention to South Africa at a crucial moment in its history, twenty-five years since the first democratic election and as another makes its mark; Nicola Shulman offers a new theory about race in Disney's original Dumbo, from 1941Underland: A deep time journey by Robert MacfarlaneThe Café de Move-on Blues: In search of the new South Africa by Christopher Hope See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode we are visited by South African author Margie Orford, for a talk about amongst other things how you in literature can tell the truth better than with journalism. And we are also visited by Joseph Knox, who has gone from book buying to book writing, and getting acclaimed by authors like Lee Child and Val McDermid. In his debut Sirens he takes us to a dark part of Manchester… You hear the authors in conversation with Anette Garpestad.

I denne episoden av Bokprat: Krimfestivalen LIVE hører dere et opptak fra arrangementet Kryssforhør - Internasjonale stjerner. John Hart, Peter Swanson og Margie Orford i samtale med programleder Asbjørn Slettemark.

Go to any networking event and you’ll probably overhear someone talking about how they discovered their ‘true purpose’. But doggedly pursuing the work you love can get in the way of the rest of your life, and lead to some tough choices. For writer Margie Orford it meant spending a year away from her three children when she had the opportunity to study overseas. It was a hard decision, as the overwhelming satisfaction of knowing that she had found her vocation was balanced by the sadness of what felt like losing a year of her children’s lives. Is a strong sense of vocation a mixed blessing, and what are the tough choices you might have make to make to follow your ambition?

Crime novelist, film director, children's author and award-winning journalist, Margie Orford was born in London and grew up in Namibia and South Africa. She has studied under J M. Coetzee, and worked in publishing with the African Publishers Network. In 1999 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and while in New York she worked on a groundbreaking archival retrieval project, WOMEN WRITING AFRICA: The Southern Volume.  She lives in Cape Town, where we met to discuss another of her many projects: Fifteen Men, a collection of writing by South African prisoners, all of whom are serving very long sentences, with whom Margie spent a year leading a creative writing course. This book is the result. We talk about her experience.