aridag5Apr 4, 20212 minKurt (a writer): "The most authentic character"Prof Nigel Thomas (Laval University) kindly provided a most engaging reader’s response re my post-apartheid novel The Afrikaner: “Hello...
aridag5Apr 3, 20212 minThe Audiobook of the Afrikaner: An excerptI am very pleased to present an excerpt from the audiobook of my novel The Afrikaner, which chronicles a young #Afrikaner woman's...
aridag5Apr 3, 20211 minZoe's Story is now in German too!The German translation of The Afrikaner is finally out with the title Die Afrikaanerin. German-speaking readers will now be able to...
aridag5Mar 30, 20211 minJourneys into the Page“Journeys into the page: How (imaginary) travelling & movement can inspire and nurture your writing”: It's the title of the workshop...
aridag5Feb 9, 20211 minThe Afrikaner on the Maria Liberati Show!Author Arianna Dagnino joins Maria Liberati's podcast to discuss what food means to her and what her new novel “The Afrikaner” is about....
aridag5Jan 17, 20211 minWHY WE NEED ESCAPIST NOVELS IN THE TIME OF COVID“Since the beginning of the first lockdown I have been finding it difficult to fully immerse myself in a novel. Partly because of my...
aridag5Nov 14, 20201 minFollow "The Afrikaner" as it goes global!Download here Arianna Dagnino's November newsletter, with the latest updates about Zoe's story, The Afrikaner, as the film script,...
aridag5Nov 13, 20201 minThe pitch deck of "Zoe the Afrikaner"You can download here the pitch deck of the screenplay "Zoe the Afrikaner" based on Arianna Dagnino's novel The Afrikaner: "Heart of...
aridag5Oct 26, 20201 minArianna Dagnino in Vancouver & on LinktreeAll the links to Arianna Dagnino's work as a writer, translator, teacher and speaker are gathered here: https://linktr.ee/ariannadagnino
aridag5Oct 26, 20201 minThe Book Trailer of the Afrikaner now on Vimeo!Check it out! Best gift for a virtual tour in the African wilderness while still in Covid lockdown. See the book trailer of the Afrikaner...
aridag5Oct 22, 20202 minWhen reading a novel, ignorance is not necessarily a bad state of beingI thank translator Giulia De Gasperi for providing her review of my novel The Afrikaner (Guernica Editions, Toronto, 2019). You can read...
aridag5Jul 27, 20203 minCreative writing and the art of self-translationA growing number of bilingual writers are now self-translating their work, from or into English. Why is this happening? What does the...
aridag5Jul 15, 20201 min"The Afrikaner" shortlisted "Best Fiction 2020" by Miramichi ReaderArianna Dagnino's THE AFRIKANER shortlisted for 'BEST BOOK' by Miramichi Reader. “Best Fiction” is the most popular category at The...
aridag5Jun 19, 20201 minVideo Presentation of the Afrikaner by the AuthorWhere does Zoe's story stem from? Find the answer in this 5-minute video, together with a short reading from Chapter 1.
aridag5Jun 11, 20201 minInside the emotion of fictionSoon I realized how much the old San Bushman shaman could “tell me” with his simple gestures and facial expressions. In this passage...
aridag5Jun 1, 20203 minBILINGUAL WRITERS, (SELF-)TRANSLATION AND THE STYLISTIC REVOLUTIONBilingualism and self-translation may be used to question or redefine one’s cultural identity and to dislocate and decentralize...
aridag5May 30, 20201 minFinding oneself on the wrong side of historyAlan Twigg's review of my novel The Afrikaner in the spring issue of "BC Booklook" goes to the core of the predicament faced by the...
aridag5May 19, 20201 minAre we writers or marketers?In this era of market-oriented mechanisms and vanishing privileges, are writers still allowed to dedicate themselves to simply write...
aridag5May 9, 20201 minZoe’s Story, “The Afrikaner,” Goes InternationalA woman scientist ventures into a scorching desert to search for fossils and confront the dark shadows of her Afrikaner heritage. Set...
aridag5Apr 24, 20201 minAudiobook of “The Afrikaner” (Chapter 1)Listen to an audio excerpt from Arianna Dagnino’s novel “The Afrikaner” read by the Los Angeles-based, South African actor Dennis...