Amazwi South African Museum Of Literature is the new name of the National English Literary Museum. The museum now has a mandate to collect literary artefacts from all the linguistic communities of South Africa.
South Africa’s corpus of literature is a national asset; it spans centuries and its excellence is expressed in a diversity of voices and forms. It is Amazwi’s privilege to be the custodian of this heritage.
The exhibition tells the story of South Africa through the lens of the country’s literature, from the earliest writing of the colonial period through to some of the most recent wor…
The Nobel laureate JM Coetzee is a major figure in world literature. He is also the most translated, and most written about, of all writers in South Africa’s literary history.
The exhibition was produced to celebrate the centenary of the birth in 2019 of this prolific writer, teacher and journalist.
Jabavu grew up in the family home in Middledrift and on the Fort Hare University campus in Alice.
The subject of the exhibition, Tatamkhulu Afrika, was a celebrated poet and novelist during the 1990s. He was a person of multiple identities who lived a complex…
‘Humanature’ explores the ways in which South African literature expresses the complex relationship between humanity and nature
The exhibitions at Schreiner House explore the life and work of Olive Schreiner – the renowned author of The Story of an African Farm.
The Eastern Star gets its name from a newspaper that was established in Grahamstown in 1871.
AMAZWI offers state-of-the-art facilities which include the Library Archives, the JM Coetzee Reading Room, the Ampitheatre and the Auditorium.
Amazwi’s exhibitions, publications, educational activities and special events aim to promote awareness
and enjoyment of South Africa’s rich and diverse literary heritage.
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Help us conserve and promote the literatures of all of South Africa’s
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