Difficult choices about dignity, care, what it means

Liesl Van Der Schyff

Below Luck level Barbara Erasmus Catalyst Press I HAD the privilege of meeting Barbara Erasmus back in the early 2000s when I was involved in staging book festivals focusing on SA women authors. It was a time when many locals did not read our authors. The perception being that they were all writing about politics and apartheid. So many good books were missed as a result of this perception. Thankfully that is past. Barbara’s early books, Kaleidoscope and Even with Insects had little to do with politics and much to do with life; believable characters, behaviour, families, relationships and mental health. Light reads, laced with dry humour, Erasmus writes with a light hand on issues that often remain unspoken. Always with empathy but haunting – which possibly explains why, after…

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Star South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2025-03-20

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