Nominated for four Naledi Awards (South Africa's equivalent of the Olivier Awards) including Best New South African Play.
Craig Higginson Boeken
Craig Higginson is een internationaal geprezen schrijver wiens werken de diepten van de menselijke psyche en de complexiteit van interpersoonlijke relaties verkennen. Zijn toneelstukken, vaak geprezen om hun gedurfde perspectief en literaire diepgang, richten zich op thema's als identiteit, herinnering en de zoektocht naar betekenis in de hedendaagse wereld. Higginson's proza wordt gekenmerkt door scherpe introspectie en lyrische taal die lezers meesleept in een maalstroom van emoties. Met zijn werken biedt hij inzichtelijke commentaren op maatschappelijke uitdagingen en universele menselijke ervaringen, waardoor hij zich heeft gevestigd als een van de meest significante hedendaagse stemmen in de literatuur.
Winner of Naledi Award for Best New South African play (March 2011).
The Dream House
- 258bladzijden
- 10 uur lezen
The narrative unfolds in a valley where a farmhouse is replicated multiple times, each version slightly different. Amidst this eerie setting, a woman in a wheelchair sifts through memories while her husband explores the remnants of past life. Themes of longing and mortality emerge through the dreams of a young woman labeled as 'the barren one' and the introspection of an aging headmaster. The arrival of a mysterious car at the driveway adds tension, hinting at unresolved stories and connections within this haunting landscape.
Little Foot
- 96bladzijden
- 4 uur lezen
Part realism, part nightmare, acclaimed South African playwright Craig Higginson's play takes us on an unforgettable journey into our unconscious ancestral memory.
The Landscape Painter
- 274bladzijden
- 10 uur lezen
It’s winter in London, 1947. When Arthur Bailey, a solitary landscape painter, catches sight of a young woman, Felicity, who is moving into the neighbouring bed-sit, he’s stirred to recall in haunting detail events that have been kept hidden for fifty years.The Landscape Painter is a double tale of obsession, betrayed trust and irrepressible hope. As a young and brilliant artist, Arthur travelled to South Africa in the late 1890s to pursue his best friend’s sister, the beautiful and enigmatic Carwyn Hamilton. His subsequent revelations about Carwyn were to blight his life and torment him for decades afterwards.From the gold-crazed streets of early Johannesburg and the epic battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War, to the austerity of post-War Britain, The Landscape Painter is a spectacular historical novel filled with wit and insight, written in Higginson’s characteristically sinuous, lyrical prose.
