Ivan Vladislavic

He lives in Johannesburg where he is a Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand.

• Name — Ivan Vladislavić • Birth Name — Ivan Vladislavić • Born — 17 September 1957 • Birthplace — Pretoria, South Africa • Occupation — Author, editor, professor

Vladislavić was born in Pretoria in 1957. His father was a mechanic of Croatian heritage and his mother was a housewife. He attended the University of the Witwatersrand and graduated in 1979. He has worked as Social Studies Editor for anti-apartheid publishing house Ravan Press and as an editor for Staffrider magazine. He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand.

• The Folly (1993 New Africa Books David Philip; 2014 Penguin Random House (Umuzi); 2015 Archipelago Books: 2015 And Other Stories) • The Restless Supermarket (2001 New Africa Books David Philip; 2012 Penguin Random House (Umuzi); 2014 And Other Stories) • The Exploded View (2004 Random House; 2017 Penguin Random House (Umuzi); 2017 Archipelago Books) • TJ/Double Negative (2010) with photographer David Goldblatt (Umuzi, Cape Town, 2010; Contrasto, Rome, 2010) • Double Negative (2011 Penguin Random House (Umuzi); 2013 And Other Stories) • A Labour of Moles (2012 Sylph Editions) An illustrated novella designed by Sunandini Banerjee • The Distance (2019 Penguin Random House (Umuzi); 2020 Archipelago Books)

• Willem Boshoff (2005 David Krut Publishing), extended essay on the work of conceptual artist Willem Boshoff • Portrait with Keys (2006 Umuzi, Cape Town; Portobello, London; 2009 Norton, New York). • The Loss Library and other unfinished stories (2011 Penguin Random House Umuzi, Cape Town; 2012 Seagull Books, Calcutta). A hybrid work blending "essay, fiction and literary genealogy" • The Near North (2024 Pan Macmillan Picador)

• Ten Years of Staffrider Magazine: 1978–1988, an anthology of the best work from the magazine, compiled and edited with Andries Oliphant (Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1988) • blank_Architecture, apartheid and after, edited with Hilton Judin (1998 Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; New Africa Books David Philip, Cape Town). • T’kama-Adamastor: Inventions of Africa in a South African Painting (2000 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) • Ponte City, edited for Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse (Steidl, Göttingen, 2014) • My Mother’s Laughter: Selected Poems of Chris van Wyk, edited with Robert Berold (2020 deep south books, Grahamstown/Makhanda)

• Steyn, Jan, 'Interview with Ivan Vladislavić' The White Review, August 2012 • De Kok, Ingrid, 'Ivan Vladislavić: The Restless Supermarket,' World Literature Today, January 2002 • De Vries, Fred, 'Joburg’s ambiguity mirrored in Portrait,' The Weekender, 9 September 2006 • Jooste, Pamela, 'In Conversation with Ivan Vladislavić,' LitNet, March 2005 • Warnes, Christopher, 'Interview with Ivan Vladislavić,' Modern fiction studies, 46 (1) Spring, 2000: pp 280. • Interview with Ivan Vladislavić on The Ledge, an independent platform for world literature. Includes excerpt and audio. • Malec, Jennifer ‘The fallible memory is surely at the heart of writing fiction’—Jennifer Malec interviews Ivan Vladislavić about his novel, The Distance,' The Johannesburg Review of Books, 6 May 2019 • Katie Kitamura, BOMB Magazine, No. 135, Spring 2016, pp. 72–8 • Gaylard Gerald, At Home With Ivan Vladislavić: An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City (Routledge 2023) • Hoby Hermione, 'The South African Parables of Ivan Vladislavić, The New Yorker, 8 August 2017 • Poyner Jane and Jewel Josh, 'An Interview with Ivan Vladislavić', Contemporary Literature, University of Wisconsin Press 20, June 2022 • Msimang Sisonke, 'Acts of Faith and Frightening Fictions: An interview with Ivan Vladislavić' Wasafiri Vol 36, Issue 3, 3 July 2021

Ivan Vladislavic is recorded as having received Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes and The Sunday Times Fiction Prize.