Elleke Boehmer

Elleke Boehmer is the author of Screens again the Sky, Bloodlines (shortlisted SANLAM prize), and Nile Baby (2008), and also the short-story collection Sharmilla and Other Portraits (2010); Her edition of Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys was a 2004 summer bestseller. Her acclaimed biography of Nelson Mandela (2008) has been translated, so far, into several languages, including Arabic, Malaysian and Thai; She has published several other books including Stories of Women (2005) and the anthology Empire Writing (1998). She is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford and a judge of the Man Booker International Prize 2015...