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Blood on the Page is a striking and important collection of interviews on HIV/AIDS and literature with contemporary South African and Zimbabwean writers reflecting on their own texts and lives in the Mbeki-Mugabe era. Rarely has the brutality and complexity of the question of writing in a post-Apartheid African world haunted by death and illness been confronted with as much directness and honesty. An absolutely must read for any one engaged with South Africa, Zimbabwe, HIV/AIDS and literature, or the difficulty of writing in the world of global health politics. -Sander L. Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University

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Lizzy Attree holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London, on ""The Literary Responses to HIV and AIDS from South Africa and Zimbabwe from 1990–2005"" and organises literary tours of African writers in the UK. Most recently she ran the Caine Prize 10th Anniversary Tour funded by Arts Council England. She held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Programme for the Study of the Humanities in Africa, at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa in 2008–09 and is currently a Research Associate at the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC. She lives in London, is a founding member of ReadSA and would love to organise literary tours and festivals in African countries.

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