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Literary Recognition
Johan Vlok Louw’s most recent novel, Sons of Mud, was shortlisted for Book of the Year 2024 at the South African Literary Awards (SALA) by wRite Associates and was longlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Award — marking the third time Louw has been recognised by this prize, following A Gap in the Hedge (2017) and Eric the Brave (2012). Karoo Dusk (2014) was shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative English Literature and later translated into Afrikaans. He is currently working on his sixth novel.
A Gap in the Hedge is a gripping literary mystery about memory, redemption, and the dark corners of the human heart.
"It makes the reader think while being seduced by words." – Jennifer Crocker, IOL
"Sons of Mud is deeply poetic and original, and a powerful anti-war manifesto." – Penguin Random House
1st edition published by Random House
2nd edition eBooks coming soon...
"Louw skep op boeiende wyse n moderne western waarin geweerskote klap." – Alexander Strachan, skrywer van 'Die Jakkals Jagter', 2014
"These are characters unafraid of death, and an uthor prepared to make them bleed."
- Toast Coetzer, The Buckfever Underground, 2014
"Eric the Brave is an elegy on boot level that marks the arrival of a remarkable new writer"
– Penguin Random House, 2012