We spent a morning with the award-winning author at her historic home in Observatory, Cape Town, to chat about the writing process, characters, and themes shaping her latest collection of poetic essays, The Crying Bride and Other Hallucinations.
Written by Fourie Botha
In this first episode of a series of interviews with writers, novelist and poet Dominique Botha talks about her project The Crying Bride & Other Hallucinations (Painted Dog Press, 2026).
Author of the prize-winning False River and Bloodwood, Botha reflects on her particular use of autobiography in fiction, her Free State roots, writing in more than one language, the brilliance of Breyten Breytenbach, and that which moves her to write.
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