Anne Lands­man grew up in Worces­ter, ​“a small South African town in the shad­ow of the Brandwacht moun­tains.” After com­plet­ing her under­grad­u­ate degree at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cape Town, Anne set­tled in New York City, where she has lived ever since. Her sec­ond nov­el, The Row­ing Les­son, was a 2009 final­ist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Literature.

Dis­patch from South Africa’s First Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Fes­ti­val, Part I

Dis­patch from South Africa’s First Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Fes­ti­val, Part II