The Mistress's Dog is an engaging collection of twelve short stories by David Medalie, including two award winners - 'Recognition' and 'The Mistress's Dog' - and a Foreword and afterword by Michael Titlestad.
Deft, subtle and nuanced, Medalie's stories show an accomplished and mature writer at his best. Their focus is the lived experience of people: ostensibly uneventful lives into which the unexpected erupts. These stories find significance in the reversals, ironies and coincidences of existence. They bring the characters - and the reader - to the brink of recognition.
The Mistress's Dog was short-listed in 2011 for the University of Johannesburg Literary Award and was awarded the Thomas Pringle Award by the English Academy of Southern Africa in 2008. It was also short-listed in 2011 for the Caine Prize for African Writing and was selected as one of the best twenty short stories of the post-apartheid period and was published in 2014, along with the other nineteen stories, in a collection entitled Twenty in 20.
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Pan Macmillan South Africa
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978-1-77010-212-5 (9781770102125)
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David Medalie is an award winning short story writer, novelist and anthologist and has many years' experience of teaching Creative Writing. His publications include two collections of short stories, The Shooting of the Christmas Cows (1990) (David Philip), The Mistress's Dog (2010) and a novel, The Shadow Follows (2006). He edited two anthologies of South African short stories, Encounters (1998) and Recognition (2017), both published by Wits University Press.
Medalie's writing has won or been short-listed for a number of literary awards. The Shooting of the Christmas Cows was awarded the Ernst van Heerden Creative Writing Award prior to its publication in 1990. The collection was also short-listed for the CNA Debut Award in 1991. A short story entitled Recognition was the winner of the Sanlam Short Story Award (in the unpublished category) in 1996. The Shadow Follows was short-listed in 2007 for the Commonwealth Literary Award in the category of Best First Book (Africa region), and the M-Net Literary Award.
