Author Law-Viljoen's first novel,
The Printmaker, was published in 2016 (Umuzi/Penguin Random House). It was shortlisted for the premier fiction prize in South Africa, the
Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Award, and won the 2018 English Academy of South Africa Olive Schreiner Prize. It appeared in French in 2019 (Editions Zoé). She is currently associate professor in Creative Writing at Adelaide University, South Australia.
Editor Law-Viljoen was the editor of the arts magazine
Art South Africa and editor-in-chief at David Krut Publishing in Johannesburg. the 2011 Antalis Paper Loves You Award for
Fire Walker; the 2015 Jan Rabie Rapport Prize for Non-Fiction for
Nagmusiek; the 2015 Kyknet Rapport Prize for Fiction for
Nagmusiek; the 2016 Eugene Marais Prize for
Nagmusiek; and the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award 2019 for
Everyone is Present. Through Fourthwall Books, she has been involved in the editing and publishing of a number of authors' works, including
Flute by
William Kentridge,
Light on a Hill with contributions by multiple architects, builders, and court judges that Law-Viljoen helped to compile, and
Art and Justice on the history and conception of the constitutional court in South Africa. She and Oliver Barstow opened an independent bookstore called Edition in
Milpark, Johannesburg as an extension of their publishing company. == Bibliography ==