Andre Brink
A literary reading
Location: Culture Lab, Newcastle University
Time/Date: 22nd April 2010, 19:00
Novelist, essayist and memoirist, André Brink is one of South Africa’s most distinguished authors. For years his books were censored in his home country, while their success abroad helped inform the world about the injustices of apartheid. A Dry White Season (1979) was made into a film starring Marlon Brando and he has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He published A Fork in the Road last year, an evocative memoir detailing the influences which shaped both his political consciousness and development as a writer.
If I act, I cannot but lose. But if I do not act, it is a different kind of defeat, equally decisive and maybe worse. Because then I will not even have a conscience left.
(from A Dry White Season)
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Published: 12th January 2010