Mark Gevisser
Mark Gevisser is one of South Africa's leading authors and journalists. His latest book, A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream is published by Palgrave Macmillan in the UK, and by Jonathan Ball in South Africa under the title, Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred.It was the winner of the Sunday Times 2008 Alan Paton Prize and was lauded by the Times Literary Supplement as "probably the finest piece of non-fiction to come out of South Africa since the end of apartheid". Mark is also a heritage curator and a political analyst. He is currently working on a new book for Atlantic Books and Farrar, Strous & Giroux. He is Writing Fellow, University of Pretoria and Carnegie Equity Fellow, University of Witwatersrand, and lives between Paris and Johannesburg. Read more...
A Legacy of Liberation
Mark’s award-winning biography of Thabo Mbeki is now
available internationally, in abridged and updated form, in a new edition
published by Palgrave Macmillan. Read
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André Brink
on "A Legacy of Liberation" in the Saturday Telegraph
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Praise for “A Legacy of Liberation”
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A Street-Guide Named Desire
Mark is finally indulging his childhood obsession with maps
Going Back to My Routes: Finding a Way to Call Johannesburg Home
Mail & Guardian, September 23-29 2011
Ma Firewalker and Mr Typewriter-Head: Maps, Marx and Kentridge
in Fire Walker: William Kentridge, Gerhard Marx, edited by Oliver Barstow and Bronwyn Law-Viljoen
Fourthwall Books, 2011
Courtesy Angus Gibson
Edenvale
In his Essay in Granta 114, Mark looks back at the lives of two older men from Soweto, and how they negotiated the double-jeopardy of being black and being gay in apartheid South Africa, from the perspective of his own same-sex marriage in February 2009.
Read Edenvale
Read Scott Sherman in The Nation on Mark's Essay
Buy the Book on Amazon.com
Buy the Book on Kalahari.net
Read an extract from Edenvale, published in the Mail &
Guardian
Read a report of Mark's presentation at the launch of Granta 114 at the Royal Africa Society in London.
Read The Guardian's review of Granta 114: Aliens.
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Recent writing
The Truth vs The State
Times LIVE, December 2011
Going Back to My Routes: Finding a Way to Call Johannesburg Home
Mail & Guardian, September 23-29 2011
Africa needs its judiciary to underpin social progress
Guardian.co.uk, August 2011
A journey into nostalgia
Sunday Times, July 2011
Granta 114: Edenvale
The South African women living in fear of rape
Guardian.co.uk, May 2011
"Figures & Fictions" - South African photography
at the V&A
Guardian.co.uk, April 2011
A Just Defiance by Peter Harris � review
Guardian.co.uk, April 2011
To be black and gay in Soweto
Guardian.co.uk, April 2011
What makes us South African? - Opinion
Mail & Guardian, October 2010
We did it, we showed the world
The Guardian, July 2010
A
joyous burden
Mail & Guardian, June 2010
South
Africa's World Cup Moment
The New York Times, June 2010
I
want to imagine the SA of my dreams
Times Live, May 2010
Young
Mandela by David James Smith
The Guardian, July 2010
Homosexuality
and the battle for Africa’s soul
Mail & Guardian, June 2010
He wore his alienation on his sleeve
Mail & Guardian, May 2010
South
African Angst
The New York Times, September 2009
Castigated
and celebrated
The Times, August 2009
A
man with two tribes
The Times, July 2009
Judging
Zuma
The Wall Street Journal, 19 April 2009
South
Africa: beyond a one-party state
The Guardian.co.uk, 20 April 2009
Jacob
Zuma, South Africa's unsavory next president
LA Times Online, 19 April 2009
How
Zuma became Mbeki
Mail & Guardian Online, 09 April 2009
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