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Mark Gevisser Mark Gevisser is one of South Africa's leading authors and journalists. His next book, "Dispatcher", is about memory, identity and his intense personal relationship with his home-town, Johannesburg. It will be published by Farrar Straus Giroux (US), Granta (UK) and Jonathan Ball (South Africa) in 2013. Read this essay to get an idea of what the book's about: Going back to my routes Mark has been awarded an Open Society Fellowship for 2012/13, working on "The Sexuality Frontier" Mark's last book, A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream was 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 more... André Brink on "A Legacy of Liberation" in the Saturday Telegraph Advance Praise for “A Legacy of Liberation” Praise for the South African edition Buy the book |
Latest News © James Oatway/Panos Pictures for the Open Society Foundations Mark has been appointed an Open Society Fellow for 2012-2013. He is writing a book called "The Sexuality Frontier", which looks at the new global struggle for the rights of sexual minorities and the conflicts arising out of it. Read more about Mark's fellowship and new research project: Open Society Fellowship program announces seven new fellows  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 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 & Read The Guardian's review of Granta 114: Aliens. |
Recent writing South Africa's 'Marikana Moment' The Nation, September 19 2012 Towards a progressive culture Mail & Guardian, March 16 2012 South Africa leads United Nations on gay rights Mail & Guardian, March 9 2012 The Truth vs The State Sunday Times Review, December 4 2011 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 More articles... |
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