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• A New Look in Writing

  "History has brought together in South Africa two languages so closley related that if one were to try to express their relationship in familiar terms, one could possibly say they are first cousins. Although this relationship right through the nineteenth century and deep into the present was marred by keen and sometimes even bitter rivalry, conditions are now such that in the literary field at least Afrikaans and English not only are a source of mutual inspiration, but to a large degree also complement each other... "
• An astonishing first novel

  "Patricia Finney was 17 when she wrote A Shadow of Gulls."
• On the edge of the Empire

  "Mr. Coetzee whose third novel this is, is an Afrikaner, though the book was obviously written in English."
• A harsh voice crying in the wilderness

  "His narratives are tight, hard, adventure stories, dramatically alive, told in a quick urgent voice."
• Taking in the view from the dark verandah

  "People have a right to misgovern themselves, - that was and is the unanswerable anti-colonial argument."
• Death of a nation

  "The bleakness of J M Coetzee's novels has always been their most marked characteristic; that and a cultivated absorption in wider literary frameworks."
• Paperbacks

  "A collection of essays on South African Literature."
• Lost for Words

  "He spent time studying under the revered Afrikaans poets N. P. van Wyk Louw and Ernst van Heerden. He had close links to Breyten Breytenbach, whom he considers one of the world's greatest poets."
• Escaping from the laager
• Lilliput's hour?