In an interview for the Telegraph conducted by Justin Cartwright, author of Other People?s Money, Rian Malan seems to offer a swinging pendulum of thoughts on South Africa.
Cartwright calls Malan, who has never been far from controversy since the publication of his seminal work My Traitor?s Heart, ?South Africa?s Christopher Hitchens? and Malan himself says, ?I was an atheist in the great revival tent of the new South Africa. The faith on offer was too simple and sentimental, answers it offered too easy?.
However, Malan seems to have retained some faith in the country, believing in simple justice. He describes South Africa as a journalist?s dream because there are always stories to tell. He tells some of these stories in his latest book, out after a 25 year hiatus, called The Lion Sleeps Tonight: and Other Stories of Africa.
Not so long ago I shared a platform with Rian Malan at a literary festival, and we were asked about literary success. Malan said: ?Don?t ask me, I am a one-hit wonder.? As he approaches 60, Malan is both burdened and blessed by the fact that nearly 25 years ago he wrote the astonishing My Traitor?s Heart, a memoir of his life as a young Afrikaner South African, and a book like no other to come out of the cramped literary world of South Africa. It was a worldwide success but he has not written another book since. Instead, he has been a prolific journalist and a vigorous and fearless contrarian.
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