Rian Malan (Author of My Traitor's Heart)

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Rian Malan

Born

Johannesburg, South Africa

Genre

Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs

Influences

anti-apartheid

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Rian Malan is a South African author, journalist, documentarist and songwriter of Afrikaner descent. He first rose to prominence as the author of the memoir My Traitor's Heart, which, like the bulk of his work, deals with South African society in a historical and contemporary perspective and focuses on racial relations. As a journalist, he has written for major newspapers in South Africa, Great Britain and the USA.Malan grew up in a middle-class and anti-apartheid Afrikaner family in a white suburb of Johannesburg. He has described how, as a teenager, he formed a rock band that associated with black artists and wanted to rebel against the apartheid system, at a time when he in fact had virtually no interaction with black people. He attended ...more

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	My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience 4.25 avg rating — 3,884 ratings — published 1990 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“In South Africa, it's like a law of nature: there's no such thing as a true story here. The facts may be correct, but the truth they embody is always a lie to someone else. Every inch of our soil is contested, every word in our histories likewise; our languages are mutually incomprehensible, our philosophies irreconcilable.”
― Rian Malan, The Lion Sleeps Tonight

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“These were facts, not myths, although what freight they carried I could not say. I was deaf in Simon鈥檚 language, and blind in his culture. In the end, all I really”
― Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience

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