"We, as writers, played a part in liberating this country because we were liberating thought, therefore we have to be taken seriously when it comes to deciding on a political future". (Nadine Gordimer ) Christopher Hope returns to his native country to find out how South African novelists, poets and playwrights are adjusting to their altered state.
The contributors include
Nobel Prize-winner Nadine
Gordimer, Booker Prize-winner J M Coetzee,
Andre Brink , Mike Nicol , Elsa Joubert ,
Dalene Matthee , Ellen Kuzwayo , Maishe Maponya , Sipho Sepamla , Ian Steadman and Njabulo Ndebele.