Mark Gevisser
Mark Gevisser is the author of A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream, 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. His journalism has appeared in publications and journals including Granta, the New York Times, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Public Culture, Foreign Affairs and Art in America. He currently writes most regularly for the Guardian in the UK and the Mail & Guardian and the Sunday Times in South Africa. He lives in Cape Town.
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Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Self-Made Man
Mark Gevisser
Mark Gevisser examines the personal, political and social issues of transgender identity in America.
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Mark Gevisser and Jonny Steinberg: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 86
Mark Gevisser & Jonny Steinberg
In the latest Granta podcast, Mark Gevisser and Jonny Steinberg discuss recent South African history,...
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Edenvale
Mark Gevisser
‘The city was also a place of possibility and even, paradoxically, liberation.’