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Rian Malan

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born

Johannesburg, South Africa

gender

male

genre

Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs

influences

pro-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 pro-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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Books by Rian Malan

Average rating: 4.28 · 710 ratings · 92 reviews · 6 distinct works

	My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience 4.31 avg rating — 683 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Resident Alien 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Lion Sleeps Tonight 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	The Lion Sleeps at Night 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Great Railway Journeys by Clive Anderson, Rian Malan 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings	My rating:
	Life In The Liberated Zone by David Lurie, Rian Malan 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994	My rating:

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