| Mark Gevisser | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 South Africa |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Mark Gevisser (born 1964) is a South African author and journalist. His latest book is The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers(2020). Previous books include A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream and Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir. His journalism has appeared in many publications, including The Guardian, The New York Times, Granta, and the New York Review of Books.
Ранняя жизнь [ править ]
Марк Гевиссер родился в 1964 году в Южной Африке. Он окончил Йельский университет в 1987 году с отличием по специальности « сравнительное литературоведение» .
Карьера [ править ]
Гевиссер начал свою карьеру в Нью-Йорке, где он работал в Village Voice и The Nation, прежде чем вернуться в Южную Африку в 1990 году. [1] На протяжении многих лет его работы публиковались в Mail & Guardian , The Sunday Times , the Sunday Independent. , The New York Times Magazine , The Observer , The Guardian [2] и The New York Times . [3]
Gevisser's book on the South African president, Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred, won the 2008 Alan Paton Award; his political profiles were collected as Portraits of Power: Profiles in a New South Africa, published in 1996; and he co-edited Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa with Edwin Cameron.[4] An abridged version of the Mbeki biography, A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream, was published in 2009, with an epilogue briefly detailing Mbeki's usurpation at the hands of Jacob Zuma. Gevisser's book Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir was published in 2014. It was among the finalists for that year's Jan Michalski Prize.
Books[edit]
- Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South Africa (David Philip, 1996, ISBN 9780864863140)
- Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred (Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2007, ISBN 9781868423019)
- Abridged version: A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream (St. Martin's Press, 2009, ISBN 9780230611009)
- Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014, ISBN 9780374176761)
- The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020, ISBN 9780374279967)
Personal life[edit]
Gevisser lives in Kalk Bay, outside Cape Town in South Africa, with his husband.
Notes[edit]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 31 May 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2009. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ The Times(1)
- ^ New York Times(1)
- ^ The Times(1)
References[edit]
- "Mark Gevisser biography". The Times. Retrieved 8 March 2009. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)[permanent dead link]
- Gevisser, Mark (12 December 2007). "Op-ed: South Africa Grows Up". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March 2009. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
External links[edit]
- Extract from The Dream Deferred
