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Marlene van Niekerk

Marlene van Niekerk is a South African author who is best known for her novel Triomf. Her graphic and controversial descriptions of a poor Afrikaner family in Johannesburg brought her to the forefront of a post-apartheid society, still struggling to come to terms with all the changes in South Africa.

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Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

Beautiful, Hollow, Nobody, Novel, Rate

We all have to do things in this life that we don't like.

Life, Like, Things, This Life

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

Important, Mouldering, Smallest, Stone, Stones, Tree

Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.

Exercise, Inner, Publish, Sentences, Thinking, Writing

. . . a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

Butterfly, Captivity, Person, Soul

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

Pseudo, Restore, State, States, Substance

Marriage is holy and it's private.

Holy, Marriage, Private

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