 Willemien de Villiers: author of Kitchen Casualties and the upcoming The Virgin in the Treehouse (both published by Jacana Books).
1. When did you first start writing?
Probably as soon as I was physically able to, as I don’t remember a time without a connection to words and books and reading and writing. I was fascinated by the magical qualities of language from a very young age; by the ability of ‘The line of words [to] finger your own heart,’ as Annie Dillard so succinctly puts in The Writing Life.
2. What do you love most about writing?
The way it creates calm and order from my ever-churning internal chaos; the way it brings me to new insights about myself and the world I live in. |
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 John van de Ruit, author of the hugely successful Spud, and its sequel, Spud – the Madness continues… is as down to earth as it is possible to be after having sold over sixty thousand copies of his first novel, and being hailed as a South African literary phenomenon. He seems, more than anything, amused by the fuss, amused and delighted that his imagination and his sense of humour reach such a wide audience.
We chat to him about writing, his rise to literary fame, and living and working in Durban. |
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