Rian Malan

Rian Malan (Johannesburg, 1954) è un giornalista, scrittore e cantautore sudafricano.

Preminentemente noto per Il mio cuore di traditore (My traitor's heart), libro di memorie incentrato sulla tematica delle discriminazioni razziali nel Sudafrica dell'Apartheid. Ha lavorato come giornalista in Sud Africa e negli Stati Uniti. Rian Malan è cresciuto in un sobborgo di Johannesburg, in una famiglia di ceto medio, favorevole all'apartheid; lascia il paese nel 1977 per stabilirsi a Los Angeles ed evitare così la coscrizione obbligatoria.

Opere

(EN) The Lion Sleeps Tonight: And Other Stories of Africa, Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013, ISBN 9780802121837.
(EN) My traitor's heart : blood and bad dreams: a South African explores the madness in his country, his tribe and himself, London, Vintage, 1990, ISBN 9780099749004.
(IT) Il mio cuore di traditore, collana Frecce, traduzione di Roberta Rambelli, Milano, Mondadori, 1990, ISBN 9788804324287.

Note

↑ Rian Malan, su Il Foglio, ilfoglio.it, 30 novembre 1999. URL consultato il 12 giugno 2021.
«Il libro – che lo ha reso ammirato e detestato – si intitolava significativamente “My Traitor's Heart”.»
↑ (EN) Rian Malan, su penguin.com.au. URL consultato il 24 maggio 2021.
«Rian Malan was born in South Africa in 1954. He has worked as a journalist in South Africa and in the United States.»
↑ (EN) Fred De Vries, The Fred de Vries Interviews: From Abdullah to Zille, Wits University Press, ISBN 9781868144693.
↑ (EN) Kim Hubbard, Rian Malan Follows His Troubled Heart Home to South Africa, su PEOPLE.com. URL consultato il 24 maggio 2021.
«In 1977, when Rian Malan fled his native South Africa for America, he believed his motives were simple. He was an eighth-generation Afrikaner, but he detested his country’s apartheid policies and wanted to avoid the military service that would have made him their enforcer. The truth, Malan says he knows now, was both more complicated and less noble. In fact, he felt torn between his affection for blacks and his inescapable loyalty to “tribe and family.” And he was afraid: “I saw grim trouble coming, and I didn’t want to be there when it happened.”»

Voci correlate

Controllo di autorità	VIAF (EN) 9896250 · ISNI (EN) 0000 0001 1593 0858 · Europeana agent/base/83507 · LCCN (EN) n87920438 · GND (DE) 134275128 · BNE (ES) XX836335 (data) · BNF (FR) cb12204041b (data) · J9U (EN, HE) 987007274731405171

Portale Biografie

Portale Letteratura

[1] Rian Malan, su Il Foglio, ilfoglio.it, 30 novembre 1999. URL consultato il 12 giugno 2021.
«Il libro – che lo ha reso ammirato e detestato – si intitolava significativamente “My Traitor's Heart”.»

[2] (EN) Rian Malan, su penguin.com.au. URL consultato il 24 maggio 2021.
«Rian Malan was born in South Africa in 1954. He has worked as a journalist in South Africa and in the United States.»

[3] (EN) Fred De Vries, The Fred de Vries Interviews: From Abdullah to Zille, Wits University Press, ISBN 9781868144693.

[4] (EN) Kim Hubbard, Rian Malan Follows His Troubled Heart Home to South Africa, su PEOPLE.com. URL consultato il 24 maggio 2021.
«In 1977, when Rian Malan fled his native South Africa for America, he believed his motives were simple. He was an eighth-generation Afrikaner, but he detested his country’s apartheid policies and wanted to avoid the military service that would have made him their enforcer. The truth, Malan says he knows now, was both more complicated and less noble. In fact, he felt torn between his affection for blacks and his inescapable loyalty to “tribe and family.” And he was afraid: “I saw grim trouble coming, and I didn’t want to be there when it happened.”»