![]() ![]() This event was produced in collaboration with Gothenburg Book Fair. They are in conversation about the role of the novelist, the importance of documenting history in fiction and the burden of the survivor as a storyteller. ![]() ![]() Kagiso Lesego Molope and Zakes Mda are both apartheid survivors and have written extensively about apartheid. SAST (Capetown, UTC +2).įor novelists whose works are situated in conflict zones, could it be said that they must be seen as having multiple roles? In these worlds where books are banned and libraries are lost, can the novel then be considered an archival site, a place where the people's histories can be documented? Though this can often be said about historical fiction, novelists writing about conflict zones have the added pressure of recording history as it happens or from recent memory. Safe Havens Freedom Talks (SH|FT) presented a Freedom Talk: The Novelist as Knowledge Keeper livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at on Friday 14 October 2022 at 8:30 a.m. ![]()
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