Toni Morrison en Marlene van Niekerk in gesprek met Anthony Appiah (audio)

Gesprek met Toni Morrison en Marlene van Niekerk, onder moderatie van Anthony Appiah, op het PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.

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Marlene van Niekerk is best known for her novel Triomf, a darkly comic and controversial depiction of post-apartheid South Africa, written in her native Afrikaans. Of her latest novel, Agaat, Toni Morrison has said, “I was immediately mesmerized.… Its beauty matches its depth and her achievement is as brilliant as it is haunting.” On this special occasion, the Nobel Prize-winning author of such novels as Beloved, Sula, Song of Solomon, and most recently A Mercy, talks with her South African colleague about politics, language, literature, and more. K. Anthony Appiah, PEN American Center president and the author of Cosmopolitanism and many other books, conducts the conversation between these eminent and engaged writers.