From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 20 22:10:39 2024
South African writer and political activist.
Booker Prize 1974 for _The Conservationist_.
Nobel Prize for Literature 1991.
"The only thing I really regret...[is] just to have studied foreign
languages and not learnt an African language. So like most other South
Africans , there I am sitting with my black friends and we're all
talking in English, and then I may go out of the room perhaps to get a
bucket of ice or something and come back...and they have broken into
their own language. They're talking Setswana, they're talking Zulu,
whatever, and I am then a stranger in my own country and among my own
people."