Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach’s account of his political imprisonment in South Africa, The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist (Faber/Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1984) was extracted in Granta 12. Return to Paradise (Faber/Harcourt, 1994) won South Africa’s Alan Paton Award in 1994. His most recent book is A Veil of Footsteps (2008), published in South Africa by Human & Rousseau.