Who Did What in South Africa

ASVAT, Farouk
His poems, short stories and essays have been published in many magazines,and he has read his work from many public platforms. He was working at the Zanem- pilo Community Health Centre at the time of its closure during a crackdown ontheblackconsciousnessmovement, and was banned (1973-78). He won the Ad.DonkerJVitaAward for poetry (1986) for A Celebration of Flames; he has also published The Time of Our Lives and Exiles Within. He received a Niemann Fellowship (1987) for overseas studies in literature, and worked at the Alexandra Clinic in Johannesburg.

CHRISTIE, Renfrew (1949- )
He served six-and-a-half years of a ten year prison sentence for attempting to pass plans of the Koeberg nuclear plant and information about South Africa’s energy resources to the African National Congress. He accepted the 1985 offer of conditional release by State President P W Botha, signed a declaration renounc- ing violence and was released in December 1986.

COETZEE, John Maxwell (1940-
Author who presents significant social and political themes in sparse and poli- shed prose. His award winning novels in- clude Dusklands (1974) In the Heart of the Country (1977) Waitingfor the Bar- barians (1980) and The Life and times of Michael K which won the Booker McConnell Prize in 1983. Professor of English Literature at the University of Cape Town he is also a linguist, critic and translator. His latest novel, Foe, was short-listed for the 1987 CNA prize.