A poetic pilgrimage in the footsteps of Roy Campbell
Anthony Akerman explains what drew him to Roy Campbell and takes the reader on a literary pilgrimage that ends in a remote Portuguese hillside cemetery.
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Anthony Akerman explains what drew him to Roy Campbell and takes the reader on a literary pilgrimage that ends in a remote Portuguese hillside cemetery.
When he was 10 years old, Anthony Akerman was told he’d been adopted. It was a seismic event that turned his world upside down.
In 1974, ‘Kennis van die aand’ was deemed ‘undesirable’ and become the first literary work in Afrikaans to be banned by the apartheid state.
Being in exile for 27 years meant Vernie February was not as well known in South Africa as he deserved to be.
Playwright Anthony Akerman traces the convergences and divergences between his life and that of AnnMarie Wolpe who sacrificed greatly for her husband’s anti-apartheid activism.