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WHITE SCARS
Non-Fiction (Essays) 196 pages
Jacana Media (South Africa) - August 25, 2006
A lyrical meditation on reading and its significance in our lives, focusing on four works that changed the author – books by Perec, Raymond Carver, and poet Breyten Breytenbach, as well as a book on the Sharpeville shootings.
'A richly intimate book that will be a hit with anyone who shares my personal fetish for that peculiarly intimate and revealing genre of writers writing about writing…A wonderfully inspiring text on the strange power of mourning and human loss.' -- Alex Dodd, Business Day
Biography
Poet, actor and lecturer in literature.
Denis Hirson grew up in South Africa and now lives in Paris. He's translated Breyten Breytenbach's poetry and is the editor of THE LAVA OF THIS LAND, an anthology of South African poetry (North Western Press, US; Actes Sud, France) and co-editor of THE HEINEMANN BOOK OF SOUTH AFRICAN SHORT STORIES. His poetry, stories and essays have appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Boston Review, City Lights and New Directions.
Author of I REMEMBER KING KONG (THE BOXER) and WE WALK STRAIGHT SO YOU BETTER GET OUT THE WAY (both published by Jacana in South Africa) and the memoir THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR TO AFRICA (SA: David Philip).
Now completing a collection of poetry GARDENING IN THE DARK, to be published by Jacana in SA.
Denis Hirson's WHITE SCARS (SA: Jacana, 2006) was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Non-Fiction Prize 2007.
'Whether in prose or verse, Denis Hirson's writings reveal a remarkable combination of strength, delicacy, and humour. After a traumatic childhood in South Africa, where his father was thrown into jail for many years because of his resistance to the Apartheid regime, Hirson settled in France; however, he has never severed the connection between himself and the country where he grew up. For him it remains a place of pain and absurdity, cruelty and pathos, to which his memories constantly return, and within which he searches constantly for the truth about his own life and the lives of many others.'
-- Dan Jacobson, author of HESHEL'S KINGDOM and ALL FOR LOVE.
Denis Hirson grew up in South Africa and now lives in Paris. He's translated Breyten Breytenbach's poetry and is the editor of THE LAVA OF THIS LAND, an anthology of South African poetry (North Western Press, US; Actes Sud, France) and co-editor of THE HEINEMANN BOOK OF SOUTH AFRICAN SHORT STORIES. His poetry, stories and essays have appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Boston Review, City Lights and New Directions.
Author of I REMEMBER KING KONG (THE BOXER) and WE WALK STRAIGHT SO YOU BETTER GET OUT THE WAY (both published by Jacana in South Africa) and the memoir THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR TO AFRICA (SA: David Philip).
Now completing a collection of poetry GARDENING IN THE DARK, to be published by Jacana in SA.
Denis Hirson's WHITE SCARS (SA: Jacana, 2006) was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Non-Fiction Prize 2007.
'Whether in prose or verse, Denis Hirson's writings reveal a remarkable combination of strength, delicacy, and humour. After a traumatic childhood in South Africa, where his father was thrown into jail for many years because of his resistance to the Apartheid regime, Hirson settled in France; however, he has never severed the connection between himself and the country where he grew up. For him it remains a place of pain and absurdity, cruelty and pathos, to which his memories constantly return, and within which he searches constantly for the truth about his own life and the lives of many others.'
-- Dan Jacobson, author of HESHEL'S KINGDOM and ALL FOR LOVE.
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