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Henk Rossouw

Henk Rossouw was born in South Africa and has worked as a correspondent for the Chronicle of Higher Education and a stringer for Newsweek. His writings have also appeared in the Threepenny Review, the American Prospect, the Christian Science Monitor, the Guardian Weekly, Zuidelijk Afrika (Amsterdam), and the Sunday Independent, the Mail & Guardian, and the Sunday Times, in South Africa. His short story “Unslung” appears in the Spring 2007 issue of Tin House magazine.

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An Interview with Nadine Gordimer

By Nadine Gordimer, Henk Rossouw

March 12, 2007 | Poetry

We’ve got to examine truth. To me, writing, from the very beginning and right until this day, is a voyage of discovery. Of the mystery of life. I am one of those people who have no religious faith, I am an atheist. I believe there is only this life. But this life is so incredible. And early on I found that you think, for instance, you know people, you think you know someone. But the person who is in a different relationship with that person knows a different person. So there are all these facets . . .

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