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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Christopher Hope, “Satire on SA Wins British Award”, The Argus 1 Feb. 1985. 2 Personal correspondence, 20 June 2003. 3 Jane Watts discusses the proliferation of black autobiographically inspired text during the 1950s and 1960s in Black Writers from South Africa. See particularly the chapter “Autobiographical Writings” (107–52). 4 For example, Rian Malan’s My Traitor’s Heart (1990 Malan, Rian. 1990. My Traitor’s Heart, London: Vintage. [Google Scholar]), Sindiwe Magona’s Forced to Grow (1992 Magona, Sindiwe. 1992. Forced to Grow, London: The Women’s Press Ltd. [Google Scholar]) and Gillian Slovo’s Every Secret Thing (1997 Slovo, Gillian. 2000. Every Secret Thing. My Family, My Country, London: Abacus. 1997 [Google Scholar]). 5 Slovo resides in London but returned to South Africa for the TRC hearing which considered the events surrounding the death of her mother, Ruth First, by bomb blast (1982). 6 Interview conducted by Rachel Holmes with Barbara Trapido in Cambridge, 6 Mar. 2004. 7 Interview conducted by Sheila Boniface Davies with Sindiwe Magona in Cambridge, 4 Mar. 2004. 8 It is also important to remember that apartheid laws, such as the Publications & Entertainment Act (1963) and the Suppression of Communism Amendment Act (1966), “ensured the exile of [exiled writers’] writings as effectively as the threat of violence had ensured the exile of their bodies” (Watts 3). Many of those who stayed in South Africa had books censored and, in extreme cases (for example Denis Brutus and Alex La Guma), were banned from writing. 9 The Star 10 Mar. 1982: 15. 10 In an article which address a “fast‐growing genre of expatriate novels, books written by ex‐South Africans”, Michiel Heyns writes: They [Patrick Lee’s Discards and Siobhan Loftus’ Ubuntu] are evidently written in an attempt to inform non‐South Africans of South African realities; and inevitably as a resident South African, one will want to disagree with aspects of the depiction of a country that the authors may have lost touch with. (12)