Rian Malan (1954, Johannesburg) is a South African author, journalist and songwriter of Afrikaner descent. Malan developed as a teenager a hazardous predilection for partying with township artists. Avoiding the apartheid military draft, he moved to the USA to become a keen observer of and writer about violence in contemporary society. He was able to return to South Africa in the 1980s, where he wrote My Traitor's Heart, about modern South Africa: a memoir of growing up in Apartheid-era South Africa, in which he explores along the way race relations through prominent murder ca… read more
Rian Malan (1954, Johannesburg) is a South African author, journalist and songwriter of Afrikaner descent. Malan developed as a teenager a hazardous predilection for partying with township artists. Avoiding the apartheid military draft, he moved to the USA to become a keen observer of and w… read more
Rian Malan (1954, Johannesburg) is a South African author, journalist and songwriter of Afrikaner descent. Malan developed as a teenager a hazardous predilection for partying with township artists. Avoiding the apartheid military draft, he moved to the USA to become a keen observer of and writer about violence in contemporary society. He was able to return to S… read more
