The Sunday Times has been asking various South African authors what they would be, if not a writer. The responses have been interesting, sometimes surprising, never quite what one would expect. This is certainly true of that given by Kgebetli Moele (latest: The Book of the Dead), who approaches the question from an existentialist angle:
What am I? Except for the given things in life; my name, my race, the fact that I am a male?
What am I really? I am not sure that I am even a writer. Sure, I have published a book or two but I do not publish books every day of my life, like some of the professions in which an individual does his or her work and lives their work - like a doctor. I think that doctors live a doctor's life as politicians live a political life.
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