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In Meditations of a Non-White White, Allan Kolski Horwitz scrapes away superficial assumptions of post-apartheid South Africa with satire and brutal realism. This beguiling collection probes the limitations of middle-class norms and blinkered identities, and grapples with the diverse experiences of the many millions living on the margins of the country’s privileged ghettoes.
In sixteen expertly rendered stories, Horwitz brings to life a host of characters whose circumstances represent the complex legacies of apartheid and reconciliation, but are, in many respects, startlingly timeless and universal. A renowned educator and founder of the Botsotso art collective, Horwitz has his finger on the pulse of a changing nation and world.
ALLAN KOLSKI HORWITZ was born and raised in South Africa. In his twenties, he moved between the Middle East, Europe, and North America, before returning to live in Johannesburg in 1986. Since then, he has worked as an organizer and educator in the South African trade union and social housing movements. He is a writer, songwriter, and singer, a member of the Botsotso Jesters poetry performance group, and sits on the Botsotso Publishing editorial board. His short fiction has been published in three collections: Un/common Ground, Out of the Wreckage, and Meditations of a Non-White White. He has received the Olive Schreiner Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Short Fiction.