The Petrona books blog alerts us to the fact that TheBookseller.com’s Catherine Neilan profiled crime writer Deon Meyer – and his Benny Griesel thriller, Thirteen Hours – ahead of Meyer’s appearance at the London Book Fair this April:
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“It’s extremely difficult for South African authors to break through here, so I will do as much as I can for the country,” Meyer says. “It’s absolutely a great time to be at LBF, because there has been an explosion of South African literature in the past few years, and there are some great new authors—a lot of black authors I think—not getting the recognition they deserve.”
On a personal level, Meyer is keen to use the platform to promote his own work, but recognises he has to “keep plugging away” to grow sales book by book. Thirteen Hours is his ninth novel, although only his sixth to be published in the UK.
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