Eve Fairbanks
Eve Fairbanks writes about change: in cities, countries, landscapes, morals, values and our ideas of ourselves.
The inheritors, her first book, a portrait of post-apartheid South Africa, was published in February by Jonathan Ball and won the 2023 PEN/America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction.
A former political writer for The New Republic, she has seen her essays and reportage published in The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Guardian, among others.
Born in Washington, DC, and raised in Virginia, she’s lived in South Africa for 13 years.
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Podcast: Johann Rossouw in conversation with Eve Fairbanks about The inheritors: An intimate portrait of a brave and bewildered nation
2023-03-17Eve Fairbanks’s book about post-apartheid South Africa, The inheritors: An intimate portrait of a brave and bewildered nation (Jonathan Ball), was launched on Thursday, 9 March in Bloemfontein. Johann Rossouw interviewed her about her book. Themes such as Girardian mimesis in South Africa, the shared loss of a future, the shared Christian idealism of South Africans and the position of minorities were discussed during this launch.