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Birthday
July 21 1971
Location
Johannesburg, South Africa
About Me
Writer of 20+ years but life got in the way. Back with a vengeance. Currently working on a novella with working title 'Effecting voice of god illusion'. Most of the stuff I write tends to be tragicomedies and structurally experimental. Most themes usually tend towards the absurd. Some of the writers I admire greatly are: Viktor Pelevin, David Foster Wallace, Ben Marcus, Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Beckett, Michel Houellebecq, Alain Badiou, Albert Camus, Andre Platonov, etc.
Type of Writer
Fiction: short stories, novellas, novels
Writing Style
Mostly tragicomedies and structurally experimental. Most themes usually tend towards the absurd.
Interests
Books, chess, music, movies
Favorite Genres
Absurdist, fantastical (not fantasy; I mean writers like Borges), tragicomedy, satire, experimental, philosophical fiction.
Favorite Books
Waiting for Godot, Raise high the roof beam, carpenters, Notes from the underground, Omon Ra, Soul, Brief interviews with hideous men, The age of wire and string, Timequake, The heart of a dog, The possessed, In the penal colony.
Favorite Authors
Viktor Pelevin, David Foster Wallace, Ben Marcus, Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Samuel Beckett, Michel Houellebecq, Alain Badiou, Albert Camus, Andre Platonov, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, etc
Favorite Music
Experimental electronic, classical, jazz, hard rock, some folk, alternative rock, industrial.
Favorite Movies
Twelve monkeys, Amadeus, The life aquatic, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, Dreams, Dogville, The fisher king, The meaning of life, The Wall, Trainspotting, Man bites dog, Songs from the second floor, Taxi driver, Pi, Donnie Darko.
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