aridag5Jun 11, 20201 minInside the emotion of fictionSoon I realized how much the old San Bushman shaman could “tell me” with his simple gestures and facial expressions. In this passage...
aridag5Jun 1, 20203 minBILINGUAL WRITERS, (SELF-)TRANSLATION AND THE STYLISTIC REVOLUTIONBilingualism and self-translation may be used to question or redefine one’s cultural identity and to dislocate and decentralize...
aridag5May 30, 20201 minFinding oneself on the wrong side of historyAlan Twigg's review of my novel The Afrikaner in the spring issue of "BC Booklook" goes to the core of the predicament faced by the...
aridag5May 19, 20201 minAre we writers or marketers?In this era of market-oriented mechanisms and vanishing privileges, are writers still allowed to dedicate themselves to simply write...
aridag5May 9, 20201 minZoe’s Story, “The Afrikaner,” Goes InternationalA woman scientist ventures into a scorching desert to search for fossils and confront the dark shadows of her Afrikaner heritage. Set...
aridag5Apr 24, 20201 minAudiobook of “The Afrikaner” (Chapter 1)Listen to an audio excerpt from Arianna Dagnino’s novel “The Afrikaner” read by the Los Angeles-based, South African actor Dennis...
aridag5Apr 17, 20201 minHow much freedom should a creative writer have?I thank the South African writer Toni Henning for her review of my novel “The Afrikaner” (Guernica Editions, Toronto, 2019). One comment...