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/ 14 May 2004

In living colour

He’s shy at first, or perhaps just slightly vulnerable — after all, he’s made his intensely personal story about growing up coloured in apartheid South Africa a public one. Novelist and poet Chris van Wyk has recently published his tragicomic memoir called <i>Shirley, Goodness & Mercy</i>. He spoke to Nikki Temkin.