Darrel Bristow-Bovey

Darrel Bristow-Bovey (6 April 1971, Durban) is a South African columnist, travel writer, screenwriter and author. He studied under J. M. Coetzee and André Brink at the University of Cape Town. Quotes Usually when I’m writing a feature film I long to be writing long descriptive passages in which nothing is happening except the leisurely unspooling of a character’s interior life, and when I’m writing a book I long to be able to able to write a pithy exchange of dialogue and leave it to the director and actors and a special effects budget to make it come to life, so the answer would usually be, “Whatever I’m not doing at the moment.” But the truth is that I have never felt quite so at peace and fulfilled as I felt in the months when Finding Endurance occupied every waking minute, and filled my resting unconscious. It was a rare experience of feeling as though I was precisely where I should be, doing precisely what I should be doing. The first thing everyone asks is, “What is there new to say about Shackleton?” There’s a great deal new to say – not only because far more of the expedition diaries are available today than was the case when the first biographies were being written, and not only because the recent re-discovery of Endurance intact at the bottom of the Weddell Sea has added entirely new chapters of adventure to the story, but because the meaning of the Antarctic itself has changed since Shackleton was there. The meanings of words like “heroism” and “survival” and “endurance” have changed. External links Category: Living people