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← Back to all issuesGranta 69: The Assassin
Spring 2000
In a powerful piece of investigation, Henk van Woerden reconstructs the strange, affecting history of Demitrios Tsafendas – the man who assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd, South African premier and architect of apartheid. Also in this issue: Diana Athill on the need to like V. S. Naipaul; Richard Williams on the search for a long-lost jazz trumpeter; and stories by Graham Swift, Hanif Kureishi, and Paul Theroux.
From this Issue
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Editing Vidia
Diana Athill
‘I thought so highly of Vidia’s writing and felt his presence on our list to be so important that I simply could not allow myself not to like him.’
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The Assassin
Henk van Woerden
‘He stabbed the man in front of him yet again, three more times, before he was overpowered by the bystanders.’
Henk van Woerden on the assassination of the South African Prime Minister in 1966.
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Honolulu Hotel Stories
Paul Theroux
’The Christmas carols in Waikiki were being sung in Japanese‘.
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Goodbye, Mother
Hanif Kureishi
‘If you think the living are difficult to deal with, the dead can be worse‘.
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Our Nicky’s Heart
Graham Swift
‘Frank Randall had three sons: Michael, Eddy and Mark. That was fine by him‘.
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Gifted
Richard Williams
‘The interim report filed by the investigator from the coroner's bureau listed him as a black male, 5ft 7in tall, weighing 1351b‘.
