An interview with Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay has written 21 novels since the Power of One was published in 1989, that's a novel a year.

While he's clearly a prolific writer, reading is an important part of his life too, despite a childhood of deprivation in South Africa where he was brought up in an Afrikaner orphanage, and banned from speaking English or reading English books.

For our Off the Shelf segment of favorite books, Bryce Courtenay tells us how books saved his life as a young boy.

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