Daily Read: Constitutionalism and Literature

The marvelous and brilliant South African writer Antjie Krog (pictured right) asks some important questions

This makes me wonder: which books are on the bedside tables of our ministers? How many book shelves had been built into the newly renovated presidential and ministerial houses? How many reading circles are in the parliamentary complexes? What novels are the captains of industry reading there in business class? What poetry volumes are in the judges' smart cases? What literary texts are to be found in doctors' waiting rooms, or on teachers' or parents' tables?

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Why should a country read its writers?

Antjie Krog provides some answers in her speech at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, as published in The Guardian.

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