SOURCE: "An Interview with André Brink," in New York Times Book Review, Vol. 85, March 23, 1980, pp. 15, 20.

In the following interview between Brink and Eder, the issues of writing under censorship and of writing in two languages are discussed.

To make laws is to make loopholes. Or, prohibition is the stepmother of invention. André Brink, an Afrikaans writer, has been creeping through and around South African censorship ever since one of his first books, Looking on Darkness, was banned in 1974.

Mr. Brink has devised a kind of private publishing system that is not strictly underground, nor quite overground either. It is a kind of hedge-hopping; and it sold 4,000 copies of A Dry White Season in South Africa before the censors caught up with it, banned it temporarily and then released it.

The 44-year-old author, who was here on his way to serve on a literary jury in Oklahoma, explained the...