Ariel Dorfman to deliver the Eighth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture

World-acclaimed Chilean-American author, human rights activist and distinguished professor of Literature and Latin-American Studies at Duke University, Ariel Dorfman, will present the Eighth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture at Johannesburg’s Linder Auditorium on July 31, 2010.
        The author of many novels, plays, poems, essays and films will speak on the theme “Memory and Justice” at the 2010 Annual Lecture. Dorfman's books with Duke University Press are: The Empire's Old Clothes, In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land, and Some Write to the Future.
    “We are thrilled to have a speaker of the stature of Ariel Dorfman,” says Achmat Dangor, Chief Executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. “His life and work speaks to what we at the Nelson Mandela Foundation are doing through our Centre of Memory and Dialogue.”
    Previous Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture speakers are: Nobel Peace Laureates Professor Muhammad Yunus, Professor Wangari Maathai, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Kofi Anan, former presidents Bill Clinton and Thabo Mbeki, and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.

Ariel Dorfman’s biography is available as a downloadable PDF.