Mark Behr

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Mark Behr is a South African author. He has written two books, both dealing in some way with apartheid and the history of South Africa.

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Behr attended the Drakensberg Boys Choir Music School (later the setting for his novel Embrace), and then studied at the University of Stellenbosch.

He currently lives in Santa Fe, where he writes and teaches at the College of Santa Fe as the Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature.

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His first novel, Die Reuk van Appels (The Smell of Apples) was critically very well received. It dealt with the apartheid system as seen through the eyes of a young Afrikaner boy, Marnus. He followed this with Embrace, a novel about the early adolescence of Karl De Man, a 13-year-old Afrikaner, and in particular his awakening gay identity and relationships with both his choirmaster and his precocious, politically liberal best friend Dominic.