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David Albertyn

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Durban, South Africa

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Thriller, Fiction, Sports

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Hilary Mantel, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe, J.R.R. Tolkien, Micha ...more

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David Albertyn (1983) was born in Durban, South Africa, and grew up in Toronto, Canada. He studied at Queen’s University and the Humber School for Writers, and coached tennis until the publication of his first novel, “Undercard” (2019), which was a finalist for the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award. It also made 49th Shelf’s Top Fiction List of 2019 and CrimeReads’ list of “8 Debut Novels You Should Read This June” (2020). Among many sports, he primarily competed in track and field growing up, then in tennis as an adult. When he completes a draft of a novel, he does as much yoga and running in nature as he can, promptly burns out, and as soon as he’s recovered, it’s time to work on a new draft. His goal is to write visceral novels that are ...more

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Average rating: 4.25 · 138 ratings · 68 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Undercard 4.24 avg rating — 131 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grow Together by Immigrant Writers Association, David Albertyn (Goodreads Author), Gabriela Casineanu (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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What is Good Writing and How to Achieve It

It's the question that is so often asked by writers, readers, editors and agents: what exactly is good writing? Beyond simply adequate vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, stylistic techniques, and so on, what makes a book—and in this context a book of fiction—well written? I have often heard people in the industry say, you can't exactly pinpoint what good writing is, you just feel it. I feel Read more of this blog post »

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“Antoine knows it is imperative that he wins. But he cannot remember why. Everything before this fight has faded into a distant and irretrievable past.”
― David Albertyn, Undercard

tags: action, boxing, memory-loss

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David’s Quotes

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

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“The bottom line of the Dune trilogy is: beware of heroes. Much better [to] rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes.”
― Frank Herbert

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“Antoine knows it is imperative that he wins. But he cannot remember why. Everything before this fight has faded into a distant and irretrievable past.”
― David Albertyn, Undercard

tags: action, boxing, memory-loss

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“… and there was much blood, many motherless, many maimed legs, many broken homes and all because a few hungry souls sick with greed wanted everything for themselves. They took the virtues that arise from that as true virtues of the human heart. They practised charity, pity; they even made laws and rules of good conduct for those they had made motherless, for those they had driven into the streets. Tell me … would we need pity, charity, generosity, kindness if there were no poor and miserable to pity and be kind to?”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Petals of Blood

tags: african-literature, colonialism, neocolonialism, resistance

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“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert