Mark Gevisser

Mark Gevisser (b. 1964, South Africa) is an award-winning author, journalist and editor of several non-fiction books, who lives in Kalk Bay, just outside of Cape Town. His latest books include The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers (2020) and the updated edition of Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred (2022).
Gevisser has previously lived in the United States, where he studied at Yale, and in France. He has also curated exhibitions, taught non-fiction writing and made documentary films.
Mark is currently working on a biography of the pioneering German-Jewish sexologist and human rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld.