Archie Crail

Archie Crail (born 1944 in Paarl, South Africa) is a South African-Canadian writer. He was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1992 Governor General's Awards for his short story collection The Bonus Deal.

Background A coloured South African of Khoisan descent, Crail was born and raised in Paarl. he was an anti-apartheid activist with the African National Congress, He later spent several years living in South-West Africa, continuing his political activism with SWAPO, and was produced by Saskatoon's 25th Street Theatre in 1990. A touring production of Exile was later mounted in South Africa. Several of the short stories in The Bonus Deal were also dramatized for CBC Radio.

In 1991, after the South African government lifted its ban on exiled African National Congress members returning to South Africa, Crail attended the organization's conference in Durban.

Works Exile (1990) The Bonus Deal (1992)