Documents for "South African Literature: Biographies":

• Brutus, Dennis Vincent 1924-, South African poet, b. Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Brutus grew up in South Africa and received (1947) his B.A. from its Univ. of Fort Hare at Alice. He taught high school...

• Campbell, Roy 1901-57, South African poet and satirist. After some time in England and France Campbell returned to South Africa to edit Voorslag [Whiplash], a satirical magazine, publishing works such as The Flaming...

• Coetzee, J. M. (John Maxwell Coetzee) , 1940-, South African novelist, b. John Michael Coetzee. Educated at the Univ. of Cape Town (M.A. 1963) and the Univ. of Texas (Ph.D. 1969), he taught in the United States and returned home (1983)...

• Fugard, Athol (Athol Harold Lanigan Fugard) , 1932-, South African playwright, actor, and director. In 1965 he became director of the Serpent Players in Port Elizabeth; in 1972 he was a founder of Cape Town's Space Experimental Theatre. One...

• Gordimer, Nadine 1923-, South African writer, b. Springs. She published her first short story at age 15 and later many of her stories appeared in The New Yorker magazine. Her collections include Selected Stories...

• Head, Bessie 1937-86, South African writer. Born in South Africa to a white mother and black father, she was placed in foster homes and orphanages as a child. After 1964, she lived in exile in Botswana. Her...

• Iron, Ralph see Schreiner, Olive.

• Millin, Sarah Gertrude (Liebson) 1889-1968, South African writer. The first of her novels about colonial and racial problems in South Africa is Dark River (1920). Later novels include God's Stepchildren (1924), What Hath a Man?...

• Mphahlele, Es'kia (Ezekiel Es'kia Mphahlele) , 1919-, South African writer. He began his career as a writer for Drum magazine after World War II and published his first stories, Man Must Live, in 1947. He emigrated from South Africa in 1957, when the government banned him because of his stand against apartheid. He received a Ph.D. from the Univ. of Denver (1968) and left a full professorship at the Univ. of Pennsylvania to return to South Africa in 1977. In 1978 he became a professor at Witwatersrand...

• Paton, Alan 1903-88, South African novelist. A devoted leader in the struggle to end the oppression of the South African blacks, he served (1935-47) as principal of the Diepkloof Reformatory (near...

• Schreiner, Olive pseud. Ralph Iron, 1855-1920, South African author and feminist, b. Wittebergen Reserve, Cape Colony. After several years as a governess, she went to England in 1881, taking with her the manuscript of her famous...