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Born July 6, 1937 • Pietermaritzburg • South Africa
Died April 17, 1986 (aged 48) • Serowe • Botswana
Notable Works “A Question of Power” • “Maru” • “The Collector of Treasures” • “When Rain Clouds Gather”
Alan Paton
Alan Paton
South African writer
Nadine Gordimer
South African author
Es’kia Mphahlele
South African writer
Plomer
William Plomer
South African writer
Alex La Guma
South African writer
Herman Charles Bosman
South African author
Schreiner, Olive
Olive Schreiner
South African writer
Sarah Gertrude Millin
South African writer
Richard Rive
South African author
Jack Cope
South African writer
Dan Jacobson
South African-born novelist and short-story writer
Stuart Cloete
South African writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
British author
Edna O'Brien
Edna O’Brien
Irish author
Mulk Raj Anand
Mulk Raj Anand
Indian author
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
George Moore, 1908.
George Moore
Irish writer
Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer