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| south african writers | |
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| 1903 births | |
| 1973 deaths | |
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He became famous in South Africa with his first novel ''Turbott Wolfe'' which had inter-racial love and marriage as a theme. He was co-editor of the satirical magazine ''Voorslagl'' ("Whiplash") with two other South African rebels Roy Campbell and Laurens Van Der Post ; it promoted a racially equal South Africa. He spent a period in Japan , where he was friendly with Sherard Vines . There, according to biographers, he was in a Homosexual relationship with a Japanese man. He was never openly homosexual, during his whole lifetime, at most alluding to the subject. He then moved to England and, through his friendship with his publisher Virginia Woolf , entered the London literary circles there. He became an important literary editor, for Faber And Faber . He was active as a Librettist , with ''Gloriana'', ''Curlew River'' and ''The Prodigal Son'' for Benjamin Britten . BIBLIOGRAPHY
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