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Also Known As Mary Challans
Born September 4, 1905 • London • England
Died December 13, 1983 (aged 78) • Cape Town • South Africa
Notable Works “The King Must Die”
Nadine Gordimer
South African author
Plomer
William Plomer
South African writer
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel
British writer
J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee
South African author
Robert Graves
British writer
David Mitchell
English author
J.G. Farrell
British writer
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley
British clergyman and writer
Horace Smith
English writer
Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, c. 1831; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
British author
Alan Paton
Alan Paton
South African writer
Es’kia Mphahlele
South African writer
Abrahams, Peter
Peter Abrahams
South African-born author
Jeanette Winterson
British author
André Philippus Brink
André Philippus Brink
South African author
Jordan Kush Ngubane
South African writer
Len Deighton
English writer
Alex La Guma
South African writer
Herman Charles Bosman
South African author
Schreiner, Olive
Olive Schreiner
South African writer

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