biography
| name: |
Plomer, William (Charles Franklyn)
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pronunciation:
[pluhmer]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1903–73)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Pietersburg, N South Africa. He studied at Rugby, farmed and traded in South Africa, and with Laurens van der Post and Roy Campbell started the magazine, Voorslag (‘Whiplash’), which attacked racism in South Africa. The magazine was soon silenced, and he left the country. He lived in Greece and Japan before returning to England, where during World War 2 he served at the Admiralty. A senior editor with Jonathan Cape, his own works include the novels Turbott Wolfe (1926), Sado (1931), and Ali the Lion (1936), collections of short stories I Speak of Africa (1928) and Paper Houses (1929), and Collected Poems (1960). |
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