Margie Orford, an award-winning journalist and internationally acclaimed writer, is the author of the Clare Hart series as well as several children’s books and works of non-fiction. Her novels have been translated into nine languages. She was born in London and grew up in Namibia. A Fulbright Scholar, she was educated in South Africa and the United States. She is president of South African PEN, the patron of Rape Crisis and of the children’s book charity, The Little Hands Trust. She lives in Cape Town.
Margie Orford
Articles by Margie Orford
Monday February 9
André Brink, We Bid You Farewell
A prolific and versatile writer, André Brink (1935–2015) has shaped the course of South African literature for more than fifty years.
Thursday February 20
Surveillance in South Africa: a Grievous Bodily Harm
In truth, South African literature has flourished post-apartheid, producing a range of new voices and genre literature for the first time, although the identity of our literature as a ‘national one’ is hard to define (perhaps that is no longer possible anywhere in a globalized world).
Friday November 4
Free Expression in RSA: A Conversation with South African PEN’s Margie Orford
South Africa ended a civil war not through a fight to the death, but rather by saying we’ll just stop fighting and have a braii (barbecue) together and be nice.