South Africa
J. M. Coetzee was born in South Africa of Boer and English descent. In the 1960s he moved to England working as a computer programmer before studying literature in the United States. He was awarded a...
Daniel Krige was born in South Africa and grew up in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. He left school at fifteen and wrote the draft of what was to become his first feature film, West, the...
Peter Temple has worked in several countries as a journalist and editor. He moved to Australia in 1980 and settled in Sydney, before moving to Melbourne to edit the journal Australian Society. He has...
Margaret Wild was born in Eshowe, a country town in South Africa. Her father was a bank manager and Wild's early life was spent frequently moving around; however, she spent a lot of time in...
