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- 1906- . South African writer, whose books,
- many of them autobiographical, reflect his
- openness to diverse cultures and his belief
- in the importance of intuition, individualism
- and myth in human experience. A formative
- influence was his time spent with the San
- Bushmen of the Kalahari while growing up, and
- whose disappearing culture he recorded in The
- Lost World of the Kalahari 1958, The Heart of
- the Hunter 1961, and Testament to the Bushmen
- 1984. His first novel In a Province 1934 was
- an indictment of racism in South Africa;
- later works include Flamingo Feather 1955,
- The Hunter and the Whale 1967, A Story like
- the Wind 1972, and A Far-off Place 1974. He
- wrote about Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in
- The Seed and the Sower 1963. He was knighted
- in 1980.
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