Christopher Hope

Christopher Hope ( born February 26, 1944 in Johannesburg) is a South African writer and poet whose works deal with racism and politics in South Africa.

Life

Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of Dudley and Kathleen Mitford Margaret Hope. As White he put the preferential treatment of whites in South Africa in question. This attitude has led the way for his most famous writings. Hope attended the universities of the Witwatersrand and Natal. He served in 1962 in the South African Navy. Hope married on February 18, 1967 Eleanor Marilyn Margarete Klein. However, the couple was soon divorced. After Hope had worked briefly as a journalist, he went to a " self-imposed " exile to London. His autobiographical piece White Boy Running is a chronicle of this period of life.

Hope's poems were first published in 1971. His first novel was published in 1981 and was banned in South Africa because of his outspoken criticism of the apartheid government. Hope's second novel, Kruger's Alp, was considered as a huge contrast to his first work. Kruger's Alp has been described by the New York Times Book Review as "a novel in the form of a dream ." Despite the distance from the style of earlier writings Hopes the book received a lot of critical acclaim.

Works

  • Whitewashes, 1970
  • Cape Drives, 1974
  • A Separate Development, 1977
  • In the Country of the Black Pig, 1981
  • Kruger's Alp, 1985
  • The Hottentot Room, 1986
  • Black Swan, 1987
  • White Boy Running 1988
  • My Chocolate Redeemer, 1989
  • Moscow! Moscow! , 1990
  • Serenity House, 1992
  • The Love Songs of Nathan J. Swirsky, 1993
  • Darkest England, 1996
  • Me, the Moon and Elvis Presley, 1997
  • Signs of the Heart: Love and Death in Languedoc, 1999
  • Heaven Forbid, 2001
  • Brothers Under the Skin: Travels in Tyranny, 2003
  • My Mother's Lovers, 2007
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