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Biography Edward Fairly Stuart Graham Cloete, South African novelist, essayist, biographer and short story writer, was born on July 23, 1897, in Paris, France to a French mother and South African father. He lived most of his adult life in the town of Hermanus, in the Western Cape. He published his first novel, Turning Wheels, in 1937, which became a best-seller, selling more than two-million copies. Importation of the book was subsequently banned in South Africa, owing to its commentary on the Great Trek, the event in which the book is set. Cliffs with whale watchers seen from the old harbour. ...
Capital Cape Town Largest city Cape Town Premier Ebrahim Rasool Area - Total Ranked 4th 129,370 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 5th 4,524,335 35/km² Languages Afrikaans (55. ...
Trekboers on the Karoo. ...
Many of his 14 novels and most of his short stories are historically based fictional adventures, set against the backdrop of major African, and, in particular, South African historical events. Apart from Turning Wheels, another prominent novel, 1963's Rags of Glory, is set during the Anglo-Boer war (with, according to its forward, much of the historical information based on Rayne Kruger's Goodbye Dolly Gray.) Two of his novels were made in to movies: The Fiercest Heart, 1961 is based on his novel of the same name, published in 1955. Majuba, released in 1968, is based on The Hill of the Doves, his novel of 1941. The skirmish at Majuba Hill (near Volksrust, South Africa) on 27 February 1881 was a convincing victory for the Boers. ...
His short stories are also much-acclaimed. He published at least eight volumes [his biography says eight, but I have more! asb. help here] in his lifetime.
Other written media to which he contributed includes poetry, collected in a volume published in 1941, The Young Men and the Old; biographies (African Portraits, 1946).
He published the first part of his autobiography, A Victorian Son, in 1972 and the second, the Gambler, in 1973. Stuart Cloete died on March 19, 1976, in Cape Town, South Africa. , City motto: Spes Bona (Latin: Good Hope) Location of the City of Cape Town in Western Cape Province Province Western Cape Mayor Helen Zille Area - % water 2,499 km² N/A Population - Total (2004) - Density Ranked 100th 2,893,251 1,158/km² Established 1652 Time zone SAST (UTC+2...
Works
Novels - Turning Wheels, 1937
- Watch for the Dawn, 1939
- Yesterday is dead, 1940
- The hill of doves, 1941
- The young men and the old, 1941
- Congo song, 1943
- The curve and the tusk, 1952
- The fiercest heart, 1955
- Mamba, 1956
- The mask, 1957
- Gazella, 1958
- Rags of Glory, 1963
- The abductors, 1966
- How young they die, 1969
Short story collections - Christmas in Matabeleland, 1942
- The third way, 1947
- The soldiers' peaches, and other African stories, 1959
- The silver trumpet, and other African stories, 1961
- The looking glass, and other African stories, 1963
- The thousand and one nights of Jean Macaque, 1964
- The honey bird, and other African stories, 1964
- The writing on the wall, and other African stories, 1968
- Three white swans; and other stories, 1971
- The company with the heart of gold, and other stories, 1973
- More nights of Jean Macaque, 1975
- Canary pie, 1976
Non-fiction - African portraits: a biography of Paul Kruger, Cecil Rhodes and Lobengula, last King of the Matabele, 1946
- Against these three, 1947
- The African giant: the story of a journey, 1955
- Storm over Africa: a study of the Mau Mau Rebellion, its causes, effects, and implications in Africa south of the *Sahara, 1956
- West with the sun, 1962
- South Africa: the land, its people and achievements, 1968
- A Victorian son: an autobiography, 1897-1922, 1972
- The gambler: an autobiography volume 2, 1920-1939, 1973
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