Stuart Cloete

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Edward Fairly Stuart Graham Cloete (born July 23, 1897 in Paris , † March 19, 1976 in Cape Town ) was a South African writer of English descent. His work consists mainly of novels , essays , poems and short stories .

Life

Stuart Cloete, whose family had lived in the Cape since the 17th century , was born in Paris in 1897. He grew up in England and was educated at Lancing College . Then he was a soldier in the First World War and signed up as a volunteer for the Coldstream Guards , where he achieved the rank of lieutenant at the age of 17 . Due to severe war injuries, he had to leave the service. He then lived as a farmer in the Transvaal from 1925 to 1935 . From 1935 Cloete stayed again as a freelance author in England, published short stories, poems and essays in various magazines and settled down during theSecond World War settled in the USA . In 1940 he married Mildred West. From 1963 he lived again in South Africa and died on March 19, 1976 at the age of 78 in Cape Town.

A major part of Cloete's work and his historical novels deals with the problems between Boers and the local population. His first published novel Turning Wheels (1937; dt. Wanderde Wagen , 1938) is part of the Great Trek of the 1830s and was a bestseller and often translated with more than 2 million copies sold.

Works (selection)

  • Turning Wheels , Roman, 1937; German wandering carriages , 1938
  • Watch for the Down , Roman, 1939; German weather lights , 1946
  • Yesterday is Dead , study, 1940
  • The Young Man and the Old , poems, 1941
  • The Hill of Doves , novel, 1941
  • Christmas in Matabeleland , novel, 1942
  • Congo Song , novel, 1943
  • Against these Three , biography, 1945; new edition under the title African Portraits , 1946
  • The Third Way , novel 1946
  • The Curve and the Tusk , Roman, 1953; German African ballad , 1954
  • The African Giant , Roman, 1955
  • Mamba , Roman, 1956, German 1958
  • The Mask , Roman, 1957; German The hunter with the mask , 1964
  • Gazella , Roman, 1958; German 1966
  • The Soldiers' Peaches , Short Stories, 1959
  • The Fiercest Heart , Roman, 1960; German The glowing heart , 1961
  • The Silver Trumpet , Short Stories, 1961; German 1963
  • Rags of Glory , Roman, 1963; German scraps of fame , 1965
  • The 1001 Nights of Jean Macaque , novel, 1965
  • The Abductors , Roman, 1966
  • Three White Swans , Short Stories, 1971
  • A Victorian Son , autobiography, 1972
  • The Company with the Heart of Gold , Short Stories, 1973
  • The Gambler , autobiography, 1973
  • Congo Song , novel, 1974
  • Canary Pie , Short Stories, 1976

literature

  • Cloete, (Edward Fairly) Stuart , in: Gero von Wilpert (Ed.): Lexikon der Weltliteratur , Vol. 1: Authors , Alfred Kröner Verlag, 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-520-80703-3 , p. 308

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personal data
SURNAME Cloete, Stuart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cloete, Edward Fairly Stuart Graham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1976
Place of death Cape Town