Ann Harries

Background

Ann Harries was born on August 1, 1942 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Education

It is unknown, where Ann Harries received her education.

Career

South Africa-born novelist Ann Harries has written two novels that take place in her native land and are based on turbulent historical events. Harries published her debut novel, The Sound of the Gora, in 1980. Using two story lines, Harries incorporates two of South Africa’s most dramatic events: the beginning of the imperialist era in 1800 and the children’s riots of 1976.

It was nearly twenty years before Harries published her follow-up novel, Manly Pursuits (1999), which is set in Cape Town and Oxford just before the Boer War. Both works were widely lauded by literary critics.

Achievements

• Ann Harries is best known as the author of the acclaimed Manly Pursuits. Her books were praised by literary critics.

Works

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  • No Place For a Lady

    (The Boer War is razing South Africa to the ground. In the...)

    2005
  • Manly Pursuits

    (Cape Town, 1899. Diamond tycoon Cecil Rhodes believes tha...)

    1999
  • Sound of the Gora 1980
  • The Child Is Not Dead: Youth Resistance in South Africa, 1976-1986 1986

Views

Ann Harries runs an education charity for disadvantaged black students in Cape Town. She has always shown an interest in the condition of South Africa’s children, both black and white. Because she taught at various "non-white" schools, Harries was able to understand the plight and prejudice facing the country’s black children.

Connections

Ann Harries is divorced and has a daughter, Sophie Brown.

Daughter:

Sophie Brown

References

• Contemporary Authors
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