Blake Friedmann

Margie Orford

Agent: Isobel Dixon Photo: Brooke Fasani
Brooke Fasani

Biography

Margie Orford is the author of the Clare Hart series, now translated into nine languages. She is an award-winning journalist, photographer, film director, children's author and Fulbright scholar. Born in London, she grew up in southern Africa. She was detained as a student activist during the State of Emergency in 1985 and wrote her finals in prison. After travelling widely, she  worked in publishing in Namibia. While in New York, she worked on the groundbreaking archival retrieval project, WOMEN WRITING AFRICA.  Her latest non-fiction project is FABULOUSLY 40 AND BEYOND; Women Coming Into Their Own (Spearhead/NAB, 2006). She compiled 15 MEN: WORDS AND IMAGES FROM BEHIND BARS (Jonathan Ball 2008). This is a collection of writing by men with whom she conducted a nine-month creative writing workshop in Groot Drakenstein Prison (formerly Victor Verster) from 2007 and 2008. She is the patron of Rape Crisis and of the Little Hands Trust.

 

'Orford [is] top of the class of crime writing in South Africa. This is largely due to her ability to write with a sense of true humanity and yet maintain a pacy sexy style.' -- Jennifer Crocker, Cape Times

 

'Margie Orford is to Cape Town what Val McDermid is to the north of England, capturing the seamier side of the Mother City: drugs, prostitution, gangs, police corruption and the clash between policing and political correctness.' -- Anthony Egan, Mail & Guardian


 

 

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