William Plomer

William Plomer was born on 10 December 1903 in Pietersburg, in the Transvaal, and was educated largely in England, notably at Rugby. Back in South Africa, he worked with his parents at a trading store in Zululand. In 1926 he founded, with Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post, a magazine that attacked the racism of the country, then left to teach English in Japan, where he remained until 1929. Settled in England, he was from 1937 a reader and literary adviser at Jonathan Cape, wrote an opera libretto for Benjamin Britten as well as those of three church parables, and died in September 1973.

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• NovelTurbott WolfeWilliam Plomer · 1925Literature