Margie Orford is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her Clare Hart novels have been widely translated and explore violence and its effects on women. She has written a number of children’s books and several works of nonfiction, and is also an award-winning journalist who writes regularly for newspapers in the UK and in South Africa. Orford was a member of the executive board of PEN International and president emerita of PEN South Africa. Her latest novel is The Eye of the Beholder, and she released her memoir, Love and Fury in 2024.
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