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Stephen Gray

スチーブン・グレイ

Stephen Gray

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1941-11-30 (Cape Town, Cape Province, Union of South Africa)
Died
2020-10-22 (Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa) age 78
Nationality
South Africa
Languages
English
Residence History
Cape Town, South Africa → Johannesburg, South Africa

Career

Occupations
Author, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, editor, Professor
Active Years
1960-2020
Affiliations
Rand Afrikaans University
Influenced
Athol Fugard, Herman Charles Bosman

Education

St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown
Literature
Country: South Africa
University of Cape Town
English
Country: South Africa
University of Cambridge
English
Degree: BA, MA
Country: England
Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts in English
University of Iowa
Creative Writing
Degree: MFA
Country: United States
Masters of Fine Arts
Rand Afrikaans University
English
Degree: D.Litt, D.Phil.
Country: South Africa
Until 1992, Professor of English

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Time of Our Darkness

1988 Novel

A novel set in the time of apartheid in South Africa

attitudes to homosexualityrewritings of historyclassrace

Beatrice Hastings: A Literary Life

2004 Biography

Biography of Beatrice Hastings

literary life

Bibliography

  • Local Colour (1975)
  • Visible People (1977)
  • Caltrop's Desire (1980)
  • Time of Our Darkness (1988)
  • Born of Man (1989)
  • War Child (1994)
  • My Serial Killer and other Short Stories (2005)
  • Schreiner: A One-Woman Play (1983)
  • It's About Time (1974)
  • Man’s Gold (1978)
  • Hottentot Venus and other Poems (1979)
  • Love Poems: Hate Poems (1982)
  • Apollo Café and Other Poems, 1982-89 (1989)
  • Season of Violence (1992)
  • Selected Poems 1960-92 (1994)
  • Gabriel's Exhibition (1998)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
prolific poetryliterary journalism
Recurring Motifs
attitudes to homosexualityrewritings of history in South Africaattitudes to class and race

Legacy

South African writer and critic known for his works exploring homosexuality, history, class, and race.

Archives

  • Harry Ransom Center (Stephen Gray Collection)

Trivia

  • Classified as a South African LGBTQ novelist