William Charles Franklyn Plomer C.B.E. (he pronounced the surname as ploomer) (1903–1973) was a South African author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor. He was educated mostly in the United Kingdom. Plomer edited several of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels in the 1950s and 60s. He became famous in South Africa with his first novel, Turbott Wolfe, which had inter-racial love and marriage as a theme.

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  • William Charles Franklyn Plomer C.B.E. (he pronounced the surname as ploomer) (1903–1973) was a South African author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor. He was educated mostly in the United Kingdom. Plomer edited several of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels in the 1950s and 60s. He became famous in South Africa with his first novel, Turbott Wolfe, which had inter-racial love and marriage as a theme. He was co-editor of the short-lived literary magazine Voorslag ("Whiplash") with two other South African rebels, Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post; it promoted a racially equal South Africa. He spent a period in Japan in the late 1920s, where he was friendly with Sherard Vines. There, according to biographers, he was in a same-sex relationship with a Japanese man. He was never openly gay during his lifetime; at most he alluded to the subject. He then moved to England, and through his friendship with his publisher Virginia Woolf, entered the London literary circles. He became an important literary editor, for Faber and Faber, and was a literary adviser to Jonathan Cape. He was active as a librettist, with Gloriana, Curlew River, The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son for Benjamin Britten.
  • William Plomer war ein südafrikanisch-englischer Schriftsteller.
  • William Charles Franklyn Plomer, né le 10 décembre 1903 à Pietersburg en Afrique du Sud et décédé le 21 septembre 1973 à Lewes dans l'East Sussex, était un écrivain sud-africain, poète, romancier, librettiste et éditeur. Il prononçait son patronyme Ploomer.
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  • William Charles Franklyn Plomer C.B.E. (he pronounced the surname as ploomer) (1903–1973) was a South African author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor. He was educated mostly in the United Kingdom. Plomer edited several of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels in the 1950s and 60s. He became famous in South Africa with his first novel, Turbott Wolfe, which had inter-racial love and marriage as a theme.
  • William Plomer war ein südafrikanisch-englischer Schriftsteller.
  • William Charles Franklyn Plomer, né le 10 décembre 1903 à Pietersburg en Afrique du Sud et décédé le 21 septembre 1973 à Lewes dans l'East Sussex, était un écrivain sud-africain, poète, romancier, librettiste et éditeur. Il prononçait son patronyme Ploomer.
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  • William Plomer
  • William Plomer
  • William Plomer
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