Border novelby Delius

anthony delius jump to navigation jump to search anthony delius (1916 1989) was a south african journalist, political commentator, poet, author and playwright contents 1 biography 2 contribution to s a theatre, film, media and or performance 3 awards, etc 4 sources 5 return to biography he was born anthony ronald st martin delius at simonstown at the end of the first world war and was educated at st aidan's college and rhodes university in grahamstown married to tina and the couple had two children having finished his studies, he became a reporter in port elizabeth in 1940 he joined the south african military intelligence for the duration of the war after his return he returned to journalism, helping to found the evening post in port elizabeth, before joining the cape times in cape town besides travelling widely as a reporter in africa, as well as the u s a and europe, he also lectured in african government at the university of cape town he was a highly regarded political commentator and strongly opposed to the nationalist government, which led to numerous clashes withy the government, especially in his period as parliamentary reporter besides his work with the cape times, he also wrote as correspondent for several international papers, including the new york reporter, the manchester guardian, the b b c and the washington post in 1967, with the pressure mounting, he left south africa to settle in the u k, working full time for the b b c, though still continuing with a column in the cape times for many years his writing includes a number of books of poetry and prose, e g the last division (1959), the day natal took off: a satire (1963), border: a novel (1976), the young traveller in south africa (1949), the paperbook of south african english poetry (1984) upsurge in africa (1960),