William Plomer

William Charles Franklyn Plomer (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 was Ian Fleming's editor on several of his James Bond novels of the 1950s and 60s.

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1903 - 1973 - South Africa - United Kingdom - Ian Fleming - James Bond - 1950s - 60s

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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 satirical magazine Voorslagl ("Whiplash") with two other South African rebels Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post; it promoted a racially equal South Africa.

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Roy Campbell - Laurens van der Post

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He spent a period in Japan, where he was friendly with Sherard Vines. There, according to biographers, he was in a homosexual relationship with a Japanese man. He was never openly homosexual, during his whole lifetime, at most alluding to the subject.

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Japan - Sherard Vines - Homosexual

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He then moved to England and, through his friendship with his publisher Virginia Woolf, entered the London literary circles there. He became an important literary editor, for Faber and Faber. He was active as a librettist, with Gloriana, Curlew River and The Prodigal Son for Benjamin Britten.

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Virginia Woolf - Faber and Faber - Librettist - Benjamin Britten

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