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Christopher Hope

South Africa (1944 - )

About Christopher Hope

Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1944 and moved to London in 1975. He is the author of twelve novels including Kruger's Alp, winner of the Whitbread Novel Award, and the Booker short-listed Serenity House. Hope's non-fiction includes a highly praised volume of autobiography, White Boy Running (1988) and a travel book, Moscow! Moscow! (1990), which won a PEN Award.

Novels

Collections

Cape Drives (poems) (1974)
In the Country of the Black Pig: And Other Poems (poems) (1981)
Learning to Fly (1982)
Private Parts: And Other Stories (1982)
English Men (poems) (1985)

Chapbooks

Black Swan (1987)

Anthologies edited

New Writing: Vol 5 (1996) (with Peter Porter)

Non fiction

White Boy Running (1988)
Moscow, Moscow! (1990)
Signs of the Heart: Love and Death in Languedoc (1999)
Brothers Under the Skin: Travels in Tyranny (2003)

Awards

	Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1984) : Kruger's Alp
	The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1992) : Serenity House

Christopher Hope recommends

Oranges from Spain (1999)
David Park
"David Park writes beautifully about growing up in Belfast-of childhoods under God and the gun.Somehow,against all the odds,his stories are gentle,vivid,life affirming."

The Cellist of Sarajevo (2008)
Steven Galloway
"For anyone who saw the Balkan wars close up, The Cellist of Sarajevo rings absolutely true. For anyone who didn't, it will be a revelation."

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