Margie Orford
MARGIE ORFORD is an internationally
acclaimed writer and an awardwinning
journalist. Her most recent
novel is The Eye of the Beholder.
Her Clare Hart novels have been
widely translated and led to her
being described as the ‘queen of
South African crime-thriller writers’
(The Weekender).
She has a PhD in creative writing,
has written many children’s books as
well as nonfiction on climate change
and human rights. She was the
patron of Rape Crisis, is president
emerita of PEN South Africa and was
an executive board member of PEN
International.
She has lived in Namibia and
South Africa but now lives in London.
