Beverley Harper (1941 – 9 August 2002) was an Australian author of novels set on the African continent.
Born in
Bulli, New South Wales
Bulli ( ) is a northern suburb of Wollongong situated on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
History
Bulli is possibly derived from an Aboriginal word signifying "double or two mountains" referring to Mount Kembla and Mount Keira ...
in 1941, Harper visited Africa in 1967. Although she meant to stay for only one year, she lived there until 1988, when she returned to Australia.
Most of her novels were translated into German and published by
Bastei Lübbe
Bastei Lübbe is a major publisher of genre fiction, pulp fiction and non-fiction in the German language. It is based in Cologne, Germany. In 2010, it was the largest independent book publisher in Germany, and it claimed to be one of the three la ...
. Her final novel, ''Footprints of Lion'', was completed by her husband after her death from cancer in 2002. Her ashes lie on the banks of the
Boteti River
The Boteti River (also Botletle RiverHelgren, David M. (1984) "Historical Geomorphology and Geoarchaeology in the Southwestern Makgadikgadi Basin, Botswana" ''Annals of the Association of American Geographers'' 74(2): pp. 298–307, page 298 in
Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the sou ...
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Works
Novels
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German translations
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Short stories
* "Unclaimed Melody" in
* "Festival of Lights" in
* "Who Wins, Dared" in
References
1941 births
2002 deaths
Australian women novelists
Australian women short story writers
20th-century Australian women writers
20th-century Australian writers
21st-century Australian women writers
21st-century Australian writers
Deaths from cancer
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