Author Profile
MARGIE ORFORD
 MARGIE
ORFORD is a journalist, film director and author of children's fiction,
non-fiction and school text books.
She was born in London and grew up in Namibia and South Africa,
studying at UCT where she wrote her final exams in prison while
detained during the State of Emergency. After travelling widely,
she did an honours degree at UCT, then worked in publishing in the
newly-independent Namibia, where she became involved in training
through the African Publishers Network.
In 1999 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and while in New
York, worked on an archival retrieval project, Women Writing in
Africa: The Southern Volume. She made her crime debut with Like Clockwork, which became a
bestseller and is soon to be followed by a sequel, Blood Rose. Both crime novels
will be published in Germany. Her latest non-fiction project is Fabulously 40 and Beyond : Women coming
into their own.
Margie is the author of several children's books, the first published by Heinemann in 1996.
These are in English and have been translated into French, Portuguese, Xhosa and Afrikaans. She lives in Cape Town with her husband and
three daughters.
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