Christopher Hope

Writer

Christopher is a South African novelist and poet. His novels include A Separate Development, banned by the old Apartheid censors, and Kruger’s Alp, winner of the Whitbread Prize. Among his awards are the Thomas Pringle Prize and the PEN Silver Pen Award. In 1992 Serenity House was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is the founder of the Franschhoek Literary Festival and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in France.