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William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE (he pronounced the surname as ''ploomer'') (10 December 1903 – 21 September 1973) was a South African and British author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor. He was educated mostly in the United Kingdom, but described himself as an "Anglo-African-Asian". He became famous in the Union of South Africa with his first novel, ''Turbott Wolfe'', which had inter-racial love and marriage as a theme. He was co-founder of the short-lived literary magazine ''Voorslag'' ("Whiplash") with two other South African rebels, Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post; it promoted a racially equal South Africa. He spent the period from October 1926 to March 1929 in Japan, where he was friendly with Sherard Vines. There, according to biographers, he was in a same-sex relationship with a Japanese man. He was never openly gay during his lifetime; at most he alluded to the subject. He then moved to England and, through his friendship with his publisher Virginia Woolf, entered the London literary circles. He became a literary editor for Faber and Faber,〔()〕 and was a reader and literary adviser to Jonathan Cape, where he edited a number of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Fleming dedicated ''Goldfinger'' to Plomer. Plomer is known to have used the pseudonym 'Robert Pagan', notably for some of his poetry. He was also active as a librettist, with ''Gloriana'', ''Curlew River'', ''The Burning Fiery Furnace'' and ''The Prodigal Son'' for Benjamin Britten. ==Works== * 1925. ''Turbott Wolfe'' (novel) * 1927. ''Notes for Poems''. Hogarth Press, London (poetry) * 1927. ''I Speak of Africa'' (short stories) * 1929. ''The Family Tree''. Hogarth, London (poetry) * 1929. ''Paper Houses''. Hogarth, London (short stories) * 1931. ''Sado''. Hogarth, London (novel) * 1932. ''The Case is Altered'' (novel) * 1932. ''The Fivefold Screen'' (poetry) * 1933. ''The Child of Queen Victoria'' (short stories) * 1933. ''Cecil Rhodes'' (biography) * 1934. ''The Invaders'' (novel) * 1936. ''Visiting the Caves''. Cape, London (poetry) * 1936. ''Ali the Lion'' (biography, reissued in 1970 as ''The Diamond of Janina'') * 1937. William Plomer (editor): Haruko Ichikawa: ''A Japanese Lady in Europe''. Cape, London * 1938. ''Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert'' (1870–1879) * 1940. ''Selected Poems.'' Hogarth, London * 1942. ''In a Bombed House, 1941: Elegy in Memory of Anthony Butts'' (poetry) * 1943. ''Double Lives: An Autobiography.'' Cape, London. * 1945. ''The Dorking Thigh and Other Satires'' (poetry) * 1949. ''Four Countries''. Cape, London (short stories) * 1952. ''Museum Pieces'' (novel) * 1955. ''A Shot in the Park'' (poetry, published in U.S. as ''Borderline Ballads'') * 1958. ''At Home: Memoirs''. Cape, London. * 1960. ''Collected Poems''. Cape, London. * 2008. ''on not answering the telephone''. (poetry) * 1960. ''A Choice of Ballads'' (poetry) * 1966. ''Taste and Remember'' (poetry) * 1975. ''The Autobiography of William Plomer''. Cape, London (revision of ''Double Lives'', he died before he could rework ''At Home'') * 1978. ''Electric Delights''. Selected and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis. Cape, London (previously uncollected pieces) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Plomer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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