Darrel bristow bovey biography of martin henderson

Darrel Bristow-Bovey was born in Durban, South Africa and educated at the University of Cape Town where he studied under J.M. Coetzee and Andre Brink.

Darrel bristow bovey biography of martin Coetzee and Andre Brink. A life-long fascination with Sir Ernest Shackleton sparked by his father's memorable story-telling, lead Bristow-Bovey to pen 'Finding Endurance: Shackleton, my father and a world without end' which is released in paperback in March He told me about the cold and the dark, frozen into the Weddell Sea through that long sunless polar winter, and he gave me careful instructions to always remove the fat from seal steak before cooking to prevent it tasting of fish. He told me what it felt like to stand on the sea-ice at the end of the world, as far away as any human had ever been or ever would be again until Apollo 11 went to the moon, and watch your ship sink and disappear. He described the low-angled summer sun making prisms and rainbows through pressure-ridges of ice, and the purple shadows and the pink bergs and how the sea between the floes was like the gold seams of Japanese kintsugi.

He currently divides his time between South Africa, the UK and a hillside on the Greek Peloponnese.

He is a screenwriter, represented by Abram Nalibotsky at the Gersh Agency, Beverly Hills. He has an original drama series &#; whose name he is not yet allowed to mention &#; in pre-development with an international production company.

Dark Hearts, a crime series in co-production with Quizzical Pictures and ZDFE (Germany) is in pre-production and will start to shoot in early His latest book, Finding Endurance, will be published in the UK, the USA and Europe in April , and in South Africa in June

Feature films include: A Sunday Affair (Netflix, ), Inside Story () for Discovery Channel, Nothing for Mahala () and Score () .

Television credits include The Lab series 1 and 2, Hard Copy series 2 and 3, iNumberNumber, Hopeville, Rhythm City and Scandal, and the forthcoming The Secrets of Baba Segi&#;s Wives for Netflix. White Lies, starring Natalie Dormer, for Fremantle and Quizzical Pictures is currently in production.

He is a travel writer and a newspaper and magazine columnist and has written five books which have been translated into seven languages: I Moved Your Cheese () and The Naked Bachelor () were books of humour and But I Digress (), was a collection of his best columns between and

Finding Endurance (Icon Books) was published in the UK in April and will be released in South Africa and global territories in July

SuperZero () won a Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature and the Percy Fitzpatrick Prize for South African Literature.

One Midlife Crisis and a Speedo () was a humorous account of his attempt to swim across the Dardenelles in the wake of Lord Byron.

In his play Priest With Balloons won the Scribe Playwriting Competition, and will premiere in

In he co-wrote The Power Struggle, a one-man showcase for stand-up comic Nik Rabinowitz.

In he was a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Literature for his short story “A Joburg Story”.