Laugh the Beloved Country: A Compendium of South African Humour

Laugh the Beloved Country: A Compendium of South African Humour

by JamesClarke (Author), HarveyTyson (Author)

Synopsis

Bring together a French explorer, a Scottish engineer, a New Zealand-born TV presenter, a murderer, a medical writer, an international tennis star, a professor, a judge, an Australian-born farmer, an Afrikaans playwright, a Jewish diamond prospector, a frantic mother, two famous African writers, a variety of white and black novelists, editors and journalists, not forgetting a San/Bushman mother - and something amusing should result. These men and women of different races, different centuries, different cultures (ranging from American-Irish to Zulu), have one distinction in common - each has been identified as among the most entertaining writers of English-language humour in South Africa in the last 200 years.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 318
Publisher: Double Storey
Published: 01 Jun 2004

ISBN 10: 1919930329
ISBN 13: 9781919930329

Media Reviews
Archbishop Tutu Comments: 'I could not stop laughing from the very first moment I started reading this manuscript'.
Author Bio
James Clarke is a travel writer and author. He was assistant editor of The Star and since his retirement continues to write a thrice weekly humour column for the paper. He lives with his wife in Johannesburg. Harvey Tyson was editor-in-chief of The Star. He is the author of a number of books on such subjects as politics, the press and travel. He is a respected literary critic. He lives with his wife in Hermanus.