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Guy Butler (1918–2001)

Author of Karoo Morning : an Autobiography, 1918-1935

24 Works 111 Members 2 Reviews

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Guy Butler Autobiography

Works by Guy Butler

Karoo Morning : an Autobiography, 1918-1935 (1977) 23 copies

Bursting World: An Autobiography: 1936-45 (1983) 14 copies

Tales from the old Karoo (1989) 13 copies, 1 review

The 1820 settlers : an illustrated commentary (1974) 8 copies

A Local Habitation: 1945-90: Autobiography (1991) 6 copies

The prophetic nun : Sister Margaret CR, Sister Pauline CR, Sister Dorothy Raphael CSMV (2000) 6 copies

Balls of Leather and Steel (2011) 5 copies, 1 review

Guy Butler (1994) 4 copies

When boys were men (1969) 3 copies

Selected poems (1975) 3 copies

Collected poems (1999) 3 copies

South African Landshapes, Landscapes, Manscapes (1990) 3 copies

A book of South African verse (1959) 3 copies

Pilgrimage to Dias Cross: A Narrative Poem By.... (1987) 3 copies

Out of the African Ark (1988) 3 copies

A New book of South African verse in English (1979) 2 copies

A Book of South African Verse. (1959) 2 copies

A rackety colt: The adventures of Thomas Stubbs (1989) 1 copy

Richard Gush of Salem (1982) 1 copy

Take root or die 1 copy

Mantis Poets: Guy Butler / Patrick Cullinan (Mantis Poets) (1998) 1 copy

Rules for Dating a Married Man: How to Be a Good Mistress ~ An Essential Guide for Having an Affair With a Married Man (2015) 1 copy

THE DAM: A play in three acts 1 copy

STRANGER TO EUROPE: Poems 1939-1949 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Butler, Frederick Guy
Birthdate: 1918-01-21
Date of death: 2001-04-26
Gender: male
Education: Rhodes University, Grahamstown
Brasenose College, Oxford
Organizations: President of the English Academy of Southern Africa
Nationality: South Africa
Birthplace: Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Places of residence: Johannesburg, South Africa
Grahamstown, South Africa
Place of death: Grahamstown, South Africa
Associated Place (for map): South Africa

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Stanslong 65 reviews

Tales from the old Karoo by Guy Butler

Suspect quite a bit of fiction involved

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rglossne 385 reviews

Balls of Leather and Steel by Guy Butler

Not read, abandoned.

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Central News Agency Literary Award

Selected poems (Winner – 1975)

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Works: 24
Members: 111
Popularity: #175,483
Rating: ½ 3.6

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 26

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