Biography
EARLY LIFE
Darrel Bristow-Bovey was born on April 6, 1971, in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa. He studied under J. M. Coetzee and André Brink at the University of Cape Town.
CAREER
He is a South African columnist, travel writer, screenwriter, and author. He has written newspaper columns for the Cape Times, Business Day, and The Sunday Independent. His published works include 'I Moved Your Cheese', '“But I Digress …”: A selection of his best columns', 'The Naked Bachelor', 'SuperZero', 'One Midlife Crisis and a Speedo', and 'Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End'. He also wrote a crime series 'White Lies' that premiered on M-Net in South Africa.
PERSONAL LIFE
In 2015, he was living in the Cape Town suburb of Sea Point. More recently, he has mentioned being in Lisbon and travelling with his partner Jo.
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