Darrel Bristow-Bovey

Darrel Bristow-Bovey (6 April 1971, Durban) is a South African columnist, travel writer, screenwriter and author. He studied under J.M. Coetzee and Andre Brink at the University of Cape Town.[1] He later had success as a nationally syndicated columnist with his columns appearing in the Cape Times, Business Day and The Sunday Independent.[2] He endured a public scandal over plagiarism allegations but later wrote a comeback column for The Times print version, an offshoot of the Sunday Times in South Africa until 2021.[3][2]

Darrel Bristow-Bovey
Born
Darrel Bristow-Bovey

(1971-04-06)6 April 1971
Durban, Natal, Republic of South Africa.
Occupations
  • Columnist
  • author

He lives in the Cape Town seaside suburb of Sea Point.[4]

Bibliography
  • I Moved Your Cheese (New Holland Publishers, 2001) ISBN 1843301652
  • “But I Digress …”: A selection of his best columns (Zebra Press, 2003)
  • The Naked Bachelor (Struik Publishers, 2003) ISBN 1868723631
  • SuperZero (Tafelberg, 2006)
  • One Midlife Crisis and a Speedo (Zebra Press, 2014)
  • Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End (Icon Books, 2023)

References
  1. Darrel Bristow Bovey Cliff Central. 19 July 2023
  2. Plagiarism rows rock newspapers The Guardian. 23 September 2003
  3. Darrel Bristow-Bovey in the Hot Seat on AmaBookaBooka: The First in a Series of Literary Podcasts TimesLive. 4 September 2015
  4. Sea Point: The least Capetonian suburb in Cape Town News24. 4 September 2015
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