{{short description|South African-Namibian writer and poet (born 1944)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Dorian Haarhoff''' (born 1944) is a South African-Namibian writer and poet. Haarhoff was born in Kimberley, Northern Cape, then part of the Cape Province. He is a naturalized citizen of Namibia.<ref>[http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/images/pa/PA2004/poets/haarhoff.htm Poetry Africa 2004] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060510064023/http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/images/pa/PA2004/poets/haarhoff.htm |date=May 10, 2006 }}</ref> He wrote his first poem in 1955 and has been published in numerous books. He was also a professor of English at the University of Namibia.<ref>[http://www.festivaldepoesiademedellin.org/pub.php/en/Revista/ultimas_ediciones/71_72/haarhoff.html International Poetry Festival of Medellin profile]</ref> As of 2004, he worked in the creative writing department at the University of Cape Town.<ref>[http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/images/pa/PA2004/poets/haarhoff.htm Poetry Africa 2004] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060510064023/http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/images/pa/PA2004/poets/haarhoff.htm |date=May 10, 2006 }}</ref>
==Publications== * "Two Cheers for Socialism: Nadine Gordimer and E. M. Forster," ''English in Africa'', 9:1(1982), 55–64. * "Emeralds, Ex-Gentlemen, ESCOM and ISCOR: Frontier Literature in Namibia Circa 1925," ''English Studies in Africa'' (Johannesburg) 31, no. 1 (1988): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398808690844. * "A Soldier in Namibia: Gustav Frenssen’s Peter Moor’s Journey to Southwest Africa," ''Logos'', Vol. 8:2(1988), 81–83. * "Bondels and Bombs: The Bondelwarts Rebellion in Historical Fiction," ''English Studies in Africa'' (Johannesburg) 32:1(1989), 25–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398908690857. * "Literary Ivory: The Nineteenth-Century Travelogue in Namibia and Victorian Priorities," ''English Academy Review'' 6:1(1989), 42–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/10131758985310071. * ''The Wild South-West: Frontier Myths and Metaphors in Literature Set in Namibia, 1760-1988'' (Witwatersrand University Press, 1991), 262 pages. * '' Desert December'' Illustrated by Leon Vermeulen. (Clarion Books, 1992). * ''Aquifers and Dust'' (Justified Press, 1994). (54 pages) * ''The Inner Eye: Namibian Poetry in Process'' (Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1997). (editor) * ''Goats, Oranges & Skeletons: A Trilogy of Namibian Independence Plays'' (Windhoek: New Namibia Books, 2000), 181 pages. Edited by Terence Zeeman. * Review of: "''Sounding the Depths of Leadership: Seven Character Development Voyages To Foster Authentic Leadership in the Ongoing Present''," ''Leadership'' (London, England) 19:2(2023), 186–90. https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150221148845
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