birth_place nationality language birth_date article_title name occupation
cape town , cape province , south africa south african english 11 may 1942 clive algar
 clive algar novelist
clive algar

clive algar is a south african writer and the author of four novels , journeys to the end of the world -lrb- 2007 -rrb- , flowers in the sand -lrb- 2011 -rrb- , comets -lrb- 2013 -rrb- and the chain of time -lrb- 2015 -rrb- .
his short story `` die tweeling '' appears in the afrikaans anthology `` boereoorlogstories 2 '' -lrb- boer war stories 2 -rrb- published by tafelberg publishers -lrb- 2012 -rrb- , translated from the english original .
algar is a former mining executive who returned to south africa from london when he retired and now lives on his farm in the western cape province .
