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| − | + | He served in the British Army during the First World War, until he was gassed in the Somme in 1916, while his journalistic career took him to India, Burma, Malaya, China and South Africa over the years, where he covered uprisings and rebellions for his newspapers. Having returned to Britain he became a fiction writer. | |
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==Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance== | ==Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance== | ||
Revision as of 07:31, 22 March 2023
William James Makin ((1893-1944) was a journalist, adventurer, playwright and author of popular adventure fiction.
Sometimes referred to as William Makin.
Biography
He served in the British Army during the First World War, until he was gassed in the Somme in 1916, while his journalistic career took him to India, Burma, Malaya, China and South Africa over the years, where he covered uprisings and rebellions for his newspapers. Having returned to Britain he became a fiction writer.
He passed away in 1944.
Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance
Wrote the one-act play O.H.M.S., which won the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society's one-act play competition in 1929, and was performed by them that year. The text published in The Cape Argus (4 May, 1929).
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