Margie Orford is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her Clare Hart novels – a literary crime fiction series that explores violence and its effects in South Africa – are published in the USA and the UK and have been widely translated into more than ten languages. They include Like Clockwork (2006), Blood Rose (2006), Gallows Hill (2009), Daddy's Girl (2011), and Water Music (2013). They have led to her being described by The Weekender as the ‘queen of South African crime-thriller writers.’

Her most recent novel, The Eye of the Beholder, was published in 2022 and her next novel, Common Purpose, will be out in 2025.

Margie's memoir Love and Fury was published by Jonathan Ball Publishers 2024.

Margie is an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. She was a Community Fellow at IASH, University of Edinburgh in 2020 and 2021. She was the John Tilney Writer in Residence at the University of York in 2015 and is a Civitella Ranieri Fellow and a Fulbright scholar. She is an Ambassador for PEN International and on the Advisory Board of the Johannesburg Review of Books.

Margie also holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.

Read Margie's essay 'Harmflesh' in Granta here