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Bloom initially believed that his biological father was his mother's husband, the South African-born anti-apartheid novelist Harry Bloom (1913–1981), who died when Bloom was four years old. However, when he was thirteen, Bloom's mother revealed to him that his biological father was actually Colin Stone, his mother's partner and family friend.
Jul 10, 2003 · Most profiles of Lord Of The Rings star Orlando Bloom identify his father as famed anti-apartheid activist and author Harry Bloom, who died when the actor was just four years old. However, the...
Harry Saul Bloom (1 January 1913—28 July 1981) was a Jewish South African journalist, novelist, and political activist. Born Solomon Harris Bloom, he was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand and subsequently became an advocate in Johannesburg.
Harry Bloom will always be remembered with great esteem in South Africa, particularly for his his work as a lawyer, and barrister, fighting apartheid on the front line by defending blacks in court and on Location, facing danger and government forces, being imprisoned and tortured in political round-ups during Sharpeville at the height of th...
Harry Bloom, a Johannesburg lawyer who left South Africa to go into a self-imposed exile in the late nineteen fifties, is one of the more shadowy. figures of South African literature. Very little has been written about him, probably as a direct result of his most important work, Transvaal Episode, l.
Harry Bloom's novel, Transvaal Episode, was originally published in 1955. under the title Episode in the Transvaal, and, under a second title, Episode, was the British Authors' Club Award for best first novel of 1956. It was.
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Sep 1, 1982 · The 'episode' in this novel is a race riot that is ignited in a South African town after a black washerwoman is accused of stealing a collar from a white family's laundry and her husband is accidentally shot by a nervous white policeman while protesting her arrest. A gripping and illuminating work.
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