William Charles Franklyn Plomer Net Worth is $700,000
William Charles Franklyn Plomer Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE (he pronounced the surname as ploomer) (10 December 1903 – 21 September 1973) was a South African and British author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor. He was educated mostly in the United Kingdom, but described himself as an "Anglo-African-Asian".He became famous in the Union of South Africa with his first novel, Turbott Wolfe, which had inter-racial love and marriage as a theme. He was co-founder of the short-lived literary magazine Voorslag ("Whiplash") with two other South African rebels, Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post; it promoted a racially equal South Africa.He spent the period from October 1926 to March 1929 in Japan, where he was friendly with Sherard Vines. There, according to biographers, he was in a same-sex relationship with a Japanese man. He was never openly gay during his lifetime; at most he alluded to the subject.He then moved to England, and through his friendship with his publisher Virginia Woolf, entered the London literary circles. He became a literary editor, for Faber and Faber [1], and was a reader and literary adviser to Jonathan Cape, where he edited a number of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Fleming dedicated Goldfinger to Plomer. He was active as a librettist, with Gloriana, Curlew River, The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son for Benjamin Britten.
South African-born librettist, poet and novelist, resident in Britain from 1929. He collaborated with Benjamin Britten on the rather scandalous "Gloriana" (1953) as a coronation tribute to Queen Elizabeth II. At one time he planned a children's opera about space travel.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Gloriana
2000
TV Movie libretto
Gloriana
1984
TV Movie libretto
The Butterfly Ball
1977
words by: based on the book "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast"
$700,000
