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Ronald Harold Hardy was an English novelist and screenwriter. His first novel
The Place of Jackals was published in 1954 to general acclaim. Hardy drew on his experiences as a liaison officer in Indochina during
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in the writing of this novel. A review in
Time magazine claimed that the novel
"establishes him as Graham Greene's No. 1 disciple."
Hardy won the 1962
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for his fifth novel
Act of Destruction. Besides his seven works of fiction, he wrote one non-fiction book about the construction of the
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entitled
The Iron SnakeThe Iron Snake is an ancient tribal prophecy attributed to both the Maasai and Kĩkũyũ tribes in Kenya in which a railway is described as an iron snake.The iron snake would someday cross their land and would be a bad omen creating trouble as it went....
.
Hardy was also a TV screenwriter, with
Suspense and
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among his credits. He qualified as a
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before turning to writing. He married Joyce Cook and had two children.
Works
- The Place of Jackals, 1954
- A Name Like Herod, 1955
- Kampong, 1957
- The Men from the Bush, 1959
- Act of Destruction, 1962
- The Iron Snake, 1965 (non-fiction)
- Return to Arms, 1967
- The Savages, 1967
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