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Some things have to be believed to be seenRalph Hodgson
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Some things have to be believed in to be seen.Ralph Hodgson
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?Ralph Hodgson
4 Quotes & Sayings By Ralph Hodgson
Ralph Hodgson was born in South Africa in 1913. He studied at the University of Cape Town, obtaining a Master of Arts degree in English. He also obtained a Diploma of Education from the University of London. He became a journalist, working during his early career for the Rand Daily Mail and the Cape Times
Hodgson's first book, The Desert of the Heart (1954), won him the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction, and he also received the Guardian of Africa Award for "excellence in the field of literature". Hodgson served on UNESCO's Advisory Committee on World Cultural Heritage from 1965 to 1969. During this time he wrote his autobiography, Myself I Was Born, which was published in 1972. His second book was Harry's Game (1979), an account of the life and death of Harry Somers, who was executed in Cape Town for his part in a bank robbery in 1951.
Hodgson himself spent time in prison after he wrote The King Must Die (1971) about King Frederik Hendrik and his life and death. His third book was The Memory Book (1978). Hodgson died in Johannesburg on 22 December 1991.