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I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.

~Bryce Courtenay

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Novelist

Born: August 14th, 1933

Died: November 22nd, 2012

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