Dorian Haarhoff

{{short description|South African-Namibian writer and poet (born 1944)}}

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Dorian Haarhoff (born 1944) is a South African-Namibian writer and poet. Haarhoff was born in 1944 in Kimberley, Northern Cape, then part of the Cape Province. He is a naturalized citizen of Namibia.[http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/images/pa/PA2004/poets/haarhoff.htm Poetry Africa 2004] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060510064023/http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/images/pa/PA2004/poets/haarhoff.htm |date=May 10, 2006 }} He wrote his first poem in 1955 and has been published in numerous books. He was also a professor of English at the University of Namibia.[http://www.festivaldepoesiademedellin.org/pub.php/en/Revista/ultimas_ediciones/71_72/haarhoff.html International Poetry Festival of Medellin profile] As of 2004, he worked in the creative writing department at the University of Cape Town.[http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/images/pa/PA2004/poets/haarhoff.htm Poetry Africa 2004] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060510064023/http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/images/pa/PA2004/poets/haarhoff.htm |date=May 10, 2006 }}