Darrel Bristow-Bovey (6 April 1971, Durban) is a South African columnist, travel writer, screenwriter and author. He studied under J.M. Coetzee and Andre Brink at the University of Cape Town. He later had success as a nationally syndicated columnist with his columns appearing in the Cape Times, Business Day and The Sunday Independent. He endured a public scandal over plagiarism allegations but later wrote a comeback column for The Times print version, an offshoot of the Sunday Times in South Africa until 2021.
He lives in the Cape Town seaside suburb of Sea Point.
Bibliography
I Moved Your Cheese (New Holland Publishers, 2001) “But I Digress …”: A selection of his best columns (Zebra Press, 2003) The Naked Bachelor (Struik Publishers, 2003) SuperZero (Tafelberg, 2006) One Midlife Crisis and a Speedo (Zebra Press, 2014) Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End (Icon Books, 2023)