Hope, Christopher (David Tully) (1944– )

South African writer. After settling in England in 1975, Hope produced a number of satirical novels that attacked the policy of apartheid in South Africa, including A Separate Development (1980) and Kruger's Alp (1984), which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction in 1985. A return visit to South Africa during the whites-only general election of 1987 prompted Hope to write the autobiographical White Boy Running (1988).

Other works include the novels Serenity House (1992) and Me, the Moon, and Elvis Presley (1997); the volumes of poetry Cape Drives (1974) and Englishmen (1985); the short-story collection Private Parts and Other Tales (1981); the travelogue Moscow, Moscow (1990); the autobiographical Signs of the Heart (1999); and stories for children, radio plays, and television dramas.