(1964). A Portrait of Japan; travel (1968). The Night of the New Moon (US title: The Prisoner and the Bomb); wartime memoirs (1970). A Story Like the Wind; novel (1972). A Far-Off Place; novel, sequel to the above (1974). Jung and the Story of Our Time; psychology, memoir (1975). Yet Being Someone Other; memoir, travel (1982). A Walk with A White Bushman; interview-transcripts (1986). The Admiral's Baby; memoir (1996). Movies Film adaptations of his books. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)—based on The Seed and the Sower (1963) and The Night of the New Moon (1970), about his experience as a prisoner of war. It was directed by Nagisa Ōshima and starred David Bowie. A Far Off Place (1993)—based on A Far-Off Place (1974) and A Story Like the Wind (1972). References External links Complete published works by or about LvdP Images of LvdP, from the National Portrait Gallery. 1906 births 1996 deaths People from Kopanong Local Municipality Afrikaner people South African people of Dutch descent 20th-century South African novelists British Army personnel of World War II Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Knights Bachelor Intelligence Corps officers South African conservationists South African expatriates in England South African knights South African male novelists South African memoirists South African prisoners of war South African travel writers World War II prisoners of war held by Japan Alumni of Grey College, Bloemfontein 20th-century memoirists Child sexual abuse in South Africa South African rapists