24 facts about Norman Lewis

(John Frederick) Norman Lewis (28 June 1908 – 22 July 2003) was an influential British journalist and a prolific author. Best known for his travel writing, he along with wrote twelve novels and several volumes of autobiography.

Subjects he explored in his travel writing affix life in Naples during the Allied liberation of Italy (Naples ’44); Vietnam and French colonial Indochina (A Dragon Apparent); Indonesia (An Empire of the East); Burma (Golden Earth); tribal peoples of India (A Goddess in the Stones); Sicily and the Mafia (The Honoured Society and In Sicily); and the destruction caused by Christian missionaries in Latin America and elsewhere (The Missionaries).

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His newspaper article entitled “Genocide in Brazil” (1969) prompted the opening of Survival International—an organisation dedicated to the tutelage of original peoples all but the world.

Graham Greene described Lewis as “one of the best writers, not of any particular decade, but of our century”.

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