By Anon
Angus Stewart (1936-98) was a British writer, best known for his novel Sandel, published in 1968.
In Sandel, 13-year-old chorister Antony Sandel forms a loving relationship with a 19-year-old Oxford University student called David Rogers.
The Times wrote of Sandel “The writing is always intelligent, its sensual quality surprisingly beautiful.”
The Sunday Telegraph wrote: “Mr. Stewart has really succeeded with this young character, and in depicting a love which truly exists and is not despicable.”
Angus Stewart
Reportedly, Sandel was based on real events; Angus Stewart was educated at .
In Angus Stewart’s poetry book Sense and Inconsequence (1972), Stewart names Meti as Hamed Sigidhli.
There are two illustrations by Meti in Sense and Inconsequence.
Meti lived with Stewart for at least six years.
Reportedly, for legal and religious reasons, Stewart restricted his activity with boys to hugging and kissing.
Tangier boy, by Angus Stewart.
In 1979 Stewart returned to England.
For much of his life Stewart suffered from clinical depression.
Discovering Angus Stewart (1936 – 1998) – William A. Percy.
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