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ATKV Prose Prize
The ATKV-Prosaprys (AKTV Prose Prize) is a literary award awarded annually by the ATKV to an Afrikaans writer for a work of prose published during the previous calendar year. The prize was first awarded in 1984 to Dalene Matthee for her book Kringe in ’n bos. Previous winners * 2020 – Harry Kalmer for ' * 2019 – Lodewyk G. du Plessis for ' * 2018 – Etienne van Heerden for ' * 2017 – Dan Sleigh for ''1795'' * 2016 – Debbie Loots fir ''Split'' * 2015 – Francois Smith for ''Kamphoer'' * 2014 – Chris Karsten for ' * 2013 – Karin Brynard for ' * 2012 – Dan Sleigh for ' * 2011 – Chris Karsten for ' * 2010 – Eben Venter for ''Santa Gamka'' * 2009 – P.G. du Plessis for ' * 2008 – Chris Karsten for ''Frats'' * 2007 – Marita van der Vyver for ' * 2006 – Etienne van Heerden for ' * 2005 – Etienne van Heerden for ' * 2003 – Marzanne Leroux-Van der Boon for ''Granate bloei in Jerusalem'' (Lux Verbi BM) * 2000 – Berna Ackerman for ' * 1996 – Dale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATKV
The Afrikaans Language and Culture Association (Afrikaans: Afrikaanse Taal- en Kultuurvereniging), ATKV, is a society that aims to promote the Afrikaans language and culture. The association was founded in 1930 in Cape Town. Since its inception and up to the end of Apartheid in 1994, membership was only open to members of the Afrikaner Christian community. Membership was thereafter opened to include people of all ethnicities, sharing the same values as the ATKV (i.e. speaking Afrikaans and belonging to the Christian faith). History The Witwatersrand Gold Rush of 1886 and Anglo Boer War (1899–1902) resulted in an influx of foreigners to the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek. Because the Boer Republics became British colonies right after the Anglo Boer War, the Afrikaners felt marginalised and stigmatised. This culminated in the mass urbanisation of unskilled Afrikaners during the great depression years. Like many British soldiers and immigrants the impoverished Afrikaners found refu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalene Matthee
Dalene Matthee (13 October 1938 – 20 February 2005) was a South African author best known for her four "Forest Novels", written in and around the Knysna Forest. Her books have been translated into fourteen languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Icelandic, and over a million copies have been sold worldwide. Biography She was born Dalena Scott in Riversdale in the then Cape Province in 1938. After graduating from the local high school in 1957, she studied music at a conservatory in Oudtshoorn as well as at the Holy Cross Covent in Graaff-Reinet. Her first book was a children's story, ''Die Twaalfuurstokkie'' (The Twelve-o'-clock Stick), published in 1970. In 1982 a collection of short stories called ''Die Judasbok'' (The Judas Goat) was also published. Before gaining fame and wide acclaim for her first "forest novel", she also wrote stories for magazines as well as two popular novels – n Huis vir Nadia'' (A House for Nadia) ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Kalmer
Harold (Harry) Kalmer (21 November 1956 – 26 July 2019) was a South African novelist, essayist and playwright both in English and his home language Afrikaans. Life and Work Harry Kalmer was born in Bellville as fourth child of Kenneth Kalmer and Johanna Steyn; the family soon moved to Johannesburg where Harry completed his schooling before achieving his B.A. in Afrikaans-Nederlands and Drama at the University of Pretoria. From 1980-81 he was conscripted into the SADF and deployed as a lieutenant in Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...; given the context of Namibian War of Independence, Namibia's war for independence, this was a formative period for some of his later creative work; he came to be classified as one of the ''Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, Tagtiger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etienne Van Heerden
Etienne van Heerden, born 3 December 1954, is a South African author. Biography Van Heerden was born in 1954, six years after the official advent of apartheid. His mother was an English speaking mathematics teacher. His father, an Afrikaans speaking merino stud breeder, farmed the family farm in the Karoo. Van Heerden was reared Afrikaans, with English reserved for use at home on Tuesdays, and learned from comics ordered from London. Due to being born blind in the right eye, he was not called up for combat duty, but served as a dog handler, playing his alsatian at major festivals. Van Heerden initially studied law, and was admitted to the South African Side Bar as attorney. He freelanced as deputy sheriff for the Civil Court, and moved about in the townships around Cape Town, dispensing civil summonses and learning a great deal about life in these suppressed communities. As a young practitioner, his clients were mostly from the black and coloured crime-ridden communities around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Sleigh
Daniel Sleigh is a South African novelist who writes in Afrikaans. He was born on the farm Geelbeksfontein on the West Coast on 3 November 1938. He matriculated at Vredenburg High School and then joined the South African Navy. Until 1962, he studied at the Paarl Training College to become a Physical Education teacher, after which he taught in Namibia and Cape Town. In 1969 he completed his BA Degree in History and English Literature at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Sleigh then completed a MA Degree cum laude, followed by a Doctorate in History in 1987 at the University of Stellenbosch. Until his retirement in 1996, Sleigh worked at the Western Cape Department of Education. He made his literary debut in 1974 with the volume of poetry entitled ''Duif oor water''. This was followed by historical works for young people, like ''Die buiteposte'' and ''Tussen twee vlae''. In 2001 he won the Sanlam/Insig/Tafelberg Competition for his novel Eilande. This novel was later also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Karsten
Chris Karsten (born 9 November 1947) is a South African journalist and writer writing in Afrikaans who has received numerous awards for his writing. Life and work Chris Karsten was born on 9 November 1947 in Morgenzon in Mpumalanga. He matriculated from the Hoërskool Hoogenhout in Bethal. Afterwards, he studied further at the University of Pretoria and in 1970 earned a B.A with Afrikaans-Dutch and psychology as majors. In 1971 he began his career as a journalist for ''Die Volksblad'' in Bloemfontein. With the support of ''Beeld'' in 1974 he moved to Johannesburg. He returned to ''Die Volksblad'' as editor and was also the representative for Nasionale Koerante in Zimbabwe, head of ''Die Volksblad'' newspaper and parliamentary reporter. Later he became news editor and member of the newspaper's editorial team. He moved to George, where he served as bureau-head for ''Rapport''. He married Simone, who was born in Canada and came to South Africa as a child. In 2010 they decided t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eben Venter
Eben Venter is an Afrikaans-speaking writer who was born in Burgersdorp in South Africa and has lived in Australia, Japan and the Netherlands. He published eleven works of fiction (novels, short story collections and a cookbook). His works have been translated into English, Dutch and German. He was awarded the M-Net Literary Award in 2010 for his book ''Santa Gamka''. Life Venter was raised on a farm in Eastern Cape. He went to Grey College in Bloemfontein before he was conscripted into the air force and served on the Angolan border. He obtained an MA in philosophy and worked as a journalist in Johannesburg before leaving South Africa in 1986, during the State of Emergency. He went to Australia where he worked as a chef in his sibling's café. In 2005, Venter taught at Adam Mickiewicz University and Palacky University before becoming a writer-in-residency at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in 2007. On August 4, 2010, Venter was nominated for the M-Net Literary A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marita Van Der Vyver
Marita van der Vyver (born 6 May 1958) is an Afrikaans author who has written several books for both adult and youth audiences. Since 1999, she has been living in France with her husband and four children. Van der Vyver wrote a collection of humorous essays detailing life in the countryside of France, titled ''Die hart van ons huis'' in 2004, after which her first volume of short stories, ''Bestemmings'' was released, together with an English counterpart. Biography She was born in Cape Town in 1958 and grew up in Bellville, Menlo Park and got her early education from Hoërskool Nelspruit. In 1975, in a national Afrikaans poetry competition for matric pupils, she won a study bursary for four years at the university of her choice. She chose Stellenbosch University, where she participated in D.J. Opperman's poetry workshops and was awarded a BA degree, majoring in Afrikaans and French, in 1978. The following year, she acquired an honours degree in journalism. She completed a mast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiela's Child
''Fiela's Child'' is a South African drama written by Dalene Matthee and published in 1985. The book was originally written in Afrikaans under the name ''Fiela se Kind'', and was later translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Icelandic and Sinhalese, among others. Plot The story is set in the forests of Knysna, South Africa in the nineteenth century, and tells the story of a Cape Coloured woman, Fiela Komoetie, and her family who adopts an abandoned Afrikaner child Benjamin Komoetie at tender age of three found outside her door. Nine years later, census-takers come to count the people living in the Long Kloof. They are shocked that a white child is living with a Coloured family and somehow come to the conclusion that the white child must be the child lost by the van Rooyens who live in the Forest. Fiela is distraught that her child is being taken away and travels to speak with the magistrate which fails because the magistrate is a white supremacist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrikaans
Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and their enslaved people. Afrikaans gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics during the course of the 18th century. Now spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, estimates circa 2010 of the total number of Afrikaans speakers range between 15 and 23 million. Most linguists consider Afrikaans to be a partly creole language. An estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary is of Dutch origin with adopted words from other languages including German and the Khoisan languages of Southern Africa. Differences with Dutch include a more analytic-type morphology and grammar, and some pronunciations. There is a large degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages, especially in written form. About 13.5% of the South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
