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C.P. Hoogenhout Award
The C.P. Hoogenhout Award is awarded since 1960 to recognize the best original Afrikaans book for children between seven and twelve years of age. The South African Library Association instituted the prize for the best children's picture book. In earlier years the prize was awarded annually, but since 1982 it is awarded every two years. Since 2000 the awards have been sponsored by the SALI Trust. Previous winners are:Du Plessis, Miemie. "Bekronings en toekennings vir Afrikaanse kinder- en jeugboeke" in Snyman, Maritha and Wÿbenga, Gretel. Van Patrys-hulle tot Hanna Hoekom: 'n Gids tot die Afrikaanse kinder- en jeugboek. Pretoria: LAPA Uitgewers. 2005. * 1960 - W.O. Kühne (''Huppel verjaar'') * 1961 - Alba Bouwer (''Katrientjie van Keerweder'') * 1962 - No award made * 1963 - F. du Plessis (author) and Katrine Harries (illustrator) (''Rympieboek vir kleuters'') * 1964 - Freda Linde (''Snoet-alleen'') * 1965 - No award made * 1966 - Günther Komnick (illustrator) (for ''Botter-aas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Bouwer
Albertha Magdalena Bouwer (16 March 1920 – 5 October 2010) was a South African Afrikaans-writing journalist and author. She is best known for her series of children's stories about the experiences of a small girl called Alie growing up in the fictional location Rivierplaas in rural Free State. Late in life she published a novel for adults, ''Die afdraand van die dag is kil'' (The close of the day is cold, 1992), about two women in old age. Life Alba Bouwer was herself brought up on a farm in the Free State, and attended La Rochelle Girls' High School in Paarl, and Huguenot University College in Wellington. Most of her professional life was spent in literary and media circles in and around Cape Town. Immediately after graduation Bouwer began work as a school teacher, but she left teaching to become editor of ''Huishouding'', a newly established women's magazine. From 1948 to 1950 she was a radio producer and presenter in the children's service of the South African Broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freda Linde
Freda Linde (12 December 1915 – 7 March 2013 ) was a South African children's writer and translator. She wrote predominantly in Afrikaans. She has translated over 150 children's books into Afrikaans, French and German. She received the C.P. Hoogenhout Award in 1964. Life Born in Swellendam Swellendam is the fifth oldest town in South Africa (after Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Simon's Town, and Paarl), a town with 17,537 inhabitants situated in the Western Cape province. The town has over 50 provincial heritage sites, most of them b ..., she worked as journalist and editor until 1960. From 1960 to 1963 she was editor at HAUM Publishers, and from 1964 to 1971 editor in charge of children's literature at John Malherbe publishers. She retired to write full-time in 1972. References External links Freda Linde 1915 births 2013 deaths South African children's writers South African women children's writers 20th-century South African women writers Afrikaans-language writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona Rupert , where they lived in Thibault Street. They had a daughter, Marian. Rona and Koos were co ...
Rona Rupert née Davel (7 February 1934 – 25 August 1995) was a South African author. In 1976, she received the C.P. Hoogenhout Award. Biography Born in Calvinia, South Africa. Her father was a lecturer of Afrikaans and Dutch, before the family moved to Calvinia and bought Doega farm. Rona studied Afrikaans and music at Stellenbosch University and obtained a BA degree in 1953, a Secondary Teacher's Diploma in 1954 and a Performer's Licentiate (Piano). She also studied music for one year in Amsterdam. Rona gave music, recorder and piano lessons for many years. After their marriage Rona and Koos Rupert moved to Stellenbosch Stellenbosch (; )A Universal Pronounc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrie Hough
Barrie Michael Hough (17 January 1953 – 17 August 2004) was a South African writer who wrote children's stories. He wrote in Afrikaans, and almost all of his works have been translated into English. He was joint winner of the Alba Bouwer Prize in 1990 for his work ''Droomwa''. He also won the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature for ''Droomwa'' in 1990 and the CP Hoogenhout Award that same year. Publications * ''My cat Becomes Autumn'' (1986) * ''Droomwa'' (1990) * ''Wing Dance'' (1992) * ''Skimmelstreke'' (1995) * ''Turtles'' (1998) * ''Break'' (2002) – with Lizz Meiring Death Hough suffered from depression and committed suicide in 2004 at the age of 51. Awards *1990: Joint winner, Alba Bouwer Prize The Alba Bouwer Prize ( af, Alba Bouwerprys vir Kinderliteratuur) is a prize for outstanding children's literature in Afrikaans, awarded triennially by the South African Academy of Science and Arts. Works qualifying for the prize should have been ... for ''Droomwa'' *1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verna Vels
Verna Barbara Robertson Vels (13 June 1933 – 21 August 2014) was a South African writer and radio/television personality. She was responsible for programs on art and programs concerning youth. She was closely involved in the planning of television programs for the establishment of the Afrikaans service and started the children's magazine. Her most famous work was ''Liewe Heksie''; the stories were originally written for radio and later published and edited for television and video. Biography Verna Vels was born in Reitz, Orange Free State, South Africa. She attended the University of Pretoria, and in 1954 she completed a BA degree, majoring in Afrikaans and Dutch, English, and Art History. In December 1954, she started working as a radio presenter at the SABC in Durban, where she developed an interest in children's programmes. In 1963, she transferred to Johannesburg. In 1968 she worked for a year at Radio Netherlands in Hilversum Wereldomroep. In 1973 she moved to Durban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaco Jacobs
Jaco Jacobs (born 1980) is a South African children's author who writes in Afrikaans. Jacobs was born in the South African town of Carnarvon, Northern Cape. He started writing at a young age and sold his first short stories to magazines while still in high school. To date, he has published more than 260 books for children, ranging from picture books to books for young adults, some of them under the pseudonyms Lize Roux and Tania Brink. In 2007, his young adult novel ''Suurlemoen!'' (''Lemon!'') was chosen as an International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honour Book. Jacobs has won the Alba Bouwer Prize twice (in 2007 for ''Wurms met tamatiesous en ander lawwe rympies'' (''Worms in Tomato Sauce and Other Silly Poems''), and 2019 for ''Moenie hierdie boek eet nie'' (''Don't eat this book'')), as well as the C.P. Hoogenhout Award (2006–2007) for ''Wurms met tamatiesous en ander lawwe rympies'', the Tienie Holloway Medal in 2018 for ''Grom!'' (''Growl!''), and the Sche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Literary Awards
A child ( : children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The legal definition of ''child'' generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. Children generally have fewer rights and responsibilities than adults. They are classed as unable to make serious decisions. ''Child'' may also describe a relationship with a parent (such as sons and daughters of any age) or, metaphorically, an authority figure, or signify group membership in a clan, tribe, or religion; it can also signify being strongly affected by a specific time, place, or circumstance, as in "a child of nature" or "a child of the Sixties." Biological, legal and social definitions In the biological sciences, a child is usually defined as a person between birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. Legally, the term ''child'' may refer to anyone below th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Literary Awards
The South African Literary Awards (SALA) have been awarded annually since 2005 to exceptional South African writers. They "pay tribute to South African writers who have distinguished themselves as ground-breaking producers and creators of literature" and celebrate "literary excellence in the depiction and sharing of South Africa’s histories, value systems, philosophies and art." The Awards are open to work in all of South Africa's eleven official languages, and they may include posthumous honours. Since 2005, the number of awards has multiplied — there are now fourteen categories, recognising a variety of literary forms. There are categories for children’s literature, youth literature, literary journalism, novels, poetry, creative non-fiction, debut works, and literary translation; and two named awards, the K. Sello Duiker Memorial Award (for novelists under the age of 40) and the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award. Lifetime achievement is recognised in the Poet Laureate Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrikaans Literature
Afrikaans literature is literature written in Afrikaans. Afrikaans is the daughter language of 17th-century Dutch and is spoken by the majority of people in the Western Cape of South Africa and among Afrikaners and Coloured South Africans in other parts of South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini. Afrikaans was historically one of the two official languages of South Africa, the other being English, but it currently shares the status of an "official language" with ten other languages. Such was the opposition of the Afrikaner intelligentsia to the White Supremacist National Party and to Apartheid that, in an interview later in his life, Afrikaner poet Uys Krige said, "One of the biggest mistakes is to identify the Afrikaans language with the Nationalist Party." Other important Afrikaans poets and authors are André P. Brink, Ingrid Jonker, Eugène Marais, Marie Linde, N.P. van Wyk Louw, Deon Meyer, Dalene Matthee, Hennie Aucamp, and Joan Hambidge. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
