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Eugène Marais Prize
The Eugène Marais Prize is a South African literary prize awarded by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns for a first or early publication in Afrikaans. In 1971 it was renamed after the Afrikaans poet and researcher Eugène Marais. The prize has no genre limitation, but only works that have appeared in the previous calendar year are eligible. Further, an author can only win the award once. The prize money (as of 2009) was R22 000 and was sponsored by ABSA and ''Rapport''. List of winners * 1961 – Audrey Blignault ( and her contribution to ) * 1963 – André P. Brink (''Caesar'') * 1964 – Dolf van Niekerk (); Elsa Joubert () * 1965 – George Louw () * 1966 – Henriette Grové (all of her dramatic work) * 1967 – Abraham H. de Vries (all of his prose) * 1968 – M.M. Walters (''Cabala'') * 1970 – P.G. Hendriks () * 1971 – Sheila Cussons (''')'' * 1972 – Lina Spies () * 1973 – Antjie Krog () * 1974 – Leon Strydom () * 1975 – P.J. Haasbroe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie Vir Wetenskap En Kuns
The Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SAAWK) (literally ''South African Academy for Science and Arts'') is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to promoting science, technology and the arts in Afrikaans, as well as promoting the use and quality of Afrikaans. The Hertzog Prize is awarded annually by the academy for high-quality literary work, while the Havenga prize is awarded annually for original research in the sciences. Origin The initiative for the founding of the SAAWK came from General J. B. M. Hertzog who championed the Dutch-Afrikaans language. He suggested ''"dat een lichaam in 't leven worde geroepen ter bevordering van de Hollandse taal en letteren in Zuid-Afrika"'' (that one organisation be established to promote the Dutch language and literature in South Africa). On 2 July 1909, the first 30 members of the body gathered to form the ''"Zuid-Afrikaanse Akademie voor Taal, Letteren en Kunst"'' (South African Academy for Language, Literature and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Van Niekerk
Marlene van Niekerk (born 10 November 1954) is a South African poet, writer, and academic. She is best known for her novels, the satirical tragicomedy ''Triomf'' (1994) and the Herzog-winning ''Agaat'' (2004), which explore themes including the family, the change in power dynamics occasioned by the end of Apartheid, and inequalities of race, gender, and class. Van Niekerk is also an award-winning poet. She writes in her native tongue, Afrikaans, and teaches at Stellenbosch University. Biography Marlene van Niekerk was born on 10 November 1954 on Tygerhoek farm near Caledon in the Western Cape of South Africa. She attended school in Riviersonderend and Stellenbosch, matriculating from Hoërskool Bloemhof. She studied languages and philosophy at Stellenbosch University. She published her literary debut while still a student – ''Sprokkelster'' (1977), a volume of poetry, won the Eugène Marais Prize and the Ingrid Jonker Prize. In 1978, she obtained a Master's degree, with a th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Jephta
Amy Jephta is a South African playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Works include ''Kristalvlakte'', ''Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story'', ''Other People's Lives'', ''Sonskyn Beperk'', and ''While You Weren't Looking''. She is a lecturer at the University of Cape Town and the first recipient of the Emerging Theatre Director's Bursary in South Africa. Her work has been staged at The Fugard Theatre, The Bush Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre, Jermyn Street Theatre, Theatre503 and the Edinburgh International Festival. Jephta is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab and was one of the Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans in 2013. Her monologue ''Shoes'' was performed by James McAvoy and directed by Danny Boyle as part of the 2015 show The Children's Monologues at The Royal Court Theatre. She has been a storyliner and scriptwriter on the drama series, Nkululeko, a coming-of-age story set in Khayelitsha for South Africa's Mzansi Magic Channel. Amy also lends h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanus Muller
Stephanus Muller (born 2 January 1971, Pretoria) is a South African music scholar and writer who has written about South African twentieth-century composition, exile, archiving, language politics, music and apartheid and university institutional transformation. As the last chairman of the Musicological Society of Southern Africa, he was a founding member of thSouth African Society for Research in Music(SASRIM) in 2006. He also founded the Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS) in 2005 at Stellenbosch University, and thAfrica Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation(AOI) at the same university in 2016. He received his BMus (performance) from Pretoria University in 1992, MMus (musicology) from the University of South Africa in 1998, and DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2001. Having studied with the writer Marlene van Niekerk, he also holds a MA in Creative Afrikaans writing from Stellenbosch University (2007). Career Muller is Professor of Music and Director oAf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronelda Kamfer
Ronelda Kamfer (born 16 June 1981 in Blackheath, Cape Town, South Africa) is a Kaaps-language South African poet and novelist.''Oor die skrywer'' (About the writer, in Afrikaans) in A novel. Life Kamfer grew up staying since the age of three with her grandparents, farm workers in Grabouw, Western Cape, South Africa, in a region known for its orchards and vineyards, located 65 kilometers south-east of Cape Town. She then returned to her parents, who, when she was nine years old, settled in Eerste River, Western Cape, a township of Cape Town that had many social problems such as a gang culture. This experience profoundly marked her life and her writing. She went to school at Eersterivier Sekondêr and obtained an Honours degree in Afrikaans and Dutch languages at the University of the Western Cape in 2011 (with Antjie Krog as one of her professors) and a Master's degree in Creative writing at Rhodes University in 2019. Kamfer held various jobs, including as waitress, office worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Dreyer
Tom Dreyer (born 17 November 1972) is a South African novelist and poet writing in both English and Afrikaans. He went to school in Johannesburg and Stellenbosch, and studied at the University of Stellenbosch and the University of Cape Town. He is an alumnus of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and has been writer-in-residence at universities and institutes across the world. He made his writing debut in the poetry anthology ''Nuwe Stemme'' (Tafelberg Publishers, 1997) and a number of his poems were subsequently included in the anthology ''Afrikaanse Poësie in ‘n Duisend en Enkele Gedigte'' (1999), compiled by Gerrit Komrij. Dreyer is better known for his prose work, and he has been awarded or shortlisted for significant South African literary awards. His latest collection of stories, Kodachrome, was published in August 2022 and has garnered rave reviews. Novels *''Erdvarkfontein'', Tafelberg Publishers (1998) *''Stinkafrikaners'', Tafelber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoffel Coetzee De Villiers
Christoffel Coetzee de Villiers (10 March 1850 – 4 September 1887), born in Swellendam as the fourth son of a wagon-maker, and married in Wellington where he then settled, spent his last years as a printer's clerk in Cape Town. His passion for researching his own family's history eventually grew into his compilation of ''Geslachts-Registers der Oude Kaapsche Familiën'',C.C. de Villiers, ''Geslachts-register der Oude Kaapsche Familien'' (red. G. McC. Theal), three volumes, Van de Sandt de Villiers, Cape Town, 1893–1904. a complete (in so far as it was possible) genealogy of colonists' descendants born at the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope during the Dutch period (1652–1806). He died of pneumonia with his life's work uncompleted and leaving his family in penury, having expended all his resources on his research. On his death-bed, he extracted a promise from his friend and mentor, the historian George McCall Theal George McCall Theal (11 April 1837, Saint John, New Brun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Henry Martin Scholtz
Andrew Henry Martin Scholtz (28 July 1923, Kimberley – 17 November 2004, Mafikeng) was a South African writer. Biography Early life and education Andrew Henry Martin Scholtz was born on 28 July 1923 in Kimberley, South Africa. Scholtz was the eldest of ten children. His mother was a "house mother", as he would put it and his father a saddler. Scholtz passed standard 5 (Grade 7) at Beaconsfield Coloured School in Kimberley. However, he had to leave school and work as a carpenter with his uncle in order support his family after his father broke his hip and became bedridden. His mother got him the job. Career Poverty compelled him to join the army in October 1940. He had to present himself as being 21 although he was only 17. It was a requirement for joining the Cape Corps that he have a driver's license. He however did not have one thus joining the artillery entity instead. Here he was accepted as a white and conceded to this, as he puts it, "to feed his family not to be ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Behr
Mark Behr (19 October 1963 – 27 November 2015) was a Tanzanian-born writer who grew up in South Africa. He was professor of English literature and creative writing at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. He also taught in the MA program at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Early life Behr was born into a family of farmers in the district of Oljorro, Arusha, Tanzania, then still Tanganyika. After the nationalisation of white-owned farms during the implementation of President Julius Nyerere's Ujamaa Policy of African Socialism in 1964, the family emigrated to South Africa. Here the family defined themselves as Afrikaners, with the Behr children attending Afrikaans language schools and the conservative Dutch Reformed church. Behr's father became a game ranger in the game parks of KwaZulu-Natal, where Behr spent his early youth. Between ages ten and twelve Behr attended the Drakensberg Boys' Choir School, a private music academy in the Drakensberg M ... [...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] |
Riana Scheepers
Riana Scheepers (born 9 December 1957) is an Afrikaans author. She received her PhD from the University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu .... She writes children's books, short fiction, and poetry. References External linksStellenbosch writers' site South African children's writers [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Hambidge
Joan Helene Hambidge (born 11 September 1956 in Aliwal North, South Africa) (the English surname notwithstanding), is an Afrikaans poet, literary theorist and academic. She is a prolific poet in Afrikaans, controversial as a public figure and critic and notorious for her ''out-of-the-closet'' style of writing. Her theoretic contributions deal mainly with Roland Barthes, deconstruction, postmodernism, psychoanalysis and metaphysics. Biography Hambidge studied at the University of Stellenbosch and the University of Pretoria. She was admitted to a doctorate under André P. Brink at Rhodes University in 1985. A second doctorate followed (University of Cape Town, 2001). Although Hambidge says she discovered her muse when she was young, it was while she was a lecturer at the University of the North, Limpopo Province, South Africa, that she started to blossom as a writer. She was awarded the Eugène Marais Prize for literature for her second volume of poetry, ''Bitterlemoene'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
