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Leon De Villiers
Leon Johannes de Villiers (born 25 June 1960, Pretoria) is an Afrikaans author of children's and youth stories. During his career he has been awarded the Scheepers Prize, the MER Prize, the 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 ..., the CP Hoogenhout Prize and the ATKV Children's Book Award. His youth novel, '' Die Pro'' (''The Pro)'', was adapted and released in 2015 as a film. Works References {{DEFAULTSORT:de Villiers, Leon 1960 births Living people South African children's writers People from Pretoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pretoria
Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the Executive (government), executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa. Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends eastward into the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountains. It has a reputation as an academic city and center of research, being home to the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), the University of Pretoria (UP), the University of South Africa (UNISA), the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and the Human Sciences Research Council. It also hosts the National Research Foundation (South Africa), National Research Foundation and the South African Bureau of Standards. Pretoria was one of the host cities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Pretoria is the central part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality which was formed by the amalgamation of several former local authorities, including Bronkhorstspruit, Centurion, Gaute ... [...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] |
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 published within the preceding three years, and be intended for under-12s. The prize is named in honour of children's author Alba Bouwer (1920–2010), herself a three-time winner of the , instituted in 1956. Recipients Recipients of the Alba Bouwer Prize are: *1989 Freda Linde, ' (1987) *1992 Joint winners: ** Barrie Hough, ' (1990) ** Marietjie de Jongh, ' (1991) *1995 Corlia Fourie, ' (1994) and ''Die wit vlinder'' (1993) *1998 Philip de Vos, ' (1995) *2001 Martie Preller, ' (2000) *2004 Leon de Villiers, ' (2003) *2007 Jaco Jacobs, ' (2005) *2010 Linda Rode, ' (2009) *2013 Elizabeth Wasserman, ' (2012) *2016 Kobus Geldenhuys, ' (a translation of '' Why the Whales Came'' by Michael Morpurgo Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Pro
''The Pro'' ( af, Die Pro) is a 2015 South African film directed by Andre Velts for kykNet. It is the first Afrikaans Surf Film to be produced. The film is based on Leon de Villiers book, also titled ''Die Pro''. It was among the most anticipated Afrikaans Films at the Silwerskerm Film Festival alongside films such as Dis ek, Anna. Plot Teenage surfer, Matthew Le Roux, has to come to terms with the accidental death of his best friend, Aj Meyer. After Aj’s death, Matthew doesn’t want to surf anymore. Then, Aj’s twin sister, Demi Meyer, returns to town and wants to be selected as a Wave-Seeker, a fictional World Surf Tour and something that Matthew and Aj wanted to be a part of. For Demi to succeed, she needs Matthew’s help, and needs him to get back on his surfboard... Cast * Edwin van der Walt as Tiaan Nothnagel * Viljé Maritz as Dirkie Lawrence *Reine Swart Reine Swart (née Malan; born 17 May 1990) is a South African director, writer and actress. She starred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Births
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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South African Children's Writers
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-facing side'' of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
