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List Of Afrikaans-language Poets
This list of Afrikaans language poets includes poets who write, or wrote, in the Afrikaans language. A * Hennie Aucamp B * Peter Blum * Breyten Breytenbach C * Jan F. E. Celliers * T.T. Cloete * Sheila Cussons D * Johann de Lange * I. D. du Plessis * Phil du Plessis E * Elisabeth Eybers H * Joan Hambidge * Daniel Hugo J * Ingrid Jonker K * Olga Kirsch * Koos Kombuis * Uys Krige * Antjie Krog L * C. J. Langenhoven * C. Louis Leipoldt * N. P. van Wyk Louw * W.E.G. Louw M * Lucas Malan * D. F. Malherbe * Eugene Marais * Mikro (pseudonym for Christoffel Hermanus Kühn) N * Gert Vlok Nel O * D. J. Opperman P * Mathews Phosa S * Adam Small * Lina Spies T * Totius V * C. M. van den Heever * Ernst van Heerden * N. P. van Wyk Louw W * George Weideman See also * Afrikaans literature * List of Afrikaans singers {{DEFAULTSORT:Afrikaans-language poets Afrikaans language Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or written), or they may also perform their art to an audience. The work of a poet is essentially one of communication, expressing ideas either in a literal sense (such as communicating about a specific event or place) or metaphorically. Poets have existed since prehistory, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed over time, resulting in countless poets as diverse as the literature that (since the advent of writing systems) they have produced. History In Ancient Rome, professional poets were generally sponsored by patrons, wealthy supporters including nobility and military officials. For inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Malan
Lucas Cornelis Malan (19 July 1946 – 15 April 2010) was a South African academic and writer of poetry, prose, plays, text books, literary reviews and other articles, principally in Afrikaans. Biography Early life and academia Lucas Malan was born in Nylstroom, where he also started school before matriculating at Pietersburg ''Hoërskool'' in 1963. Starting in 1964 he majored in Afrikaans and Art History at ''Normaal Kollege'', Pretoria (now part of University of Pretoria), completing his B.A. degree in 1966 and Higher Education Diploma in 1967. From 1968 he taught Afrikaans at the ''Hoër Seunskool'' Helpmekaar in Johannesburg for five years, before taking some time out to complete a B.A. Honours degree in Afrikaans and Dutch at the Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg) in 1974. It is during this time that his first poem is published, by the ''Izwi/Stem/Voice'', an underground zine that offered a voice to many politically active writers of that time, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Poets
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Lists Of Poets By Language
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List Of Afrikaans Singers
This is a list of notable singers who have performed in the Afrikaans language. Solo artists are alphabetised by their stage name or surname—whichever is more common. Choirs that sing in Afrikaans are also included in the list, but other music groups are listed in the " Music groups" section below. The first major South African singers to record in Afrikaans were Ada Forrest and Annie Visser, in 1908. A * Andriëtte * Anke B * Bok van Blerk * Cristina Boshoff * Piet Botha * Bles Bridges * Liza Brönner C * Arno Carstens * Chris Chameleon * Mimi Coertse D * Kurt Darren * Izak Davel * Al Debbo * Coenie de Villiers * Casper de Vries * Ray Dylan E * Erica Eloff * Jurie Els * Elvis Blue F * Joanna Field * Ada Forrest G * Anton Goosen H *Sonja Herholdt * Steve Hofmeyr J * Hennie Jacobs * Fanie de Jager * Lance James * Watkin Tudor Jones * Arno Jordaan * Theuns Jordaan K * Ada Cherry Kearton (married name of Ada Forrest) * Johannes Kerkorrel * Koos Kombuis ... [...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] |
George Weideman
George Henry Weideman (2 July 1947 – 27 August 2008) was a South African poet and writer. Born in Cradock, Eastern Cape, he grew up between the Karoo of the Eastern Cape and the Northern Cape. He matriculated from Namakwaland High School in Springbok. At the age of nine, he was already interested in learning languages like Magyar (spoken in Hungary) and Icelandic, and by the age of thirteen he was already running the school newspaper. In June 1966, as a second-year Bachelor of Arts student at the University of Pretoria, he published his first collection of poetry entitled ''"Hondegaloppie"'' (lit. "dog gallop"), which contained verses about the Karoo, Boesmanland and Namaqualand. ''"As die son kliplangs spring"'', published three years later, also contains material that is mostly about the landscape and nostalgia. In 1970, while he was teaching in Fraserburg, he published ''"Klein manifes van ’n reisiger"'' ("Little manifest of a traveller"), and in 1977, while teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Van Heerden
Ernst van Heerden (20 March 1916 – 30 September 1997) was a leading Afrikaans poet. Born in Pearston, Eastern Cape, South Africa, he was an openly gay academic famous for his poems on sport. He matriculated at Grey High School, Port Elizabeth. In 1948 he received a silver medal in the Olympic Games International Poetry Competition for ''Ses gedigte''/''Six poems''. He held the degrees of M.A. (University of Stellenbosch), D.Litt. et Phil.(Ghent), Hon.D.Litt. (Rhodes University), Hon D.Litt. (University of the Witwatersrand). He was an Emeritus Professor of Afrikaans and Nederlands at Wits. He also lectured at the University of Stellenbosch Stellenbosch University ( af, Universiteit Stellenbosch) is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Stellenbosch is the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant ... from 1943 to 1959. His hobby was the collection of South African works of art. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totius (poet)
Jacob Daniël du Toit (21 February 1877 – 1 July 1953), better known by his pen name Totius, was an Afrikaner poet. He was the son of Stephanus Jacobus du Toit and Elisabeth Jacoba Joubert. Life The poet D.J. Opperman compiled brief biographical notes in Afrikaans about Du Toit. Du Toit began his education at the Huguenot Memorial School at Daljosafat in the Cape (1883–1885). He then moved to a German mission school named Morgensonne near Rustenburg from 1888 to 1890 before returning, between 1890 and 1894, to his original school at Daljosafat. Later he attended a theological college at Burgersdorp before becoming a military chaplain with the Boer Commandos during the Second Boer War. After the war, he studied at the Vrije Universiteit, Free University in Amsterdam and received a Doctor of Theology degree. He became an ordained minister of the Reformed Church of South Africa and from 1911 he was a professor at the Theological College of this Reformed Church in Potchefstroo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Spies
Carellina Pieternella (Lina) Spies (born 6 March 1939 in Harrismith, in North-Eastern Free State South Africa) is an Afrikaans poet and academic. She received both the 1972 Eugène Marais Prize and 1972 Ingrid Jonker Prize, for her first volume of poetry, ''Digby vergenoeg''. Her translation of Anne Frank's diaries was awarded the translation prize by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy of Arts and Sciences). Spies studied philosophy, languages and literature at Stellenbosch University, the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Pretoria. She spent most of her career as a university lecturer, variously at the University of Port Elizabeth (now Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University), the University of Pretoria and Stellenbosch University. An authority on the work of Elisabeth Eybers, Martinus Nijhoff, D.J. Opperman and Hennie Aucamp, Spies was Professor of Afrikaans and Dutch Literature at Stellenbosch University between 1987 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Small (writer)
Adam Small (21 December 1936 – 25 June 2016) was a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism. He was noted as a Coloured writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that dealt with racial discrimination and satirized the political situation. Albert S. GérardEuropean-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa p. 224 Some collections include English poems, and he translated the Afrikaans poet N P van Wyk Louw into English. Life Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington. He matriculated in 1953 at the St Columbas High School in Athlone on the Cape Flats. He then attended the University of Cape Town where he studied for a degree in Languages and Philosophy. In 1963 he completed an MA (cum laude) in the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann and Friedrich Nietzsche. During the same time period he studied at the University of London and the University of Oxford. Adam became a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Fort Hare in 1959, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathews Phosa
Nakedi Mathews Phosa (born 1 September 1952) is a South African attorney and politician and was also an anti-apartheid activist. He is a former premier of Mpumalanga as well as a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC). Phosa ran for President of the ANC in 2017 lost to Cyril Ramaphosa. Early life and education Phosa was born in Mbombela township, Nelspruit. However, he grew up with his grandfather in a rural area near Potgietersrus (Mokopane). He matriculated at Orhovelani High School in Thulamahashe, Bushbuckridge. Political career He was one of the first four members of the ANC to enter South Africa from exile in 1990 in order to start the process of negotiation with the National Party government. As a result of the first fully inclusive democratic elections in 1994, Phosa was appointed as the first premier of Mpumalanga, a position which he held until 1999. During his time in office, Phosa pioneered planning interaction between th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
