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List Of South African Writers
This is a list of writers from South Africa. A *Lionel Abrahams (1928–2004) *Peter Abrahams (1919–2017) * Rehane Abrahams (born 1970) * Wilna Adriaanse (born 1958) * Tatamkulu Afrika (1920–2002), born in Egypt *Lawrence Anthony (1950–2012) *Hennie Aucamp (1934–2014) * Diane Awerbuck (born 1974) B * C. Johan Bakkes (born 1956) * Christiaan Bakkes (born 1965) * Margaret Bakkes (1931–2016) *Jillian Becker (born 1932) *Shabbir Banoobhai (born 1949) *Lady Anne Barnard (1750–1825) *Lesley Beake (born 1949) *Mark Behr (born 1963), South Africa/Tanzania *Dricky Beukes (1918–1999) *Lauren Beukes (born 1976) *Steve Biko (1946–1977) * Troy Blacklaws (born 1965) *François Bloemhof (born 1962) *Elleke Boehmer (born 1961) *Stella Blakemore (1906–1991) * William Bolitho (1891–1930) *Diphete Bopape (born 1957) *Herman Charles Bosman (1905–1951) *Alba Bouwer (1920–2010) *Johanna Brandt (1876–1964) *Breyten Breytenbach (born 1939) * André Brink (1935–2015) *Babe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Abrahams
Lionel Abrahams (11 April 1928 – 31 May 2004) was a South African novelist, poet, editor, critic, essayist and publisher. He was born in Johannesburg, where he lived his entire life. He was born with cerebral palsy and had to use a wheelchair until 11 years of age. Best known for his poetry, he was mentored by Herman Charles Bosman, and later edited seven volumes of Bosman's posthumously published works. Abrahams went on to become one of the most influential figures in South African literature in his own right, publishing numerous poems, essays, and two novels. Through Renoster Books, which he started in 1956, he published works by Oswald Mtshali and Mongane Wally Serote heralding the emergence of black poetry during the apartheid era. An account of his important role in introducing black writers to PEN is given by his close friend, the writer Jillian Becker In 1986, he married Jane Fox. That year, he was awarded honorary doctorates of literature by the University of the Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes (born 5 June 1976) is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and television scriptwriter. Early life Lauren Beukes was born 5 June 1976. She grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. She attended Roedean School in Johannesburg, and has an MA in creative writing from the University of Cape Town. She worked as a freelance journalist for ten years, including two years in New York and Chicago. Career Books She is the author of ''The Shining Girls'', a novel about a time-traveling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around. It was published on 15 April 2013 by the Umuzi imprint of Random House Struik in South Africa, on 25 April 2013 by HarperCollins in the United Kingdom, and on 4 June 2013 by Mulholland Books in the United States. HarperCollins had won the international rights to the book in a fierce bidding war with several other publishers. ''The Shining Girls'' won ''The Strand Magazine'' Critic's Best Novel Award, the RT Thriller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babette Brown
Babette Brown (1931 – 10 February 2019) was a South African writer on race and diversity issues who was based in the United Kingdom. Brown was born in Johannesberg. She would Parktown High School for Girls, graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand with a bachelor's degree in education and from Enfield Polytechnic in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in education in sociology. She would marry Emanuel Brown in 1953. Brown's books include ''Unlearning Discrimination in the Early Years'' (1998) and ''Combatting Discrimination: Persona Dolls in Action'' (2001). She wrote a children's book, Separation, based on her childhood in Apartheid South Africa. In 1997, Brown won the Jerwood Award for her work with her charity EYTARN (Early Years Trainers Anti Racist Network). She often wrote for Nursery World ''Nursery World'' is a fortnightly magazine for early years education and childcare professionals in the United Kingdom. It was first published in 1925 by Faber and Gwye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Brink
André Philippus Brink (29 May 1935 – 6 February 2015) was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town. In the 1960s Brink, Ingrid Jonker, Etienne Leroux and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the significant Afrikaans literary movement known as ''Die Sestigers'' ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to use Afrikaans as a language to speak against the apartheid government, and also to bring into Afrikaans literature the influence of contemporary English and French trends. While Brink's early novels were especially concerned with apartheid, his later work engaged the new range of issues posed by life in a democratic South Africa. Biography Brink was born in Vrede, in the Free State (province), Free State. Brink moved to Lydenburg, where he matriculated at Hoërskool Lydenburg in 1952 with seven distinctions, the second student from the then Transvaal Colony, Transvaal to achieve t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breyten Breytenbach
Breyten Breytenbach (; born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer, poet and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government. He is informally considered as the national poet laureate by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans. He also holds French citizenship. Biography Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale, approximately 180 km from Cape Town and 100 km from the southernmost tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas. His early education was at Hoërskool Hugenote and he later studied fine arts at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. He is the brother of Jan Breytenbach, co-founder of the 1st Reconnaissance Commando of the South African Special Forces against whom he holds strongly opposing political views, and the late Cloete Breytenbach, a widely published war correspondent. His committed political dissent against the ruling National Party and its white supremacist policy of aparth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Brandt
Johanna Brandt (18 November 1876 in Heidelberg, Gauteng, Heidelberg, South African Republic – 13 January 1964 in Newlands, Cape Town) was a South African propagandist of Afrikaners, Afrikaner nationalism, spy during the Boer War, prophet and writer on controversial health subjects. Biography Johanna van Warmelo was born on 18 November 1876, to Pastor Nicolaas Jacobus van Warmelo and his second wife Maria Magdalena Elizabeth Maré. Her father was a Dutch Reformed minister from the Netherlands whilst her mother's family had been early emigrants to southern Africa.Modernity and Religion William Nicholls, p72, Papers presented at the Consultation on Modernity and Religion held at ... [...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] |
Herman Charles Bosman
Herman Charles Bosman (5 February 1905 – 14 October 1951) is widely regarded as South Africa's greatest short-story writer. He studied the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain and developed a style emphasizing the use of satire. His English-language works utilize primarily Afrikaner characters and highlight the many contradictions in Afrikaner society during the first half of the twentieth century. Early life Bosman was born at Kuils River, near Cape Town, in Cape Colony, to an Afrikaner family. He was raised with English as well as Afrikaans. While Bosman was still young, his family travelled frequently, he spent a short time at Potchefstroom College which would later become Potchefstroom High School for Boys, he later moved to Johannesburg where he went to school at Jeppe High School for Boys in Kensington. While there he contributed to the school magazine. When Bosman was sixteen, he started writing short stories for the national Sunday newspaper (the '' Sunday Times' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diphete Bopape
Heniel Diphete D. Bopape (born 1957) is a South African novelist, playwright and journalist. Biography Bopape was born in Transvaal Province, in what today is Limpopo. He graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Unisa in 1987. At the time he was lecturing full-time at Dr. C.N. Phatudi College. He is the owner and editor of ''Seipone'', a vernacular newspaper in Limpopo. ' (1982) pioneered the detective novel genre in Sepedi.Erika TerblanchePoëtikale opvattings, citing M. J. Mojalefa & N. I. Magapa (2007), "Mystery in Sepedi detective stories", ''Literator'' 28(1), April: 121-140. Works ;Plays *', Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1978 ;Novels * ' Golden Vulture Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1982 * ' ears An ear is the organ that enables hearing and, in mammals, body balance using the vestibular system. In mammals, the ear is usually described as having three parts—the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear. The outer ear consists o ... Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1985 * ', Preto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bolitho Ryall
William Bolitho Ryall (1891–1930) was a South African journalist, writer and biographer who was a valued friend of prominent writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Noël Coward, Walter Lippmann and Walter Duranty. He wrote under the name ‘William Bolitho’ but was known to his friends as ‘Bill Ryall’. He died on 2 June 1930 at the age of 39 just as his reputation was being established. Life Ryall was born as Charles William Ryall in Droitwich, in January 1891. His father was a Baptist minister, born in South Africa and he was taken there as an infant. He changed his name to 'William Bolitho Ryall' which was his uncle's name who died in South Africa and who wrote the book ''Pensam: His Mysterious Tribulation'' published in 1883.Report on Bolitho's death - ''New York Times'', 4 June 1930. Available in the New York Times archives at https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9807E5DD1238E03ABC4C53DFB066838B629EDE# ''Accessed 10.11.2014''; Before enlisting in the British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stella Blakemore
Stella Blakemore (1906–1991) was a South African woman writer of Afrikaans youth novels. Roots Blakemore was born in a tent near Lindley in the Orange River Colony on 13 April 1906. She went to school in Natal. Her mother, Emmarentia Susanna Catherina Krogh was a music teacher of Boer descent and her father was Captain Percy Harold Jenks Blakemore, an officer in the British Army. However, Blakemore left his wife and child four years later to become a professional card player. Her most famous pseudonym, Theunis Krogh, was derived from her grandfather on her mother's side - Theunis Johannes Krogh, the undersecretary of the South African Republic administration of President Paul Kruger. In 1933 she married the Welshman David Owen, a civil engineer, in London, which was the start of a period of worldwide travel for her. The lived, amongst other places, in Ghana, The Ivory Coast, Italy, England, Swaziland, Nigeria, Germany and Ireland. The couple had two children, Peter and Salen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elleke Boehmer
Elleke Boehmer, FRSL, FRHistS (born 1961) is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. She is an acclaimed novelist and a founding figure in the field of Postcolonial Studies, internationally recognised for her research in colonial and postcolonial literature and theory. Her main areas of interest include the literature of empire and resistance to empire; sub-Saharan African and South Asian literatures; modernism; migration and diaspora; feminism, masculinity, and identity; nationalism; terrorism; J. M. Coetzee, Katherine Mansfield, and Nelson Mandela; and life writing. With her fiction, Boehmer has established an international reputation as a commentator on the aftereffects of colonial history, in particular in post-apartheid South Africa and postcolonial Britain. Biography Elleke Boehmer was born to Dutch parents in Durban, South Africa, in what she has called the "balmy interstitial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
