Michiel Heyns (born 2 December 1943) is a South African author, translator and academic. He went to school in

Thaba 'Nchu Thaba 'Nchu is a town in Free State, South Africa, 63 km east of Bloemfontein and 17 km east of Botshabelo. The population is largely made up of Tswana and Sotho people. The town was settled in December 1833 and officially established ...

, Kimberley and

Grahamstown Makhanda, also known as Grahamstown, is a town of about 140,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated about northeast of Port Elizabeth and southwest of East London, Eastern Cape, East London. Makhanda is the lar ...

, and later studied 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 ...

and

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before serving as a professor of English at the University of Stellenbosch, from 1983 until 2003. Since then he has concentrated on his writing full-time, and has won numerous awards for his reviews, translations and novels.

Novels

*''The Children’s Day'', Jonathan Ball (2002) *''The Reluctant Passenger'', Jonathan Ball (2003) *''The Typewriter's Tale'', Jonathan Ball (2005) *''Bodies Politic'', Jonathan Ball (2008) *''Lost Ground'', Jonathan Ball (2011) *''Invisible Furies'', Jonathan Ball (2012) *''A Sportful Malice'', Jonathan Ball (2014) *''I am Pandarus,'' Jonathan Ball (2017) *''A Poor Season for Whales,'' Jonathan Ball (2020)

Translations

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 ...

, ''Agaat'' (2006) *

, ''Memorandum: A Story with pictures'' (2006) *

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 ...

, ''Equatoria'' (2008) *

Etienne van Heerden Etienne van Heerden, born 3 December 1954, is a South African author. Biography Van Heerden was born in 1954, six years after the official advent of apartheid. His mother was an English speaking mathematics teacher. His father, an Afrikaans speak ...

, ''30 Nights in Amsterdam'' (2011) *

Chris Barnard Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident-v ...

, ''Bundu'' (2011) * Eben Venter, ''Wolf, Wolf'' (2013) *

Ingrid Winterbach Lettie Viljoen was a pseudonym of the South African author Ingrid Winterbach, who primarily writes in Afrikaans. She lives in Jamestown, Stellenbosch. Life and education Winterbach was born in Johannesburg in 1948. She got her early education fr ...

, ''It Might Get Loud'' (2015) *Ingrid Winterbach, ''The Shallows'' (2017) *Ingrid Winterbach, ''The Troubled Times of Magrieta Prinsloo'' (2019) *Elsa Joubert: ''Cul-de-Sac (2019)'' *

Willem Anker Willem Anker (born 1979) is a South African writer who writes in the Afrikaans language. He was born in Citrusdal in 1979. He studied at Stellenbosch University, where he now teaches creative writing. His debut novel, ''Siegfried'', was published ...

, ''Red Dog'' (2019)

Awards

*2006

Thomas Pringle Award The Thomas Pringle Award is an annual award for work published in newspapers, periodicals and journals. They are awarded on a rotation basis for: a book, play, film or TV review; a literary article or substantial book review; an article on English ...

for Reviews in 2006 *2007

Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation The Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation is a bi-annual prize, first awarded in 2007, for translation of prose or poetry into English from any of the other South African official languages. It is administered by the English Academy of South Africa, a ...

for ''Agaat'' *2008

South African Translators' Institute Prize 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 ...

for ''Agaat'' *2009

Herman Charles Bosman Award The Media24 Books Literary Awards (known before 2011 as the Via Afrika Awards, and before that as the Nasboek Literary Awards) are a group of five South African literary prizes awarded annually by Media24, the print-media arm of the South African m ...

for ''Bodies Politic'' *2010

for Reviews in 2010 *2012

for ''Lost Ground'' *2012

The Sunday Times Fiction Prize The ''Sunday Times'' CNA Literary Awards are awarded annually to South African writers by the South African weekly newspaper the ''Sunday Times (South Africa), Sunday Times''. They comprise the ''Sunday Times'' CNA Literary Award for Non-ficti ...

for ''Lost Ground'' *2013 Prix de l'Union Interalliee for the French Translation of ''The Typewriter's Tale'' *2015 Herman Charles Bosman Award for ''A Sportful Malice'' *2019 SALA Prize for Literary Translation for ''Red Dog.'' *2020 Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation for ''The Shallows'' *2021 University of Johannesburg Prize for Literary Translation for ''Red Dog''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Heyns, Michiel Afrikaner people People from Stellenbosch South African male novelists 1943 births Living people Stellenbosch University alumni