Fanie Viljoen
Fanie Viljoen is a well-known Afrikaans author, living in Bloemfontein, South Africa. A full-time writer, illustrator, and artist, Fanie has written numerous short stories, radio plays, and books for children and teenagers. Three of these books have won awards for youth literature - the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature, the ATKV-woordveertjies ('word feathers') and the M.E.R. prize for youth literature.
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Small was awarded the Hertzog Prize in 2012 for his contribution to the drama genre. Although the award was well received for being long overdue, some controversy arose because the Academy, in making the award, broke one of their own rules stating that the prize can only be awarded to a writer who has published new and substantial work in a specific genre during the previous -
Jaco Jacobs
Jaco Jacobs grew up in a small Karoo town in South Africa, where he fell in love with books at a very young age. His writing career started at school, with his participation in numerous competitions for aspiring writers, and the publication of his first short stories in magazines.
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At 18 he wrote his first youth novel, Pretpark, which was later published by Human & Rousseau.
Jaco has published more than 180 books for children and young people, including picture books, collections of children’s verse, and non-fiction. More than a million copies of his books have been sold and for the past few years, he has been one of the bestselling authors in the South African market.
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Edyth Bulbring
Edyth Bulbring is an award-winning author of nine Young Adult novels: The Summer of Toffie and Grummer which was shortlisted for the English Academy's 2010 Percy FitzPatrick prize for Youth Literature (Oxford University Press, February 2008); Cornelia Button and the Globe of Gamagion (Jacana, April 2008); The Club (Jonathan Ball Publishers, September 2008); Pops and The Nearly Dead (Penguin, March 2010); Melly, Mrs Ho and Me (Penguin, September 2010); Melly, Fatty and Me which was awarded the English Academy's 2012 Percy FitzPatrick prize for Youth Literature (Penguin, September 2011); The Mark which was awarded the English Academy's 2016 Percy FitzPatrick Prize for Youth Literature (Tafelberg September 2014) and Snitch which won the 2017 M
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Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard was a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright. Acclaimed in 1985 as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" by Time, he published more than thirty plays. He was best known for his political and penetrating plays opposing the system of apartheid, some of which have been adapted to film. His novel Tsotsi was adapted as a film of the same name, which won an Academy Award in 2005. It was directed by Gavin Hood.
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Fugard also served as an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego.
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
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Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fic -
Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard was a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright. Acclaimed in 1985 as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" by Time, he published more than thirty plays. He was best known for his political and penetrating plays opposing the system of apartheid, some of which have been adapted to film. His novel Tsotsi was adapted as a film of the same name, which won an Academy Award in 2005. It was directed by Gavin Hood.
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Fugard also served as an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego.
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Dalene Matthee
Dalene Matthee (nee Scott) matriculated in 1957 and went on to study music at a conservatorium in Oudtshoorn as well as at the Holy Cross Covent in Graaff-Reinet.
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Before gaining fame and wide acclaim for her first "forest novel", she also wrote stories for magazines as well as two popular novels - ’n Huis vir Nadia (A House for Nadia) (1982) and Petronella van Aarde, burgemeester (Petronella van Aarde, Mayor) (1983).
Kringe in ’n bos (Circles in a forest) (1984), a novel about the extermination of the elephants and the exploitation of the woodcutters of the Knysna forest, was an international success. Two other highly successful "forest novels" followed: Fiela se Kind (Fiela's Child) in 1985 and Moerbeibos (The Mulberry Forest) in 1987. Fiela -
Deon Meyer
Deon Meyer was born in the South African town of Paarl in the winelands of the Western Cape in 1958, and grew up in Klerksdorp, in the gold mining region of Northwest Province.
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After military duty and studying at the Potchefstroom University, he joined Die Volksblad, a daily newspaper in Bloemfontein as a reporter. Since then, he has worked as press liaison, advertising copywriter, creative director, web manager, Internet strategist, and brand consultant.
Deon wrote his first book when he was 14 years old, and bribed and blackmailed his two brothers into reading it. They were not impressed (hey, everybody is a critic ...)
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Ingrid Winterbach
Also wrote as Lettie Viljoen.
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Ingrid Winterbach is a South African author who primarily writes in Afrikaans. She is married to Andries Gouws and has two daughters. She lives in Durban.
She was born in Johannesburg in 1948. She studied Afrikaans, Dutch and Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. Lettie Viljoen's first novel was entitled Klaaglied vir Koos ("Lament for Koos"), and was published in 1984. As Lettie Viljoen she published Erf 1986, Belemmering 1990, Karolina Ferreira 1993 (translated into English by the author herself: The Elusive Moth 2005), and Landskap met vroue en slang 1996. As Ingrid Winterbach she published Buller se Plan 1999, and Niggie 2002. -
Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras (now called Chennai), and grew up in Mangalore in the south of India. He was educated at Columbia University in New York and Magdalen College, Oxford. His articles have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, and the Times of India. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2008. Its release was followed by a collection of short stories in the book titled Between the Assassinations. His second novel, Last Man in the Tower, was published in 2011. His newest novel, Selection Day, was published in 2016.
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Anoeschka Von Meck
In 2001 begin sy haar loopbaan as joernalis by Republike in in Windhoek en sou later vir verskeie gemeenskapskoerante in Suid-Afrika werk. Uiteindelik word sy as senior verslaggeefster by Rapport, Kaapstad, aangestel. Von Meck wen verskeie pryse as joernalis sowel as skrywer.
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Karel Schoeman
Schoeman is one of a handful of Afrikaans authors who has achieved real greatness in his own lifetime. His prizes include the Hertzog prize for prose three times (1970, 1986, 1995), the CNA prize (1972), the Helgaard Steyn prize (1988), the W.A. Hofmeyr prize and the Old Mutual prize for literature/fiction (1984, 1991). His work investigates the existence of the Afrikaner in Africa, especially those that came from Europe.
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After completing his schooling in Paarl, he went on to study a B.A. at the University of the Free State before going to a Catholic Seminary in Pretoria. In 1961 he joined the Franciscan Order in Ireland as a noviciate for priesthood, but then returned to Bloemfontein to continue studying Librarianship. Before returning to -
Marion Erskine
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He is the award-winning author of several works, including popular publications such as Vlerke vir Almal and Donatello en Volksie. In 2024, he won the RSG Radio Drama competition with his play Konneksie. He is also the proud recipient of two ATKV Veertjie awards.
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Michael Williams
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Martin Steyn
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Martin Steyn het begin skryf as gevolg van Stephen King. Nadat hy The Dark Half gelees het, was hy selde sonder ’n boek met Stephen King se naam voorop. En toe tel hy ’n potlood op en skryf ’n storie van sy eie. ’n Paar jaar later het reeksmoordenaars hom na die misdaadgenre toe gelok. Dit het Steyn gefassineer dat hierdie mans vreemdelinge vir hulle plesier jag en hy het begin om boeke oor Jeffrey Dahmer en Andrei Chikatilo te lees, terwyl hy die plaaslike koerant dophou vir berigte oor ’n reeksmoordenaar wat die liggame van jong seuns tussen die duine los, skaars 30 km van Steyn se huis af.
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Schalk Schoombie
Schalk Schoombie is gebore in Pretoria en word in Barberton en Kempton Park groot. Hy studeer Drama aan die Universiteit van Pretoria waar hy in1979 ’n B.A.-graad in Drama met lof behaal en as finalejaarstudent die Ludwig Binge-toekenning vir sy toneelspel ontvang. Hierna werk hy as akteur een jaar vir KRUIK en sluit dan by TRUK aan, waarna hy ’n voltydse loopbaan in die joernalistiek volg en slegs as vryskut akteur optree.
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Adam Small
Adam Small (1936 - 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. Some collections include English poems, and he translated the Afrikaans poet N.P. van Wyk Louw into English.
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Small was awarded the Hertzog Prize in 2012 for his contribution to the drama genre. Although the award was well received for being long overdue, some controversy arose because the Academy, in making the award, broke one of their own rules stating that the prize can only be awarded to a writer who has published new and substantial work in a specific genre during the previous -
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu is a writer, filmmaker and academic who holds a PhD from Stanford University, as well as master’s degrees in African Studies and Film. She has published research on Saartjie Baartman and she wrote, directed and edited the award-winning short film Graffiti. Born in Zimbabwe, she currently lives and works in Johannesburg. The Theory of Flight is her first novel.
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Kirby van der Merwe
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Avina St. Graves
From an early age, romance author Avina St. Graves spent her days imagining fantasy worlds and dreamy fictional men, which spurred on her introverted tendencies. In all her day dreaming, there seemed to be a reoccurring theme of morally grey female characters, love interests who belonged in prison, and unnecessary trauma and bloodshed.
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When she isn't reading, writing, doom scrolling, or figuring out how to make red flags look green, you can find her holed up in bed, combating the three Ps: back pain, neck pain, and knee pain. -
Marion Erskine
Marion Erskine was born in Randfontein and completed his schooling in Westonaria. He is a former PUK student and worked as a teacher in South Africa and later in Taiwan, where he taught English for six years. During his time abroad, he wrote his debut novel Oos, which was named a finalist in the "Ek is ’n skrywer!" competition. He then lived for 15 years in the United Arab Emirates, where he worked for Emirates Airline and at Barakah, the first Arab nuclear power station.
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He is the award-winning author of several works, including popular publications such as Vlerke vir Almal and Donatello en Volksie. In 2024, he won the RSG Radio Drama competition with his play Konneksie. He is also the proud recipient of two ATKV Veertjie awards.
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Zelda Bezuidenhout
Zelda Bezuidenhout was born in Zambia but moved to South Africa as a young girl. She worked as an advertising copywriter in Johannesburg for most of her adult life and only started writing books at the age of 56.
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Her first book, the youth novel "As mens geluk kon proe" was the runner-up in Lapa Publishers' youth novel competition in 2017. It has since been translated into English and was published as "Confessions of a Ginger Pudding" in September 2021.
Her first book for adults, "Die dekonstruksie van Retta Blom" was published by Kwela Books in July 2019. Another youth novel, "Die 6 weke van Thomas en Ella", followed in September 2019. "Toe ons oneindig was" was published in June 2020. A first for Afrikaans YA fiction, it's a coming of age -
Dalene Matthee
Dalene Matthee (nee Scott) matriculated in 1957 and went on to study music at a conservatorium in Oudtshoorn as well as at the Holy Cross Covent in Graaff-Reinet.
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Before gaining fame and wide acclaim for her first "forest novel", she also wrote stories for magazines as well as two popular novels - ’n Huis vir Nadia (A House for Nadia) (1982) and Petronella van Aarde, burgemeester (Petronella van Aarde, Mayor) (1983).
Kringe in ’n bos (Circles in a forest) (1984), a novel about the extermination of the elephants and the exploitation of the woodcutters of the Knysna forest, was an international success. Two other highly successful "forest novels" followed: Fiela se Kind (Fiela's Child) in 1985 and Moerbeibos (The Mulberry Forest) in 1987. Fiela -
Anoeschka Von Meck
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Jayne Bauling
Jayne was born in England but grew up in South Africa. After many years in Johannesburg and 17 women's fiction novels published in the UK, a move to White River, Mbombela in Mpumalanga, coincided with an exploration of new writing directions - youth fiction, short stories and poetry. Her YA novel E Eights won the 2009 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa, Stepping Solo was awarded the 2011 Maskew Miller Longman literature award for novels in English, and Dreaming of Light won the 2012 Gold Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature and was chosen for the 2014 IBBY Honour List. Her youth short story Dineo 658 MP won the 2009 MML silver medal, while This Ubuntu Thing was shortlisted for the inaugural Golden Baobab award and The Saturday Dress was short
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Schalk Schoombie
Schalk Schoombie is gebore in Pretoria en word in Barberton en Kempton Park groot. Hy studeer Drama aan die Universiteit van Pretoria waar hy in1979 ’n B.A.-graad in Drama met lof behaal en as finalejaarstudent die Ludwig Binge-toekenning vir sy toneelspel ontvang. Hierna werk hy as akteur een jaar vir KRUIK en sluit dan by TRUK aan, waarna hy ’n voltydse loopbaan in die joernalistiek volg en slegs as vryskut akteur optree.
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Kirby van der Merwe
Kirby van der Merwe was born and raised in Paarl. In Cape Town, he studied visual arts and was an art teacher for many years. He is an award-winning sculptor who also tries his hand at pottery and carpentry. He has published poetry and short stories. Klapperhaar slaap nie still nie is his debut novel.
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Jan Vermeulen
Jan Vermeulen is in Bethanie in die suide van Namibie gebore. Op veertien word sy eerste kortverhaal in die destydse jeugtydskrif Patrys gepubliseer. Hy het die graad BA Admissie met hoofvakke Hebreeus en Filosofie aan die Universiteit van Port Elizabeth behaal, en in 1987 'n BTh. en Teologiese Lisensiaat aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch. In 1998 voltooi hy 'n kursus in kreatiewe skryfkuns aan die Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands van die Universiteit van Port Elizabeth, en in dieselfde jaar verskyn sy debuutroman, Die laaste dans, by Queillerie. In 2000 verskyn sy eerste jeugboek, Geraamtes dra nie klere nie. Dit is met die Sanlamprys (goud), die M.E.R.-prys, die Scheepersprys en 'n ATKV-Kinderboektoekenning bekroon. In 2006 word sy
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Heléne Booyens
Heléne Booyens het van kleins af hondjies en perde in die kantlyne van haar skoolboeke gekrabbel. Vandag is sy ’n skrywer en illustreerder, asook ’n redakteur by Penguin Random House Suid-Afrika. Sy het honneursgrade in Bewaringsekologie en Joernalistiek aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch, en ’n lisensie om slange te vang en hervestig.
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James-Brent Styan
James-Brent Styan is a South African writer. He has written three books of which two have been translated into other languages. His second book, Heartbreaker – Christiaan Barnard and the first heart transplant, is currently being developed for film and TV by an international production house.
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James is a former accountant – turned journalist who specialized in finance and politics. He started his career in Johannesburg where he specialized in writing about state owned entities and energy and aviation companies. He followed this up with a number of years working as a senior political correspondent in the National Parliament of South Africa. He has an honors degree in journalism from the University of Stellenbosch and a Bachelor’s degree in Acc -
Jane Taylor
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An-Mari do Carmo
An-Mari do Carmo grew up on a farm in North-West, South Africa. From the moment she learned to read, books were her best friends, and she started writing her own stories from the age of nine.
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Growing up, she was raised to be part of the KwaSizabantu (KSB) Mission, which she later realised is a legalistic cult. After attending school on the Mission, she went to study Languages and Literature with an emphasis on Creative Writing at the North-West University, Potchefstroom, and broke all ties with KSB while learning about the grace of the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
After graduating she started working as a children's book editor, furthering her love for the book world.
Today she is married and devotes her life to books, her family and her fait