Johannes de Villiers
Johannes de Villiers is ’n skrywer en meditasie-instrukteur. Hy bedryf ’n jogaskool in Bloemfontein. Hy lei landwyd slypskole en naweekkursusse oor meditasie en mindfulness. Johannes was jare lank joernalis by Huisgenoot, Rapport en Die Burger, en ook voorheen dosent in joernalistiek aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch.
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Sy waag haar hand aan romantiese kortverhale, en haar twee pogings in dié genre, Tango in die Kuberruim en Skarlakenvrou, verskyn in Huisgenoot. Een van haar kortverhale, Joy, verskyn in Bateleur Boeke se In ’n Neutedop, gevolg deur Die dag toe oom Willem geval het in Maskew Miller Longman se Literary Awards Edition p -
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He has won four significant literary awards in Afrikaans: His crime novel 'n Ander Mens won the inaugural kykNET-Rapport Prize for best filmable book - an award he won a second time with his urban fable Ek Wens, Ek Wens. This book also won the overall fiction award at this event, not long after the book was honoured with the WA Hofmeyr Prize for Afrikaans fiction.
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