Kirby van der Merwe

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  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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  Bernhard Schlink

  Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.

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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.
  
  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

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  Arthur Miller

  Works of American playwright Arthur Asher Miller include Death of a Salesman (1949), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and The Crucible (1953).
  
  
  This essayist, a prominent figure in literature and cinema for over 61 years, composed a wide variety, such as celebrated A View from the Bridge and All My Sons , still studied and performed worldwide. Miller often in the public eye most famously refused to give evidence to the un-American activities committee of the House of Representatives, received award for drama, and married Marilyn Monroe. People at the time considered the greatest Miller.
  
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  Damon Galgut

  Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor and The Impostor. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award. The Imposter was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He lives in Cape Town.

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  Marita van der Vyver

  Marita van der Vyver is the author of a dozen novels, a collection of short stories, two collections of humorous essays, picture books for children, many short stories and essays in anthologies, and regular columns in newspapers and magazines. Her books have been published in English, Dutch and German, and her first novel, published in English as Entertaining Angels, became a bestseller and was translated into twelve languages. She lives in France with her family.
  
  Marita van der Vyver is die skrywer van ’n tiental romans, ’n bundel kortverhale, twee versamelings van humoristiese essays, prenteboeke vir kleuters, talle kortverhale en essays in versamelbundels, en gereelde rubrieke in koerante en tydskrifte. Haar boeke word deurgaans in Engels

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  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.
  
  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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  Heeding their wisdom, he did not write fiction again until he was in his early thirties, when he started publishi

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  Annelie Botes

  Annelie Botes was a South African writer in the Afrikaans language.

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  Ingrid Winterbach

  Also wrote as Lettie Viljoen.
  
  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.

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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.
  
  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

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  Chris Karsten

  Chris Karsten is op 9 November 1947 op Morgenzon in Mpumalanga gebore. Hy matrikuleer aan die Hoërskool Hoogenhout op Bethal en behaal ’n BA-graad met Afrikaans-Nederlands en Sielkunde aan die Universiteit van Pretoria (1970). Hy werk daarna as koerantjoernalis by Die Volksblad, Beeld en Rapport.
  
  Chris is die skrywer van twee kinderboeke, Floris sapiens (1985) en Die jokkie wat met perde kon praat (1997). Hy ontvang die Sanlamprys vir jeuglektuur (silwer) vir Floris sapiens. Sy eerste roman, Frats, het in 2007 verskyn, en is ’n jaar later met die ATKV-prosaprys bekroon.
  
  As koerantman was hy in verskillende joernalistieke hoedanighede gemoeid by baie van die stories wat in sy Ware Misdaad-reeks opgeneem is. Van die titels wat sedert 2007 in di

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  Leon van Nierop

  Leon van Nierop is ’n bekroonde skrywer wat reeds 23 vollengte romans geskryf het, asook verskeie radiovervolgverhale, TV-reekse, dramas, rubrieke, boek- en rolprentresensies, kortverhale en akademiese boeke. Hy het verlede jaar die Caxton-toekenning gekry as beste skrywer van die jaar en sy drama Twyfelberg is met die tweede prys vir die RSG-SANLAM radiodrama skryfkompetisie bekroon. Van sy bekendste TV-reekse sluit in Ballade vir ’n enkeling en Wolwedans in die skemer. Hy het die kykNET-sepie Villa Rosa ook geskep en die trefferradioverhaal Stralerjakkers (waarvan daar ook ’n resepteboek uitgegee is). Van sy bekendste romans sluit in Plesierengel, Adrenalien, Sielsmokkelaar en Paradys.

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  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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  Samantha Harvey

  Samantha Harvey has completed postgraduate courses in philosophy and in Creative Writing. In addition to writing, she has traveled extensively and taught in Japan and has lived in Ireland and New Zealand. She recently co-founded an environmental charity and lives in Bath, England.
  
  Her first novel, The Wilderness, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009, longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize and won the 2009 Betty Trask Prize.

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  Irma Venter

  Irma Venter is a thriller writer. She writes books about strong women, interesting men and that fascinating space between right and wrong. Her first book, Skoenlapper, was published in 2012, in Afrikaans. Six of her books have been translated.
  
  Irma Venter is 'n misdaadskrywer. Haar eerste boek word in 2012 gepubliseer. Skoenlapper word gevolg deur Skrapnel, Sondebok, Skarlaken, Sirkus, Sondag en Sewe-en-veertig. Minder as Niks verskyn in 2021, en is die begin van 'n nuwe krimireeks met Ami Prinsloo as die hoofkarakter. Die Verkeerde Vrou is die tweede boek in die reeks, gevolg deur Al Wat Tel. Die vierde boek in die Ami-reeks het pas verskyn – Die Drie Weduwees.
  

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  Madelein Rust

  Madelein Rust se liefde vir die geskrewe woord begin in die klein skoolbiblioteek van Brandwag Primêr in Bloemfontein, waar sy pousetye die een boek na die ander verslind. Sy slyp haar skrywerstande reeds op skool, waar sy uitblink in stelwerk en opstelkompetisies. As jong ma sluit sy aan by die Bloemfonteinse Skrywersvereniging, waar sy ’n aantal pryse wen in die vereniging se jaarlikse skrywerskompetisie vir amateurskrywers.
  
  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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  Irna van Zyl

  Irna van Zyl is the author of the thriller "Dead in the Water". She is an award-winning journalist and media entrepreneur who headed up De Kat, Insig and Boeke-Insig before becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Cape Town with her partner, two dogs and a cat.
  
  Irna van Zyl is die skrywer van die riller "Moordvis". Sy is ’n bekende mediapersoonlikheid en was onder meer redakteur van De Kat, Insig en Boeke-Insig voordat sy heeltyds begin skryf het. Sy woon in Kaapstad saam met haar lewensmaat, twee honde en ’n kat.
  

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  Adam Kay

  Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer. He previously worked for many years as a junior doctor. His first book "This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor" was a Sunday Times number one bestseller for over a year and has sold over two million copies. It has been translated into 37 languages and is winner of four National Book Awards, including Book of the Year, and will be a major new comedy drama for the BBC.
  
  His second book "Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas" was an instant Sunday Times number one bestseller and sold over 500,000 copies in its first few weeks.
  
  "Dear NHS", edited by Adam Kay, was an instant Sunday Times number one with all profits donated to charity. His first children's book "Kay's Anatomy" will b

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  Anelia Heese

  Anelia Heese is ’n maatskaplike entrepreneur en spesialis in gemeenskapskultuurontwikkeling in Berlyn. Sy skryf graag liefdesbriewe vir haar enigste tuiste, Suid-Afrika. Haar podsending, diensplig.org is ’n poging om ons pa’s beter te verstaan. Skryf ook bydraes vir Vrye Weekblad.

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