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Helena Hugo

Helena Hugo het haar loopbaan as aktrise begin, maar skryf en vertaal deesdae voltyds. Benewens talle boeiende verhale oor verskillende genres heen, is sy ook regisseur en skrywer van radiodramas en -vervolgverhale. Luisteraars sal haar veral vir Blinkwater en Mooi mense onthou. Sy het ook al drie keer die eerste plek in die Sanlam/RSG-skryfkompetisie gewen en haar drama Swane is met 'n ATKV-Woordveertjie bekroon. Helena en haar man, Henk, woon in Roodepoort en het drie volwasse kinders.

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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.

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

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Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight novels, including Wish You Were Here, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister’s Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Picoult lives in New Hampshire.

MAD HONEY, her new novel co-authored with Jennifer Finney Boylan, is available in hardcover, ebook, and audio on October 4, 2022.

Website: http://www.jodipicoult.com/

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Robin Cook

Librarian Note: Not to be confused with British novelist Robin Cook a pseudonym of Robert William Arthur Cook.

Dr. Robin Cook (born May 4, 1940 in New York City, New York) is an American doctor / novelist who writes about medicine, biotechnology, and topics affecting public health.

He is best known for being the author who created the medical-thriller genre by combining medical writing with the thriller genre of writing. His books have been bestsellers on the "New York Times" Bestseller List with several at #1. A number of his books have also been featured in Reader's Digest. Many were also featured in the Literary Guild. Many have been made into motion pictures.

Cook is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Columbia University School of Medic

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Gilbert Morris

also published under the name Gilbert L. Morris

Gilbert Morris was one of today's best-known Christian novelists. He lived in Gulf Shores, Alabama, with his wife, Johnnie. He is the father to Lynn Morris and Alan Morris

Series:
* Adventures of Kerrigan Kids
* American Century
* Appomattox Saga
* Barney Buck
* Bonnets and Bugles
* Cheney Duvall, M.D. (with Lynn Morris)
* Cheney and Shiloh: The Inheritance (with Lynn Morris)
* Chronicles of the Golden Frontier
* The Creole (with Lynn Morris)
* Danielle Ross Mystery
* Daystar Voyages
* Dixie Morris Animal Adventures
* Far Fields (with Robert Funderburk)
* House of Winslow
* Jacques and Cleo: Cat Detectives
* Katy Steele Adventures (with Alan Morris)
* Lady Trent Mystery
* Liberty Bell
* Lions of Judah
* Lone

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Angela Elwell Hunt

Christy-Award winner Angela Hunt writes for readers who have learned to expect the unexpected in novels from this versatile author. With nearly six million copies of her books sold worldwide, she is the best-selling author of more than 165 works ranging from picture books (The Tale of Three Trees) to novels.

Now that her two children are grown, Angie and her husband live in Florida with Very Big Dogs (a direct result of watching Turner and Hooch and Sandlot too many times). This affinity for mastiffs has not been without its rewards--one of their dogs was featured on Live with Regis and Kelly as the second-largest canine in America. Their dog received this dubious honor after an all-expenses-paid trip to Manhattan for the dog and the Hunts,

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Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning country music singer/songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist. To date, she remains one of the most successful country artists, with 25 number-one singles (a record for a female performer) and 42 top-10 country albums (more than anyone else).

She is known for her distinctive mountain soprano, sometimes bawdy humor, flamboyant dress sense, and her voluptuous figure.

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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.

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

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Maretha Maartens

Maretha Maartens woon in Bloemfontein. Reeds op 13 het sy stories en bydraes vir Klein Volksblad en die kerklike kindertydskrif Môrelig begin skryf en illustreer. In 1964, gedurende haar eerste jaar as BA Tale-student aan die destydse Universiteit van die Oranje-Vrystaat, is ’n seleksie van dié stories, blokkiesraaisels, strookprente ens deur die NG Sendingpers as Die Lekkerlees Kinderboek gepubliseer. Sedertdien het daar ongeveer 155 boeke uit haar pen – of die een verganklike rekenaar na die ander – verskyn.

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Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel is the bestselling author of five novels: FAMILY FAMILY, coming 1/23/24, as well as ONE TWO THREE, THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS, GOODBYE FOR NOW, and THE ATLAS OF LOVE. She lives with her family on a very steep hill in Seattle, but she's an east coaster at heart. She is also a baseball fan, a soup maker, a theater lover, a yoga practicer, a comma expert, and a huge reader (just like you).

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Robert Galbraith

This is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults.

NOTE: There is more than one author with this name on Goodreads.

Rowling was born to Anne Rowling (née Volant) and Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptiona

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Annelie Botes

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

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E.K.M. Dido

Elsie Katie Maria Dido is in 1951 op Tsomo in die Transkei gebore as die oudste dogter en die derde oudste van twaalf kinders. Haar moedertaal is Afrikaans, maar as kind leer sy ook Xhosa en Engels vlot praat. Die skooltjie in Tsomo bied klas net tot standerd vier. Ná standerd vier is sy na die sendingskool op Cofimvaba vir standerds vyf tot sewe en slaag dan standerd agt aan die Rooms-Katolieke kosskool op Cradock. Hierna moet sy noodgedwonge die skool verlaat om te help met finansiële bystand vir die res van die familie. Sy kies verpleging as beroep en voltooi haar basiese drie jaar opleiding en diploma in Kimberley. Daarna gaan sy in 1972 na Kaapstad, waar sy aanvullende diplomas in verloskunde, kraamversorging en psigiatrie behaal en pe

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André Brink

André Philippus Brink was a South African novelist. He wrote in Afrikaans and English and was until his retirement a Professor of English Literature at the University of Cape Town.

In the 1960s, he and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the 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. His novel Kennis van die aand (1973) was the first Afrikaans book to be banned by the South African government.

Brink's early novels were often concerned with the apartheid policy. His final works engaged new issues raised by life in postap

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Chanette Paul

Chanette Paul word rond en bont groot. Sy woon nege skole by, studeer aan vyf universiteite en het al in sewe provinsies gebly. Haar eerste verhaal waarvoor sy betaling ontvang het, is ‘n sprokie wat sy op sestienjarige ouderdom geskryf het en op Siembamba voorgelees is. Die tweede, ‘n kortverhaal, is in haar universiteitsjare in Huisgenoot gepubliseer.
Eers twintig jaar later, in 1995, gee sy weer aandag aan haar skryfwerk. Sedertdien het ‘n verskeidenheid verhale en humoristiese artikels in tydskrifte verskyn asook in die omgewing van 50 boeke in verskillende genres.

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Karen Kingsbury

Karen Kingsbury, #1 New York Times bestselling novelist, is America’s favorite inspirational storyteller, with more than twenty-five million copies of her award-winning books in print. Her last dozen titles have topped bestseller lists and many of her novels are under development with Hallmark Films and as major motion pictures. Her Baxter Family books are being developed into a TV series slated for major network viewing sometime in the next year. Karen is also an adjunct professor of writing at Liberty University. In 2001 she and her husband, Don, adopted three boys from Haiti, doubling their family in a matter of months. Today the couple has joined the ranks of empty nesters, living in Tennessee near five of their adult children.

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Wilna Adriaanse

Wilna Adriaanse is op 19 Maart 1958 in die Kalahari gebore. Sy het op Worcester grootgeword en matrikuleer in 1976 aan Hoërskool Worcester. Sy verwerf daarna ’n BA en BA honneursgraad in Ontwikkelingsadministrasie aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch. Sy is in 1981 met Deon Adriaanse getroud. Hulle het vir drie en ’n half jaar in Giyani (Limpopo) gewoon voordat hulle weer in 1985 hulself in die Kaap gevestig het. Sy verdeel tans haar tyd tussen Botswana en die Boland. Haar eerste boek, Die wingerd sal weer bot, verskyn in 2000 by Lapa-uitgewers onder die skrywersnaam Wilmine Burger. Haar bekendste boeke is Rebecca (2004), Met ander woorde (2006), Die boek van Ester (2008), Vier seisoene kind (2010) en Dubbelspel (2014). Sy het haar MA-graa

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Lucinda Riley

AKA: Lucinda Edmonds
Lucinda Riley was born in Northern Ireland, and after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first book aged twenty-four. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and sold thirty million copies worldwide. She is a No.1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller.

Lucinda’s The Seven Sisters series, which tells the story of adopted sisters and is inspired by the mythology of the famous star cluster, has become a global phenomenon. The series is a No.1 bestseller across the world with total sales of over fifteen million copies.

Lucinda and her family divided their time between the U.K. and a farmhouse in West Cork, Ireland, where she wrote her books.

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Sophia Kapp

Sophia Kapp skryf die soort stories wat sy self graag lees – liefdesromans. Sy glo onwrikbaar in die liefde en in die helende krag daarvan, maar glo ook dat haar hoofkarakters dieselfde sout as haar lesers moet opeet voordat hulle die vervulling daarvan mag smaak. Daarom plaas sy haar heldinne binne realistiese, lewensgetroue situasies en laat sy hulle spook met geloofwaardige krisisse waardeur vroue dwarsoor die wêreld en die sosiale spektrum moet worstel: verraad, verlies, egskeiding, affairs, miskrame, middelmisbruik, moeilike tieners, bagasie van vorige verhoudings ... Maar vir elke heldin wat bereid is om hierdie krisisse aan te pak en te oorkom, is daar ’n held, ’n man wat by haar pas en haar waardig is; iemand saam met wie sy binne ’

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Helena Hugo

Helena Hugo het haar loopbaan as aktrise begin, maar skryf en vertaal deesdae voltyds. Benewens talle boeiende verhale oor verskillende genres heen, is sy ook regisseur en skrywer van radiodramas en -vervolgverhale. Luisteraars sal haar veral vir Blinkwater en Mooi mense onthou. Sy het ook al drie keer die eerste plek in die Sanlam/RSG-skryfkompetisie gewen en haar drama Swane is met 'n ATKV-Woordveertjie bekroon. Helena en haar man, Henk, woon in Roodepoort en het drie volwasse kinders.

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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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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.
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

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E.K.M. Dido

Elsie Katie Maria Dido is in 1951 op Tsomo in die Transkei gebore as die oudste dogter en die derde oudste van twaalf kinders. Haar moedertaal is Afrikaans, maar as kind leer sy ook Xhosa en Engels vlot praat. Die skooltjie in Tsomo bied klas net tot standerd vier. Ná standerd vier is sy na die sendingskool op Cofimvaba vir standerds vyf tot sewe en slaag dan standerd agt aan die Rooms-Katolieke kosskool op Cradock. Hierna moet sy noodgedwonge die skool verlaat om te help met finansiële bystand vir die res van die familie. Sy kies verpleging as beroep en voltooi haar basiese drie jaar opleiding en diploma in Kimberley. Daarna gaan sy in 1972 na Kaapstad, waar sy aanvullende diplomas in verloskunde, kraamversorging en psigiatrie behaal en pe

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