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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