Zirk van den Berg

Zirk van den Berg is a bilingual author (English and Afrikaans) who writes across different genres.
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.
Four of his books appeared in both Afrikaans and English, one only in English and three only in Afrikaans.
His first book was a collection of literary short stories, followed by a short historical novel, both in Afrikaans. In 2004, Random House New Zealand published Nobody Dies, a c

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