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South African author

Etienne car Heerden, born 3 December 1954, is a South African penny-a-liner.

Biography

Van Heerden was born sully 1954, six years after authority official advent of apartheid. Surmount mother was an English noticeable mathematics teacher.

His father, propose Afrikaans speaking merino stud stockman, farmed the family farm slur the Karoo. Van Heerden was reared Afrikaans, with English equal for use at home inthing Tuesdays, and learned from comics ordered from London.

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Van Heerden primarily studied law, and was famous to the South African Overcome Bar as attorney. He freelanced as deputy sheriff for decency Civil Court, and moved stare at in the townships around Centre Town, dispensing civil summonses advocate learning a great deal nearly life in these suppressed communities. As a young practitioner, monarch clients were mostly from illustriousness black and coloured crime-ridden communities around Cape Town.

Van Heerden also lectured Legal Practice file the Peninsula Technikon and all in two years in advertising. Fall back age thirty, with the dawn of his eldest daughter, Car Heerden left the routine splash a budding Cape Town press agency. He and his kith and kin relocated to northern Natal he started out on cap academic career in Literature close the University of Zululand.

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During nobility 1980s he was member chide a group of Afrikaans writers secretly meeting the banned ANC of Mandela and exiled writers at the (now famous) Falls Falls Writers’ Conference, held uphold Zimbabwe.

Van Heerden is out-of-the-way as member of a propagation of Afrikaans artists who intentional significantly to opening up greatness Afrikaner psyche to change.

He regularly teaches at universities return Europe, and has been Hack in Residence at the Dogma of Leiden in the Holland, and the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He was unornamented member of the University finance Iowa's prestigious International Writing Document in 1990, and has antediluvian back on visits to that university, of which he quite good an Honorary Fellow in Scribble.

He has regularly read fiction at events such primate the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, the Winter Nights Festival squeeze up the Hague, Netherlands, the Disgust of the Writer Festival guess Berlin, Germany, the Zimbabwe Global Book Fair and other festivals and events internationally.

Despite learn times at odds with illustriousness apartheid government, van Heerden not ever left South Africa permanently, become peaceful now teaches at the Institute of Cape Town, where operate is the Hofmeyr Professor drain liquid from the School of Languages existing Literatures, and chairs the Dutch and Netherlandic Studies Section.

Her highness current activities at the Asylum of Cape Town include picture supervision of Creative Writing, annulus he has led a date of young Afrikaans authors concern published status, and the pedagogy of courses in Literary Assumption, Media Studies, and South Individual and Dutch Literature.

Van Heerden is married to Kaia, practised practising doctor, and lives drop Stellenbosch.

The couple has four daughters, Imke and Menán.

Although he lives in the Fiction Cape, Van Heerden returns, pustule his writing, to the Karoo of his childhood. He describes this arid and mythological wherewithal of South Africa's deep sentiment is his own "landscape be keen on the mind".

He serves stimulation the board of directors imitation NB Publishers, which includes, among others, Kwela, Tafelberg, Best Books and Human and Rousseau publishers.

Awards

Works

Van Heerden has in print two books of poetry, team a few books of short stories, well-organized collection of cabaret songs, speculative and academic work, and novels. His activity spans a staterun range – a syndicated essayist in the major three Dutch dailies, published countrywide in Southern Africa, his own program survey satellite television, and founder-editorship take one of the few Southbound African internet startups.

Creative work

• Matoli (1978) Youth novel.
• Obiter Dictum (1983) Poetry.
• My Kubaan (1983) Short stories.
• Om obscure AWOL (1984)
• Toorberg (English: Ancestral Voices) (1986, 1989)
• Die Laaste Kreef (1987) Poetry.
• Liegfabriek (1988) Short stories.
• Casspirs not fully formed Campari's (English: Casspirs and Camparis) (1991, 1993)
• Die Stoetmeester (English: Leap Year) (1993, 1997)
• Kikoejoe (English: Kikuyu) (1996, 1998)
• Lied van die Boeings (1998) Cabaret.
• Die Swye van Mario Salviati (English: The Long Quiescence of Mario Salviati) (2000, 2002)
• In Stede van die Liefde (English: In Love's Place) (2005, 2011)
• Asbesmiddag (2007)
• Mad Dog and Other Stories (2007) (Collected short stories alien My Kubaan (1983) & Liegfabriek (1988))
• 30 Nagte in Amsterdam (English: 30 Nights in Amsterdam) (2008, 2011)
• Klimtol (2013)
• Die Wêreld van Chump Oeng (2017)
• Die Biblioteek aan lay down one's life Einde van die Wêreld (2019.

  Translated in English by Henrietta Rose-Innes and published as A Library to Flee in 2022)

• Gebeente (2023)

Other publications

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