J.H. Thompson
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François Alwyn Venter was born in Hopetown on 27 November 1916. He attended school at Vioolskraal, Strydenburg and Hopetown, and matriculated in 1934. He studied at Stellenbosch University and commenced a career as journalist in 1938, working in Cape Town, Pretoria, Windhoek and Johannesburg. In 1960 he began farming in the Kenhardt district, and ten years later started farming near Vredendal in the Olifants River Valley. In 1976 he retired to Strand, where he began to write full-time.
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F.A. Venter was known for his historical novels, short stories and books for young adults. He received the Hertzog Prize for prose in 1961 for his novels Swart pelgrim and Geknelde land. Geknelde land formed part of his Great Trek tetralogy which appeared in t -
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Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaign -
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.
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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 ...)
Deon Meyer
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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.
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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 -
Annelie Botes
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J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets.
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Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, -
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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F.A. Venter
François Alwyn Venter was born in Hopetown on 27 November 1916. He attended school at Vioolskraal, Strydenburg and Hopetown, and matriculated in 1934. He studied at Stellenbosch University and commenced a career as journalist in 1938, working in Cape Town, Pretoria, Windhoek and Johannesburg. In 1960 he began farming in the Kenhardt district, and ten years later started farming near Vredendal in the Olifants River Valley. In 1976 he retired to Strand, where he began to write full-time.
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Alexander Strachan
Alexander Strachan is 'n Afrikaanse skrywer. Hy matrikuleer in 1972 aan die Hoër Landbouskool Tweespruit. Hy studeer tale aan die Universiteit van die Oranje-Vrystaat en later ook literatuur-wetenskap aan Unisa. Hy word 'n professor in Zoeloe aan die Universiteit van Zoeloeland; hy praat Zoeloe vlot. Ná sy bedanking skryf hy voltyds en sit sy wildboerdery voort.
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Dana Snyman
Dana Snyman is an award-winning South African journalist, writer and playwright.
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Snyman was born in Stellenbosch and matriculated from Nylstroom High School. He later followed a journalism course at the Pretoria Technikon before joining the Afrikaans newspaper Beeld as a crime reporter.
Three years later he became a journalist at Huisgenoot magazine, where he worked for ten years. As of 2007, Snyman is the travel editor of Weg! magazine.
His first book, Uit die binneland (From the interior) was published in 2005 and his second, Anderkant die scrap (The other side of the scrap), in 2006. Both are collected short-short stories and schetches.
Snyman's first play, the one-man comedy Die Uwe, Pottie Potgieter (Yours Truly, Pottie Potgieter), was fir -
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.
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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. -
Randall Munroe
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Karin Brynard
Karin Brynard’s crime novels have been published in Afrikaans, English, German, French and Dutch to great acclaim, having won the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize, two M-Net awards, and an ATKV prize for prose. Her most recent novel in Afrikaans, Tuisland, shot to the top of the bestseller list in the country when it was published in June 2016. Having worked as a journalist and political correspondent for Rapport for many years, she now writes full time. She lives in Stellenbosch.
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Karin Brynard het reeds verskeie toekennings verower, waaronder die Universiteit van Johannesburg Debuutprys vir Kreatiewe Skryfwerk, die ATKV-prosaprys en twee M-Net-pryse. Haar boeke word ook in Engels, Duits, Frans en Nederlands uitgegee. Sy woon op Stelle -
John Gwynne
I am the author of epic fantasy series The Faithful and the Fallen, Of Blood and Bone and The Bloodsworn Saga. I'm also a Viking re-enactor and enjoy nothing more than standing in the shield wall with my three sons, who are as passionate about swords and axes as I am (when I'm not stuck in my coat of mail; it's harder than it looks).
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I live on the south coast of the UK with my beautiful wife, three sons and my daughter, and an assortment of animals (at the moment three dogs, a horse and a lamb who thinks she's a dog).
My dogs think I am their slave.
Malice, my debut novel, was published by Pan Macmillan in 2012 and went on to win the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Debut of 2012. That was a truly wonderful moment, as David G -
Rudie van Rensburg
Rudie van Rensburg is op 6 Oktober 1951 in Bloemfontein gebore. Hy matrikuleer aan die Hoërskool Sentraal in Bloemfontein en behaal die grade BA (HOD) en BA (Kommunikasiekunde) aan die Universiteit van die Vrystaat en ’n BA (Hons.) in Kommunikasiekunde aan Unisa.
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Hy begin sy loopbaan as joernalis by Die Volksblad in die sewentigs, waarna hy in 1982 mede-stigter en uitgewer van Bloemnuus (die eerste gratis weekkoerant in die Vrystaat) sou word en later die redakteur van Die Ekonoom (’n landwye saketydskrif). Hy was ook verbonde aan die Universiteit van die Vrystaat se skakelburo voordat hy in 1987 Kaap toe verhuis en hom by Sanlam aansluit. In sy twee dekades by Sanlam is hy onder meer senior bestuurder: reklame, uitgewer van die kliëntetydsk -
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.
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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
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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. -
Julian Jansen
Julian Jansen was born in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape and grew up in Strand in the Western Cape.
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During an 18-year career as a teacher he taught Geography and History at two schools in the Helderberg. There he brought about positive change in the attitudes of ‘naughty’ learners by challenging them physically and mentally during mountain hikes.
Julian Jansen, has been a senior journalist at Rapport in Cape Town for the past ten years. He has 18 years teaching experience and is also a former spokesperson for the MEC for Community Safety in 2009. He is the author of the crime book, The De Zalze Murders : the story behind the brutal axe attacks. -
Raynor Winn
After walking the South West Coast Path, Raynor Winn became a long distance walker and now writes about nature, homelessness and wild camping. She lives in Cornwall.
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Emily Maitlis
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