Etienne van Heerden

Etienne van Heerden ( born December 3, 1954) is a South African writer.

Biography

Van Heerden in 1954, six years after the introduction of apartheid, the son of an English-language mathematics teacher and one Afrikaans sheep farmer on a farm in the Karoo. After his studies he worked as a lawyer working mainly for black clients and learned so firsthand the abuses in the townships know.

After his 30th birthday, he took on a literature study. In the 1980s he was a member of a group afrikaanssprachiger authors who met secretly with members of the banned African National Congress. Today he teaches at European universities, such as Leiden and Antwerp, and is a lecturer at the University of Cape Town. With his wife, a doctor, he has two daughters.

Works

  • Matoli (1978)
  • My Cuban (1983 )
  • Om te AWOL (1984 )
  • Liegfabriek (1988)
  • ( English: Ancestral Voices) Toorberg (1986, 1989)
  • ( English: Casspirs and Campari ) Casspirs en Campari (1991 )
  • The ( English: Leap Year ) Stoetmeester (1993, 1997)
  • Kikoejoe ( English: Kikuyu ) ( 1996)
  • The van Mario Salviati Swye ( English: The Long Silence of Mario Salviati ) (2000, 2003)
  • In stede van which liefde (2005)
  • Asbesmiddag (2007)
  • 30 gnawed in Amsterdam (2008)
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