Elsa Joubert

Elsa Joubert (* October 19, 1922 in Paarl, born Elsabe Antoinette Murray Joubert, real name Elsabe Antoinette Murray Steytler ) is a South African writer. She writes in Afrikaans and was mainly through her 1978 novel, The swerfjare van Poppie Nongena known, in which she presents the life of a black in the center.

Life

Elsa Joubert grew up in Paarl, where they girls school La Rochelle attended until 1939. In 1942, she earned a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Stellenbosch, 1943, a Secondary Education Diploma. After she graduated in 1945 from the University of Cape Town with a master's degree in Dutch and Afrikaans literature. Then she taught in Cradock on the " Secondary School for Girls ". From 1946 she was responsible for the women's pages of the family magazine Huisgenoot. In 1948 she decided to work only as a writer. You made ​​numerous trips to Africa, to Europe and to the Dutch East Indies.

Joubert was a member of the avant-garde movement of the writing in Afrikaans Sestigers, but there was a marginal position.

Joubert's work includes mostly novels and travel books, including books about the former colonies Madagascar, Mozambique and Angola. In her 1978 novel, The swerfjare van Poppie Nongena (literally: " The wandering years of Poppie Nongena ", published in German as the Way Poppie Nongena ) she describes the fate of a black woman at the time of apartheid. The novel is about Nongenas ultimately futile resistance to the forced relocation in the Transkei homeland. The novel was translated into 13 languages, but rejected in their own country by many Boers.

In 1950 she married the journalist and editor Klaas Steytler, who died in 1998. Together they had three children. Elsa Joubert lives in Cape Town Oranjezicht district.

Reception

The future president Nelson Mandela during his long captivity read some of their travelogues about African countries. He felt Joubert first Burin, who felt as African.

Awards

Works

Travelogues

  • Water en Woestyn. Dagbreek Boekhandel, 1957
  • The tear understand. 1959
  • Van Suid the wind. 1962
  • Ons op wag the kaptein. Table Mountain, 1963
  • The staf van Monomotapa. 1964
  • Swerwer in the Herfsland. 1968
  • The nuwe Afrikaan. Table Mountain, 1974
  • Gordel van emerald. Table Mountain, 1997

Novels and short stories

  • The Wahlerbrug. Table Mountain, 1969
  • Bonga. Table Mountain, 1971
  • The swerfjare van Poppie Nongena. Table Mountain, 1978 German as the Way Poppie Nongena. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-550-06346-6.
  • German as the rainbow country. A family saga from South Africa. Knaur, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-426-66194-9.

Drama

  • Poppie - the drama. Along with Sandra Kotzé. 1984

Autobiographies

  • 'N Wonderland Like geweld. 2005
  • Reisiger. 2009
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