Marlene van Niekerk
Marlene van Niekerk ( born November 10, 1954, the farm Tygerhoek near Caledon, Western Cape, South Africa) is a South African writer and professor at the University of Stellenbosch.
Van Niekerk studied languages and philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch. As a student, she wrote several plays. Your master's degree she earned in 1978 with a thesis on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Then she went to Germany to be trained at theaters in Stuttgart and Mainz as a director. She moved to Holland in 1980 and made in 1985 her Ph.D. in philosophy with a thesis on Claude Levi -Strauss and Paul Ricour.
You wrote their works, starting with the volumes of poetry Sprokkelster (1977) and Groenstaar (1983 ), in Afrikaans. Her first novel Triomf ( Afrikaans for Triumph ) was released in 1994 shortly after the first general elections in South Africa and is considered one of the first literary texts of the new South Africa after the end of apartheid. The novel about a poor white family from a slum in Johannesburg was filmed by director Michael Raeburn and Zimbabwe in 2008 at the Durban Film Festival award as the best South African film.
Van Niekerk is a professor of creative writing in Afrikaans at the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of Stellenbosch.
Works
Poetry
- Sprokkelster, 1977
- Groenstaar, 1983
Short stories
- The Vrou wat hair verkyker Vergeet het
Novels
- Triomf, 1994
- Agaat. Tafelberg Publishers, 2004. ISBN 978-0-624-04206-8.
- Memorandum: 'n verhaal met Prente. With illustrations by Adriaan van Zyl. Human & Rousseau, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7981-4729-3.