Etienne van heerden biography for kids
Etienne van Heerden
South African author
Etienne van Heerden, born 3 December , is a South African author.
Biography
Van Heerden was born in , six years after the official advent of apartheid. His mother was an English speaking mathematics teacher.
His father, an Afrikaans speaking merino stud breeder, farmed the family farm in the Karoo. Van Heerden was reared Afrikaans, with English reserved for use at home on Tuesdays, and learned from comics ordered from London.
Due to being born blind in the right eye, he was not called up for combat duty, but served as a dog handler, playing his alsatian at major festivals.
Van Heerden initially studied law, and was admitted to the South African Side Bar as attorney.
Etienne van heerden biography for kids Van Heemst, David B. At age thirty, with the birth of his eldest daughter, Van Heerden left the routine of a budding Cape Town advertising agency. Writing in the Library Journal , Rebecca Stuhr noted that the author "weaves an intricate morality tale about the past and future of South Africa. His oeuvre is the focus of dissertations internationally and academic articles in peer-reviewed journals and papers read at international and local conferences.He freelanced as deputy sheriff for the Civil Court, and moved about in the townships around Cape Town, dispensing civil summonses and learning a great deal about life in these suppressed communities. As a young practitioner, his clients were mostly from the black and coloured crime-ridden communities around Cape Town.
Van Heerden also lectured Legal Practice at the Peninsula Technikon and spent two years in advertising.
At age thirty, with the birth of his eldest daughter, Van Heerden left the routine of a budding Cape Town advertising agency. He and his family relocated to northern Natal where he started out on his academic career in Literature at the University of Zululand. His PhD was a study on engagement and postmodernism.
During the s he was member of a group of Afrikaans writers secretly meeting the banned ANC of Mandela and exiled writers at the (now famous) Victoria Falls Writers’ Conference, held in Zimbabwe.
Online biography for kids Toerien, review of Casspirs en campari's: 'n historiese entertainment , p. As an academic, Van Heerden published in accredited academic journals and supervised postgraduate academic dissertations. Dec 3 , Etienne Ranked on the list of most popular Writer.Van Heerden is seen as member of a generation of Afrikaans artists who contributed significantly to opening up the Afrikaner psyche to change.
He regularly teaches at universities in Europe, and has been Writer in Residence at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He was a member of the University of Iowa's prestigious International Writing Program in , and has been back on visits to this university, of which he is an Honorary Fellow in Writing.
He has regularly read his fiction at events such as the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, the Winter Nights Festival in the Hague, Netherlands, the Time of the Writer Festival in Berlin, Germany, the Zimbabwe International Book Fair and other festivals and events internationally.
Despite at times at odds with the apartheid government, van Heerden never left South Africa permanently, and now teaches at the University of Cape Town, where he is the Hofmeyr Professor in the School of Languages and Literatures, and chairs the Afrikaans and Netherlandic Studies Section.
Etienne van heerden biography for kids printable In his novel Kikoejoe , later translated into English as Kikuyu , van Heerden tells the story of a rural guest farm and the unusual and harsh events that take place as told by the narrator, a boy named Fabian. All contributions are archived, with the result that LitNet has grown into a valuable archive for academic and cultural research, and is frequently cited. The LitNet node LitNet Akademies acts as home for accredited academic research in a variety of disciplines. Retrieved January 10, from Encyclopedia.His current activities at the University of Cape Town include the supervision of Creative Writing, where he has led a generation of young Afrikaans authors to published status, and the lecturing of courses in Literary Theory, Media Studies, and South African and Dutch Literature.
Van Heerden is married to Kaia, a practising doctor, and lives in Stellenbosch.
The couple has two daughters, Imke and Menán.
Although he lives in the Western Cape, Van Heerden returns, in his writing, to the Karoo of his childhood.
Etienne van heerden biography for kids youtube A Publishers Weekly reviewer, for example, called the novel "spellbinding" and hailed van Heerden as "an important voice in South African fiction. Van Horne's Lessee v. Van Hise, Charles Richard. Etienne matriculated from Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch and studied Law and Literature at the Universities of Stellenbosch BA Honours, cum laude and LLB , the Witwatersrand MA, cum laude and Rhodes PhD, with a thesis on engagement and postmodernism After articles, he was admitted as an attorney, briefly lectured law at a technikon and practised criminal law in the magistrates courts.He describes this arid and mythological part of South Africa's deep interior is his own "landscape of the mind".
He serves on the board of directors of NB Publishers, which includes, amongst others, Kwela, Tafelberg, Best Books and Human and Rousseau publishers.
Awards
Works
Van Heerden has published two books of poetry, two books of short stories, a collection of cabaret songs, theoretical and academic work, and novels.
His activity spans a wide range – a syndicated columnist in the major three Afrikaans dailies, published countrywide in South Africa, his own program on satellite television, and founder-editorship of one of the few South African internet startups.
Creative work
- Matoli () Youth novel.
- Obiter Dictum () Poetry.
- My Kubaan () Short stories.
- Om te AWOL ()
- Toorberg (English: Ancestral Voices) (, )
- Die Laaste Kreef () Poetry.
- Liegfabriek () Short stories.
- Casspirs en Campari's (English: Casspirs and Camparis) (, )
- Die Stoetmeester (English: Leap Year) (, )
- Kikoejoe (English: Kikuyu) (, )
- Lied van die Boeings () Cabaret.
- Die Swye van Mario Salviati (English: The Long Silence of Mario Salviati) (, )
- In Stede van die Liefde (English: In Love's Place) (, )
- Asbesmiddag ()
- Mad Dog and Other Stories () (Collected short stories from My Kubaan () & Liegfabriek ())
- 30 Nagte in Amsterdam (English: 30 Nights in Amsterdam) (, )
- Klimtol ()
- Die Wêreld van Charlie Oeng ()
- Die Biblioteek aan die Einde van die Wêreld ( Translated in English by Henrietta Rose-Innes and published as A Library to Flee in )
- Gebeente ()