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South African author, translator and academic
Michiel Heyns |
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Born | (1943-12-02)2 December 1943
Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Occupation | Author, Translator, Academic |
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Nationality | South African |
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Michiel Heyns (born 2 December 1943) is a South African author, translator and academic.
He went to school in
Thaba 'Nchu,
Kimberley and
Grahamstown, and later studied at the
University of Stellenbosch and
Cambridge University before serving as a professor of English at the University of Stellenbosch, from 1983 until 2003.
Since then he has concentrated on his writing full-time, and has won numerous awards for his reviews, translations and novels.
Novels
- The Children’s Day, Jonathan Ball (2002)
- The Reluctant Passenger, Jonathan Ball (2003)
- The Typewriter's Tale, Jonathan Ball (2005)
- Bodies Politic, Jonathan Ball (2008)
- Lost Ground, Jonathan Ball (2011)
- Invisible Furies, Jonathan Ball (2012)
- A Sportful Malice, Jonathan Ball (2014)
- I am Pandarus, Jonathan Ball (2017)
- A Poor Season for Whales, Jonathan Ball (2020)
Translations
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Marlene van Niekerk, Agaat (2006)
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Marlene van Niekerk, Memorandum: A Story with pictures (2006)
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Tom Dreyer, Equatoria (2008)
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Etienne van Heerden, 30 Nights in Amsterdam (2011)
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Chris Barnard, Bundu (2011)
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Eben Venter, Wolf, Wolf (2013)
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Ingrid Winterbach, It Might Get Loud (2015)
- Ingrid Winterbach, The Shallows (2017)
- Ingrid Winterbach, The Troubled Times of Magrieta Prinsloo (2019)
- Elsa Joubert: Cul-de-Sac (2019)
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Willem Anker, Red Dog (2019)
Awards
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