Sir James Percy FitzPatrick, KCMG 24 July 1862 – 24 January 1931, known as Percy FitzPatrick, was a South African author, politician, mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. He authored the classic children’s book, Jock of the Bushveld (1907). As a politician, he defended British Imperial interests before and during the Anglo-Boer War. FitzPatrick is responsible for the
xKabelo “Sello” Duiker 13 April 1974 – 19 January 2005 was a South African novelist. His debut novel, Thirteen Cents, won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region. His second novel, The Quiet Violence of Dreams, won the 2002 Herman Charles Bosman Prize. He also worked in advertising and as a screenwriter. Contents 1Life 2Thirteen Cents 3The Quiet
John Maxwell Coetzee born 9 February 1940 is a South African-born novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Prize (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize,
Justin James Cartwright MBE FRSL 20 May 1943 – 3 December 2018 was a British novelist, originally from South Africa. Contents 1Biography 2Bibliography 2.1Novels 2.2Non-fiction 2.3Films 3External links 4References Biography Cartwright was born in Cape Town, South Africa, but grew up in Johannesburg where his father was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper. He was educated in South Africa, the United States
André Philippus Brink, OIS 29 May 1935 – 6 February 2015 was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town. In the 1960s Brink, Ingrid Jonker, Etienne Leroux and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the significant Afrikaans literary movement known as Die Sestigers (“The Sixty-ers”). These writers sought to
Herman Charles Bosman 5 February 1905 – 14 October 1951 is widely regarded as South Africa’s greatest short-story writer. He studied the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain and developed a style emphasizing the use of satire. His English-language works utilize primarily Afrikaner characters and highlight the many contradictions in Afrikaner society during
Lady Anne Barnard née Lindsay; 8 December 1750 – 6 May 1825 was a Scottish travel writer, artist and socialite, and the author of the ballad Auld Robin Gray. Her five-year residence in Cape Town, South Africa, although brief, had a significant impact on the cultural and social life of the time. Contents 1Early life 2Stay at the
Johan Adam Heyns 1928–1994 was an Afrikaner Calvinist theologian and moderator of the general synod of the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) in South Africa. He was assassinated at his home in Waterkloof Ridge, Pretoria. Contents 1Early life and education 1.1Higher education 2Career 2.1Heyns’s confrontation with Jurie le Roux 2.2Views on apartheid 3Assassination 3.1Motives 4See
Dion Angus Forster born 14 January 1972 is an ordained Minister of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. He is a theologian and author. He was formerly the Dean of the Seminary of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, John Wesley College. Prof. Forster is the International Chairman of the ‘EXPOSED – shining a light on
John W. de Gruchy born 18 March 1939 is a Christian theologian known for his work resisting apartheid. He is presently Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch. Contents 1Biography 2Works 3See also 4References Biography A native of Pretoria, South Africa, de Gruchy studied at the University