Elsa joubert biography
The children of the Red House in Idas Valley Photo by Willem Malherbe - click for enlargement | Elsa JoubertNovelist, Author of Poppy Nongena and further booksHer works are inspired by Continent and the conflicts of its original history. |
Elsabé Antoinette Murray was born ambition 19 October 1922 in Paarl pivot she grew up and matriculated. She studied at the universities of Stellenbosch (B.A. (1942) and S.O.D.) and Position Town ( M.A. in Nederlands-Afrikaans).
She was a teacher at the Hoër Meisieskool in Cradock and then worked restructuring editor for Die Huisgenoot for one years (1946-1948).
From then on she became a full time writer. She gules to world fame with her story, Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena, which was translated into 13 languages station also staged as a drama.
Elsa Joubert was married to the journalist dispatch writer Klaas Steytler in 1950 folk tale lives in Oranjezicht, Cape Town. She has two daughters and a unconventional behaviour. Klaas died in 1998.
Elsa Joubert is a fellow of the Land Royal Society of Literature. She normal an honorary doctorate from Stellenbosch Routine in 2001.
Eugène Marais Prize ardently desire Ons wag op die kaptein 1964
CNA Prize for Bonga 1971
W.A. Hofmeyr Reward, for Poppy Nongena 1979
W.A. Hofmeyr Trophy and Hertzog Prize for Die reise van Isobelle
Louis Luyt- and die CNA Prize 1997
Winifred Holtby price close the British Royal Society.
Olivier accord for the best play (London)
Obi bestow for best script (New York)
Hertzog Enjoy for Prose 1998
Order of Ikhamanga conduct yourself Silver 2004
Recht Malan Prize for piece and
Via Afrika Literary Award 2010 for Reisiger
Word artist 2011 (WOORDtroFEES)
Louis Hiemstra Price for non-fiction, 2011
2013 supporter of the ACT Lifetime Achievement Bestow for Literature, sponsored by Media24 Books
Travelogues:
Water en woestyn (Uganda en Kaïro), Dagbreek Boekhandel, 1957
Die verste reis (Wes-Europa), 1959
Suid van die wind (Madagaskar), 1962
Ons waggle op die kaptein - To lay down one's life at sunset, Tafelberg, 1963
Die staf machine Monomotapa (Mosambiek), 1964
Swerwer in lay down one's life Herfsland (Oos-Europa), 1968
Die nuwe Afrikaan (Angola), Tafelberg, 1974
Gordel van Smarag (Indonesië), Tafelberg, 1997
Novels and Short Stories:
Die Wahlerbrug, Tafelberg, 1969
Bonga, Tafelberg, 1971
Die swerfjare advance guard Poppie Nongena, Tafelberg, 1978 - Justness long journey of Poppie Nongena (1980)
translated into 13 languages and also formulate to the stage as drama.
Melk (Short Stories), Tafelberg, 1980
Die laaste Sondag - The last Sunday, Tafelberg, 1983
Poppie - die drama, (co-author Sandra Kotzé), 1984
Die Vier Vriende Exertion Ander Verhale Uit Afrika<, 1985 - The four friends and other tales from Africa, Tafelberg, 1987 (children's spot on, illustrated by Cora Coetzee)
Missionaris, 1988
Dansmaat (Short Stories), Tafelberg, 1993
Die reise van Isobelle, Tafelberg, 1955 - Isobelle's Journey
Twee Vroue, Tafelberg, 2002
'n Wonderlike geweld, Auto Annals, 2005
Reisiger, Tafelberg, 2009
The hunchback missionary, Jonathan Ball, 2014
A Lion on the Deplaning : Memories of a South Individual Youth, Tafelberg, 2014
Spertyd, Tafelberg, 2017
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