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Marlene van Niekerk

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Marlene van Niekerk is a South African author who is best known for her novel Triomf. [1]

26 relations: Afrikaans, Afrikaners, Apartheid, Caledon, Western Cape, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Dutch language, Hertzog Prize, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Ingrid Jonker Prize, Johannesburg, List of African writers by country, Mainz, Memorandum, Michiel Heyns, Paul Ricœur, Riviersonderend, Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation, Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch University, Stuttgart, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Tin House, University of South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Zululand, Western Cape.

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

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Afrikaners

Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Caledon, Western Cape

Caledon is a town in the Overberg region in the Western Cape province of South Africa, located about east of Cape Town next to mineral-rich hot springs.

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Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908, Brussels – 30 October 2009, Paris) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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Hertzog Prize

The Hertzog Prize or (Hertzogprys) is an annual award given to Afrikaans-language writers by the South African Academy for the Sciences and Arts (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns), formerly the South African Academy for Language, Literature and Arts (Zuid-Afrikaanse Akademie voor Wetenschap, Letteren en Kunst).

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Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (1990–2015) was a British literary award.

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Ingrid Jonker Prize

The Ingrid Jonker Prize is a literary prize for the best debut work of Afrikaans or English poetry.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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List of African writers by country

This is a list of prominent and notable writers from Africa.

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Mainz

Satellite view of Mainz (south of the Rhine) and Wiesbaden Mainz (Mogontiacum, Mayence) is the capital and largest city of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany.

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Memorandum

A memorandum (abbrev.: memo; from Latin memorandum est, "It must be remembered (that)...") is a note, document or other communication that helps the memory by recording events or observations on a topic such as may be used in a business office.

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Michiel Heyns

Michiel Heyns (born 2 December 1943) is a South African author, translator and academic.

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Paul Ricœur

Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur (27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics.

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Riviersonderend

Riviersonderend is a village in the Overberg region of the Western Cape, South Africa, about east of Cape Town.

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Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation

The Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation is a bi-annual prize, first awarded in 2007, for translation of prose or poetry into English from any of the other South African official languages.

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Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch Thomas Baldwin, 1852.

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Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch University (Universiteit Stellenbosch) is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Stuttgart

Stuttgart (Swabian: italics,; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen, also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a comedic philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885 and published between 1883 and 1891.

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Tin House

Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City.

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University of South Africa

The University of South Africa (UNISA) is the largest university on the African continent and attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa.

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University of the Witwatersrand

The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is a multi-campus South African public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg.

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University of Zululand

The University of Zululand (also known as Unizulu) is the only comprehensive tertiary educational institution north of the Tugela River in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Western Cape

The Western Cape (Wes-Kaap, Ntshona Koloni) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_van_Niekerk

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