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Dalene Matthee

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Dalene Matthee


Born
in Riversdale, South Africa
October 13, 1938

Died
February 20, 2005

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Genre
Literature & Fiction


Dalene Matthee (nee Scott) matriculated in 1957 and went on to study music at a conservatorium in Oudtshoorn as well as at the Holy Cross Covent in Graaff-Reinet.

Before gaining fame and wide acclaim for her first "forest novel", she also wrote stories for magazines as well as two popular novels - ’n Huis vir Nadia (A House for Nadia) (1982) and Petronella van Aarde, burgemeester (Petronella van Aarde, Mayor) (1983).

Kringe in ’n bos (Circles in a forest) (1984), a novel about the extermination of the elephants and the exploitation of the woodcutters of the Knysna forest, was an international success. Two other highly successful "forest novels" followed: Fiela se Kind (Fiela's Child) in 1985 and Moerbeibos (The Mulberry Forest) in 1987. Fiela ...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 8,438 ratings · 413 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors
Kringe in 'n Bos
4.32 avg rating — 3,097 ratings — published 1984 — 37 editions
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Fiela se Kind
4.06 avg rating — 3,058 ratings — published 1985 — 45 editions
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Toorbos
4.11 avg rating — 601 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions
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Pieternella van die Kaap
4.09 avg rating — 487 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
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Die uitgespoeldes
3.79 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions
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Susters van Eva
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 246 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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Brug van die esels
3.71 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions
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'n Huis vir Nadia
3.52 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions
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Die Judasbok
3.80 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions
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Petronella van Aarde, Burge...
3.70 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1983
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Series by Dalene Matthee

Kringe in 'n Bos Fiela se Kind Toorbos
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“But memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all.”
― Dalene Matthee, Fiela's Child
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“...unhappiness was something you got used to or something that passed.”
― Dalene Matthee, Fiela's Child
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“The power of a woman was different, he decided: sly, fearless, changeable as the moods of the sea, but he knew instinctively that that was the power against which his own would be measured.”
― Dalene Matthee, Fiela's Child
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Please choose a book for group read of October 2013

A dry white season (write-in)
 
  3 votes, 37.5%

 
  2 votes, 25.0%

Dalene Matthee The day the swallows spoke
 
  2 votes, 25.0%

 
  1 vote, 12.5%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

My African home- Eliza Feilden
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

8 total votes
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