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Wilma Stockenström

Born

in Napier, South Africa

August 07, 1933

Genre

Fiction

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Wilma Johanna Stockenström is a South African writer, translator, and actor. She writes in the Afrikaans language, and along with Sheila Cussons, Elisabeth Eybers, Antjie Krog and Ina Rousseau, she is one of the leading female writers in the language.

She was born in Napier in the Overberg district. After finishing high school, she studied at Stellenbosch University, where she obtained a BA in Drama in 1952. She moved to Pretoria in 1954, and married the Estonian linguist Ants Kirsipuu. She has lived in Cape Town since 1993.

She is one of a handful of writers to have won the Hertzog prize in two different categories. She won it first for poetry in 1977 and then for fiction in 1991. Her 1981 novel Die kremetartekspedisie was translated into En ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 203 ratings · 30 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

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“With bitterness, then. But that I have forbidden myself. With ridicule, then, which is more affable, which keeps itself transparent and could not care less; and like a bird into a nest I can slip back into a treetrunk and laugh to myself. And keep quiet too, perhaps just to keep quiet so as to dream outward, for the seventh sense is sleep.”
― Wilma Stockenström, The Expedition to the Baobab Tree

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“Elbette bir insanın ne kadar uzun bir süre devam edebileceğini sık sık merak ediyorum. Bir yerlerde senin için giderek daha belirginleşen bir sınır çizgisi olmalı ve sen tıpkı uykunun gri tonlarına yaklaşır gibi o çizgiye uzanıyor olmalısın. Sonra da gri bir rüyaya. Öyle bir rüya ki tıpkı daha küçük bir ölümde olduğu gibi orada iyi ve kötüyle karşılaşırsın. O ayrılmaz ikili. Ölüme meydan okuyan ikizler.”
― Wilma Stockenström , The Expedition to the Baobab Tree

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“Like the wild animals I make my paths. This conclusion came later. Like the redbuck, no, not like the redbuck and the zebra, not like the buffalo or herd animals of whatever kind that supplement each other's senses and confront crises together and survive what alone they would be too weak for, and that yet fall prey as individuals, and yet die alone, each in his time. I tread my own track, so clearly purposeful that I know I have already dwelt a long time in these pars, or rather there has never been any question of dwelling. Rather I should say: I too survive here, but I rely on myself, and even on the days when it feels as if everywhere under the earth there are snake-eggs lying, even then I have to fend for myself and try not to tread on them.”
― Wilma Stockenström, The Expedition to the Baobab Tree

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