What do you think?
Rate this book
Monsterverse
Afrikaans
- GenresPoetry
63 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1984
2 people want to read
About the author
Wilma Stockenström
16 books7 followersWilma 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 English by the Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee under the title The Expedition to the Baobab Tree. She has also been translated into Dutch, French, Hebrew, German, Italian and Swedish.
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 English by the Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee under the title The Expedition to the Baobab Tree. She has also been translated into Dutch, French, Hebrew, German, Italian and Swedish.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
No one has reviewed this book yet.