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Jeanne Goosen (born 13 July 1938, Cape Town) is a South African journalist, poet and writer. She wrote short stories, children's books, plays and award-winning novels.
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She studied at the University of Cape Town.
Jeanne Goosen is one of the most versatile and most controversial writers in Afrikaans. She debuted in 1971 as a poet with Owl fly away, followed by Orrelpunte. Especially as a writer of prose she has attained a prominent place in African literature.
In We are not all like that, (translated into English by André Brink) life is illuminated by a white family from the lower middle class in the fifties, which gets involved in all sorts of problems. It is told from the perspective of the daughter, Gertie. The appearance has caused a stir in South Africa because of the attention it drew to the existence of 'poor white'.
The novel Daantjie Dreamer (1993) is about a family from the fifties. The narrator is the daughter Bubbles, who wants to free herself from the environment in which she grew up. Through her conversations with her philosophically inclined brother Daantjie Dreamer, she comes to new insights about political matters and she is aware of her own identity.