Lettie Viljoen

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Occupation Novelist Children 2 daughters Language Afrikaans Name Lettie Viljoen		Nationality South African Role Author Spouse Andries Gouws Notable awards Hertzog Prize

Born 14 February 1948 (age 76) Johannesburg, South Africa ( 1948-02-14 ) Alma mater University of Stellenbosh Education University of the Witwatersrand Books To hell with Cronje, Buller se plan

Lettie Viljoen was a pseudonym of the South African author Ingrid Winterbach, who primarily writes in Afrikaans. She lives in Jamestown, Stellenbosch.

Life & education

Winterbach was born in Johannesburg in 1948. She got her early education from Florida High School, Johannesburg and studied Afrikaans, Dutch and Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, and went on to a postgraduate degree in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of Stellenbosch under D.J. Opperman. She went on to work as a teacher, a journalist, a Fine Arts lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch and a lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of Natal. She has been a full-time writer and painter since 2002.

As Lettie Viljoen

1984 Klaaglied vir Koos

1986 Erf

1990 Belemmering

1993 Karolina Ferreira (published in English as The Elusive Moth, 2005)

1996 Landskap met vroue en slang

As Ingrid Winterbach

1999 Buller se plan

2002 Niggie (published in English as To Hell with Cronje, 2007)

2006 Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat (published in English as The Book of Happenstance, 2008)

2010 Die Benederyk

2012 Die aanspraak van lewende wesens

Awards

1994 M-Net Literary Awards – Karolina Ferreira

1994 Old Mutual Literary Award – Karolina Ferreira

2000 WA Hofmeyr Prize – Buller se plan

2004 Hertzog Prize for Prose – Niggie

2007 WA Hofmeyr Prize – Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat

2007 M-Net Literary Awards – Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat

2007 University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing – Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat

2010 South African Literary Award for literary translation for the translation of Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat

2012 C.L. Engelbrecht Prize for Literature – Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat

2012 NB-Uitgewers Groot Romankompetisie – Die aanspraak van lewende wesens (Human & Rousseau)

2013 M-Net Literary Awards - Die aanspraak van lewende wesens

2013 Hertzog Prize for Prose – Die aanspraak van lewende wesens

2013 WA Hofmeyr Prize (Media24 Books Literary Awards) – Die aanspraak van lewende wesens

References

Lettie Viljoen Wikipedia

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Contents

Life & education

As Lettie Viljoen

As Ingrid Winterbach

Awards

References