Linda Rode

Author, translator and compiler of children's books

Linda Rode was born on 3 July 1937 at Ladismith, Western Cape.
She matriculated at the Hoërskool Langenhoven in Riversdal in 1954 and
studied at Stellenbosch University, where she obtained an Honours degree in German and a Teacher's Diploma (1963).
She taught school in Calvinia, in Hermannsburg, at the Pionierskool in Worcester (school for the blind) and at Herzlia in Cape Town and works as a free-lance translator for publishers.
Linda is married to Erwin Rode. They live in Bellville and have two children.
Hobbies: Hiking and mountaineering

Awards: 1989: MER Prize for Goue fluit, my storie is uit and Tienie Holloway - medal

Publications:Books:
'n Glimlag kan groei
'n Wors het twee ente
Linda has compiled several collections of children's poems and stories, including:
Stories vir die Vaak
Tick Tock Story Clock
Goue lint, my storie begint, Goue fluit, my storie is uit
Sonroepertjies
Vrede op aarde
Stories suid van die son
amaBali matshona kwelanga - stories South of the sun

Dipale tsa ka borwa ho letsatsi

Co-compiler of:
Keerpunt (Crossing Over), Another Kind of One Nation, Ek, ’n lewende pyl (I, a living arrow).

Click for web page at Tafelberg Publishers

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