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F A Venter
1916-1997
Author of historical novels, short stories and youth books
Wrote popular fiction under these pseudonyms:
Meiring Fouché, Elske te Water, René Stegmann and Marius de Jongh
François Alwyn Venter was born on 27 November, 1916, at Hopetown. He attended
school in Vioolskraal, Strydenburg and Hopetown and studied at the University
of Stellenbosch.
F A Venter worked as a journalist in Cape Town, Windhoek and in Johannesburg
until 1960, when he moved to a farm near Kenhardt. Ten years later he began
farming near Vredendaal, described in Werfjoernal. When he retired he moved to Strand and became a full time writer.
Awards:
1961: Hertzog Prize for Swart pilgrim and Geknelde land
1981: Doctor honoris causae, University of Port Elizabeth
1996: Andrew Murray Prize for LiteratureList of books
1944/1958: Die geheim van die berg (youth story)
1949: Gebondenes
1950: Eenderse morge
1952: Die drosters
Swart pelgrim
1954: Die tollenaar
1957: Man van Ciréne
1960: Geknelde land
1963: Offerland
1965: Werfjoernal.
Wit oemfaan (youth novel)
1966: Gelofte land
1968: Bedoelde land
1969: Die rentmeesters
1970: Water (comissioned by the Ministry of Water)
1974: Die middag voel na warm as
1979: Kambro-kind
Die koning se wingerd (bilblical novel)
Photo: F A Venter, 1927, SU Archives
www.StellenboschWriters.com © Rosemarie Breuer
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