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Poem: nagpsalm Photos of the launch of Agaat at Protea Bookshop

Marlene van Niekerk

Poet and author of short stories and novels
Professor at the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, University of Stellenbosch

Marlene van Niekerk was born on 10 November 1954, on the farm Tygerhoek near Caledon. She attended school in Riviersonderend and Stellenbosch, where she matriculated from Hoërskool Bloemhof.
She studied Languages and Philosophy at Stellenbosch University and obtained a MA with the thesis: Die aard en belang van die literêre vormgewing in 'Also sprach Zarathustra' in 1978.
At university she wrote three plays for the lay theatre. In 1979 she moved to Germany to join theatres in Stuttgart and Mainz as apprentice for directing. From 1980 - 1985 she continued her studies of philosophy in Holland and obtained a Drs with a thesis on the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Paul Ricoeur: "Taal en mythe: een structuralistische en een hermeneutische benadering."
Back in South Africa she lectured in Philosophy at the University of Zululand, and later at Unisa. Afterwards she was lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of Witwatersrand.
Marlene van Niekerk is now Professor at the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, Stellenbosch University.

(Triomf) Dit was van ons vertalings wat die beste ontvang is, die meeste geresenseer is en die beste resensies ontvang het. En dit in 'n tyd waarin vertalings ál meer met plaaslike treffers moet meeding.
Isobel Dixon

Triomf

Agaat (English)

Memorandum: 'n Verhaal met prente

Memorandum: A story with pictures