Author: Etienne

Susan Bloemhof’s series of paintings of writers such as Wilma Stockenström, Breyten Breytenbach and others will form part of the group exhibition Uitdagend skeppend at the Breytenbach Gallery, Wellington, 15 September to 19 October 2017.

HemelBesem and Coenie de Villiers will be performing at Darryl David’s Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée at the Buffelshoek Lodge and the Victoria Hotel, Cradock. More details here.

After retiring from the University of Cape Town in December 2016, Etienne van Heerden is now emeritus professor and guided his last MA Creative Writing students through their examination processes in 2017. All three these students developed novel manuscripts under his supervision and all three received distinctions for their dissertations. Beyers de Vos, Mike Hardaker and Wilken Calitz. Beyers and Mike wrote in English, and Wilken in Afrikaans.

Presenting a workshop on beginnings and making it strange at the Bloemfonteinse Skrywersvereniging, Bloemfontein.

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At the Open Book Festival, Cape Town, Antonin Varenne, Etienne van Heerden and David Bezmozgis will speak about the journeys at the heart of their novels in the company of Elmari Rautenbach. 8/09/2017,  12.00–13.00, R45. Click here for more information.

At the Open Book Festival, Cape Town, Irna van Zyl will be in conversation with SJ Naudé and Etienne van Heerden. Homecoming Centre Workshop (15A Buitenkant Street), 10/09/2017,  12.00–13.00, R45. Click here for more information.

“Van Heerden bou in hierdie roman met ’n uitnemende verbeeldingskrag, kennis en vernuf ’n wêreld wat vir jou nuwe perspektiewe op ou vraagstukke open. Die wêreld van Charlie Oeng is ’n waardige toevoeging tot ’n gedugte oeuvre.”

Read the review here.

Die wêreld van Charlie Oeng on sale in the author’s favourite neighbourhood bookshop, Verbatim, Dorp Street, Stellenbosch.