Author: Etienne

The great Athol Fugard offered a Master Class in Etienne van Heerden’s MA Creative Writing seminar series, UCT.

Lien Botha (Wonderboom) and Debbie Loots (Split). Both developed their novels working with Etienne van Heerden as supervisor in the University of Cape Town’s Creative Writing programme. Both published by NB Publishers, 2015.

Etienne van Heerden was runner-up in the Great Novel Competition. The first prize of R200 000 went to Dan Sleigh for his manuscript Die laaste goeie man. The novels will be published later this year or in 2016.

TOORWOORDE (10:30 Sat 25 July) starts with a screening of the Karoo documentary (which also features Deon Meyer). Then there’s loads of time to kuier with Etienne van Heerden and Coenie de Villiers, good friends and extraordinary creative talents. E-book on cradockfestivbalbookins@gmail.com.

“Each of us had a dream,” singer-writer Koos Kombuis writes in Paul Roos Gymnasium 150, a publication marking the 150th year of this Stellenbosch school. Here, wearing a school cap, he sits with old classmate Etienne van Heerden during a visit back to the school. Etienne van Heerden contributed an essay to the book as well.

The winner for the Great Novel Competition will be announced on May the 22nd, 2015. The shortlist of four consists of manuscripts by novelists Dan Sleigh, Marinda van Zyl, Alexander Strachan and Etienne van Heerden. The competition offers a first prize of R200 000.

In the TV series A Different World presenter Coenie de Villiers takes novelists Deon Meyer and Etienne van Heerden to the Karoo. The settings of novels such as Ancestral Voices, Kikuyu, The Long Silence of Mario Salviati and In Love’s Place are visited. This is the promo video of the programme to be broadcast on Sunday May 10th , at 20h00 on DSTV Channel 144.

“Klimtol is een rijk boek, een boek met diverse hoofdpaadjes en veel kurkentrekkerpaadjes.’ Een prachtige, sfeervolle roman.”

Read the complete review by Evert Woutersen in Literair Nederland.

Etienne van Heerden’s novel Die swye van Mario Salviati (in English translation: The Long Silence of Mario Salviati) is now being aired on RSG, read over a period of months by well-known actor Chris van Niekerk. Listen to the reading on Monday to Friday at 19:20 on RSG.

Klimtol is one of three novels nominated for the fiction category of the kykNET-Rapport Boekpryse. The winner of the R200 000 award will be announced in Cape Town on 21 November. The other shortlisted novels are Valsrivier by Dominique Botha and Wolf, wolf by Eben Venter.