Radio station RSG has announced that Etienne van Heerden’s novel Die swye van Mario Salviati (in English translation: The Long Silence of Mario Salviati) will be aired shortly, read over a period of months by well-known actor Chris van Niekerk. More info upcoming.
Writers Pieter-Dirk Uys and Lauren Beukes attended Etienne van Heerden’s Master classes for Fiction Writers at UCT’s Creative Writing programme. Here they are pictured with the class of 2014.
Etienne van Heerden visited Kowloon and Hong Kong Island in July 2014, researching a novel he is currently working on.
The Dutch translation of Klimtol will be published in September 2014 in Amsterdam (Podium Publishers).
As editor of LitNet and LitNet Akademies, Etienne van Heerden is curating his third online writer’s conference, the first being Briewe deur die lug in 2000, with authors such as Breyten Breytenbach and Jakes Gerwel participating. The proceedings were published in Briewe deur die lug (Tafelberg Publishers). The second multilingual conference, Young Voices, was opened in 2011 by Nelson Mandela, and authors such as Niq Mhlongo, Sonja Loots and Lauren Beukes participated. The third conference is now running and called Poolshoogte, which means ‘checking the lay of the land’. Twenty years after the advent of democracy, Afrikaans academics, authors, translators, publishers and book journalists weigh in.
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Novelists Etienne van Heerden and Deon Meyer will be at the 5th annual Schreiner Karoo Writers Festival in Cradock, 24 to 26 July 2014. Click here for more information.
Article in the Cape daily Die Burger
The winners of the Media24 Boeke Awards were announced on Friday 6 June in Cape Town.
Photo: Etienne van Heerden (WA Hofmeyr Award), SA Partridge (MER Award), Dominique Botha (Jan Rabie Rapport Award), Linda Rhode (MER Award) and Irina Filatova (Recht Malan Award)
“Op die kortlys van die UJ-prys vir skeppende skryfwerk in Afrikaans sê swaargewigte in die Afrikaanse letterkunde mekaar die stryd aan.”
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