Author: Etienne

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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Klimtol shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize for Literature 2013

“Drie Tafelberg-boeke kom vanjaar vir die WA Hofmeyr-prys vir fiksie teen mekaar te staan.

“Op die kortlys ding Kerneels Breytenbach en Deon Opperman se Donkerland mee met Etienne van Heerden se Klimtol en Eben Venter se Wolf, wolf. Al die wenners van die Media24-boekpryse word op 6 Junie bekend gemaak.”

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Klimtol has been nominated, together with five other novels, for the Huisgenoot Tempo Award for best novel in 2014. Vote here!

Sociologist Desmond Painter writes an essay on the theory of play in Klimtol. Read it here.

Etienne van Heerden has been invited to the Netherlands and Belgium for the Week of the Novel
in September 2014. More particulars here.

Klimtol by Etienne van Heerden has been shortlisted for the WA Hofmeyr Award, along with Eben Venter’s Wolf, wolf and Donkerland by Kerneels Breytenbach and Deon Opperman.