Author: Etienne
Dutch translation of ‘Klimtol’
The Dutch translation of Klimtol will be published in September 2014 in Amsterdam (Podium Publishers).
Online conference
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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Etienne van Heerden at the 5th annual Schreiner Karoo Writers Festival
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.
Etienne van Heerden won the WA Hofmeyr Award for ‘Klimtol’
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)
Gauteng daily ‘Beeld’ on the UJ Prize for literature shortlist
“Op die kortlys van die UJ-prys vir skeppende skryfwerk in Afrikaans sê swaargewigte in die Afrikaanse letterkunde mekaar die stryd aan.”
Click here to read the article online.
‘Klimtol’ shortlisted for UJ Prize
Klimtol shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize for Literature 2013
Cape daily ‘Die Burger’ on the WA Hofmeyr Award’s shortlist
“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.”
‘Klimtol’ nominated for the ‘Huisgenoot’ Tempo Award
Klimtol has been nominated, together with five other novels, for the Huisgenoot Tempo Award for best novel in 2014. Vote here!
Essay on ‘Klimtol’
Sociologist Desmond Painter writes an essay on the theory of play in Klimtol. Read it here.