Etienne van Heerden, together with academics from Europe and South Africa, contributed to a festschrift in honour of University of Leiden’s Professor Eep Francken, who is retiring in 2014. Van Heerden was the first Resident Writer from Africa at the University of Leiden and at the time delivered the Albert Verwey lectures. The Festschrift is called Zo ver & zo dichtbij and was published by the Zuid-Afrikahuis. It contains the Dutch version of Van Heerden’s short story “Gifkaroo”.