{"id":761,"date":"2020-10-18T21:53:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T21:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/?p=761"},"modified":"2024-02-22T23:51:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T23:51:37","slug":"marlene-van-niekerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/marlene-van-niekerk\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlene van Niekerk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2008 history was made in respect of the Helgaard Steyn Award for Literature, as the prize and prize money (of R150 000) were shared, for the first time, by two authors. Both the works received multiple South African prizes and international acclaim since their release in 2004.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u201cAgaat is \u2019n belangrike bydrae tot en grensverskuiwing binne die Afrikaanse prosa. Veral om die deeglike ontginning van die plaasroman, boonop deur \u2018n vrou.\u201d <\/i>Joan Hambidge, Volksblad <\/i>(2004)<\/p>

Michiel Heyns translated the novel into English, under the title The Way of the Women<\/i>. In 2008 it was on the short-list of six books nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and featured on the short-list of \u201cPick of the Paperbacks\u201d of the British Newspaper, The Telegraph<\/i>. It\u2019s been described as a beautifully written novel and has also been translated into Dutch.<\/p>

Awards for Agaat: C.L. Engelbrecht Prize for Literature (2007); Hertzog Prize for Prose (2007); M-Net Prize, W.A. Hofmeyr Prize and University of Johannesburg Prize (2005).<\/p>

Marlene van Niekerk was born on the farm Tygerhoek near Caledon on 10 November, 1954. She attended school at Riviersonderend and Stellenbosch, where she matriculated at Bloemhof High School. She studied philosophy, languages and literature at the universities of Stellenbosch, Amsterdam and the Witwatersrand.<\/p>

Her debut volume of poetry, Sprokkelster<\/i>, was published in 1977 and was awarded both the Eug\u00e8ne Marais Prize and the Ingrid Jonker Prize. Her first novel, Triomf<\/i>, was published in 1995 and was awarded, amongst others, the Noma Prize for the best publication from Africa. Ten years later Agaat<\/i> was published and it won six awards, inter alia the Hertzog Prize for Prose (2004). The English translation of Agaat<\/i> received the Sunday Times<\/i> Literary Award.<\/p>

Van Niekerk is currently a professor in Creative Writing at the University of Stellenbosch.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Other awards<\/i><\/h3>

1977<\/strong> Eug\u00e8ne Marais-prys \u2013 Sprokkelster<\/i><\/h4>

1978<\/strong> Ingrid Jonker-prys \u2013 Sprokkelster<\/i><\/h4>

1995<\/strong> For Triomf<\/i>: the Noma Prize for publications in\nAfrica; the CNA Prize and M-Net Prize<\/h4>

2007<\/strong> Sunday Times Literary Award \u2013 for the English translation (by Michiel Heyns) of Agaat<\/i><\/h4>

2007<\/strong> Afrikaans Onbeperk Award of the KKNK \u2013 for her innovative thinking\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>

2010<\/strong> University of Johannesburg Prize for the Best Creative Writing in Afrikaans \u2013 Die sneeuslaper<\/i><\/h4>

2014<\/strong> Hertzog Prize for Poetry<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Publications<\/i><\/h3>

POETRY<\/h4>

1977<\/strong> Sprokkelster<\/i><\/h4>

1983<\/strong> Groenstaar<\/i><\/h4>

2013<\/strong> Kaar<\/i><\/h4>

PROSE<\/strong><\/h4>

1992<\/strong> Die vrou wat haar verkyker vergeet het<\/i><\/h4>

1995<\/strong> Triomf<\/i><\/h4>

2004<\/strong> Agaat<\/i><\/h4>

2006<\/strong> Memorandum<\/i> (with painting by Adriaan van Zyl)<\/h4>

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Translations<\/i><\/h3>

Die vrou wat haar verkyker vergeet het <\/i>(1992) \u2013 Dutch: De vrouw die haar verrekijker had vergeten<\/i><\/h4>

Triomf <\/i>(1995) \u2013 English (1999), Dutch and French<\/h4>

Memorandum<\/i> (2006) \u2013 English and Dutch<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marlene van Niekerk\u2019s novel tells the life-story of a dying woman and her complex relationship with the domestic worker \/ foster child \/ care-taker. But it is, in fact, also the history of the Afrikaner\u2019s loss of power.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterkunde","category-vorige-wenners"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/M.van-Niekerk-CMYK-scaled.jpeg?fit=996%2C1500&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}