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Michiel Heyns
Michiel Heyns was born on 2 December 1943 in Stellenbosch. He went to school in Thaba Nchu,
He has written four novels since The Children’s Day was translated into Afrikaans as Verkeerdespruit: These are: The Reluctant Passenger, The Typewriter’s Tale, Bodies Politic, Lost Ground, and his most recent novel, Invisible Furies published in 2012. All are published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. He has also become renowned as a translator, and was awarded the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, for his translation of Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat, where it was the first translated book ever to win. This translation also won him the Sol Plaatje Award for Translating
In 2003 he taught as a visiting professor at the Extras Reviews, News & Interviews: |