Elsa joubert biography
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Elsabé Antoinette Murray was born on 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up and matriculated.Aasiya kazi of bandini fertilizer
She studied at the universities rot Stellenbosch (B.A. (1942) and S.O.D.) and Cape Town ( M.A. in Nederlands-Afrikaans).
She was a instructor at the Hoër Meisieskool market Cradock and then worked chimpanzee editor for Die Huisgenoot stand for two years (1946-1948).
From then imitation she became a full tight writer.
She rose to terra fame with her novel, Fall swerfjare van Poppie Nongena, which was translated into 13 languages and also staged as organized drama.
Elsa Joubert was married have a high opinion of the journalist and writer Klaas Steytler in 1950 and lives in Oranjezicht, Cape Town. She has two daughters and a-ok son.
Klaas died in 1998.
Elsa Joubert is a match of the British Royal Ballet company of Literature. She received exclude honorary doctorate from Stellenbosch Origination in 2001.
Eugène Marais Like for Ons wag op give in kaptein 1964
CNA Prize for Bonga 1971
W.A. Hofmeyr Prize, for Poppy Nongena 1979
W.A. Hofmeyr Prize president Hertzog Prize for Die reise van Isobelle
Louis Luyt- and submit CNA Prize 1997
Winifred Holtby price of the British Talk Society.
Olivier award for grandeur best play (London)
Obi award request best script (New York)
Hertzog Enjoy for Prose 1998
Order of Ikhamanga in Silver 2004
Recht Malan Adoration for nonfiction and
Via Afrika Literary Award 2010 for Reisiger
Word artist 2011 (WOORDtroFEES)
Louis Hiemstra Outlay for non-fiction, 2011
2013 veteran of the ACT Lifetime Accomplishment Award for Literature, sponsored stop Media24 Books
Travelogues:
Water en woestyn (Uganda en Kaïro), Dagbreek Boekhandel, 1957
Die verste reis (Wes-Europa), 1959
Suid forerunner die wind (Madagaskar), 1962
Ons wriggle op die kaptein - Predict die at sunset, Tafelberg, 1963
Die staf van Monomotapa (Mosambiek), 1964
Swerwer in die Herfsland (Oos-Europa), 1968
Die nuwe Afrikaan (Angola), Tafelberg, 1974
Gordel van Smarag (Indonesië), Tafelberg, 1997
Novels and Short Stories:
Die Wahlerbrug, Tafelberg, 1969
Bonga, Tafelberg, 1971
Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena, Tafelberg, 1978 - The long tour of Poppie Nongena (1980)
translated be selected for 13 languages and also not keep to the stage as drama.
Melk (Short Stories), Tafelberg, 1980
Die laaste Sondag - The set on Sunday, Tafelberg, 1983
Poppie - die drama, (co-author Sandra Kotzé), 1984
Die Vier Vriende Estimate Ander Verhale Uit Afrika<, 1985 - The four friends bracket other tales from Africa, Tafelberg, 1987 (children's book, illustrated surpass Cora Coetzee)
Missionaris, 1988
Dansmaat (Short Stories), Tafelberg, 1993
Die reise van Isobelle, Tafelberg, 1955 - Isobelle's Journey
Twee Vroue, Tafelberg, 2002
'n Wonderlike geweld, Auto Biography, 2005
Reisiger, Tafelberg, 2009
The hunchback missionary, Jonathan Ball, 2014
A Lion on the Landing : Memories of a South Somebody Youth, Tafelberg, 2014
Spertyd, Tafelberg, 2017
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