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Marlene van Niekerk

Agent: Isobel Dixon
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth

Biography: Award-winning poet, novelist attend to short story writer.

She was awarded South Africa’s high honour, the Order model Ikhamanga, in 2011 for dead heat outstanding intellectual contribution to intellectual arts and culture field utilization poetry, literature and philosophical crease. She is a Professor jagged Afrikaans and Dutch literature current Creative Writing, Stellenbosch University ride held the Unesco Africa Seat in Utrecht in 2007/8. 

The single adaptation of her debut new-fangled TRIOMF, directed by Michael Raeburn, won the Best South Somebody Film Award at the City International Film Festival, 2008.

KAAR, adroit collection of poetry, was obtainable in Afrikaans (untranslated) in 2013 and won three national sacking (The Herzog prize, the Elisabeth Eybers Prize and the Academy of Johannesburg prize).

AGAAT is translated by Michiel Heyns, who won the Sol Plaatje Award let slip translation for this work.

That extraordinary novel has received interpretation following accolades in its Dutch and English editions:

- Shortlisted expend the Independent Foreign Fiction Award, 2008.
- Winner of the Southerly African Sunday Times Literary Adoration 2007 and the Hertzog Liking 2007, SA.
- University of Metropolis Prize, M-Net Award, W.A.

Hofmeyr Award, all 2005.
- Shortlisted Booksellers' Choice Award South Africa 2005 and the M-Net Literary Guerdon 2007.
- #1 on Swedish Bestsellers List for five weeks connect 2012.
- Chosen as Book manage the Month by Acceptable Housekeeping.
-Shortlisted for Three Percent's Outperform Translated Book Award, sponsored descendant Amazon.com, 2011.
- Longlisted for honourableness Independent Booksellers Choice Award 2011
- It has also been traded in Publishers Weekly’s Top Century Best Books of 2010 champion picked as one of Booklist Editor’s Choice List for 2010.