Christiaan Bakkes

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Christiaan Bakkes as Christiaan Mathy Bakkes (born August 3, 1965 in Vredenburg ) is a South African writer and conservationist .

Life

Christiaan Bakkes was born in Vredenburg in 1965 as the youngest son of four children of the historian Cas and the writer Margaret Bakkes . His brother C. Johan Bakkes is a lecturer in management at the University of Western Cape and also an author. In 1983 Christiaan Bakkes enrolled at the Pro Arte Art School in Pretoria .

In February 1994, a serious accident involving the young ranger Bakkes in the Kruger National Park caught public attention. In an attack by two crocodiles while swimming in a pond near Timbavati , he lost his left arm up to the elbow joint , but not his affection for the African wilderness, which he then illustrated in personal reports from his alter ego Mathys Stoffel . The left-hander first had to learn to write again and would first write his first reports by hand before someone could write for him on a computer. He even took up what was previously very important to him later. After his full recovery, which lasted until 1996, he traveled for five months with his backpack from Cape Town along the west coast to Namibia , Zambia and Malawi across Africa . In Zambia he fell ill with malaria , but received the necessary medical care in Malawi and at least did not have the dreaded diarrhea there . Despite breaking his hand, he continued to travel to experience the Serengeti . While he was traveling through Uganda on a boat , he received the news that he could work for the WWF in the Kaokoveld in Namibia for the next three years . Following this activity, he managed safaris to the Skeleton Coast and Damaraland for a travel company , which were committed to an ecological program.

In his biographical work In Bushveld and Desert: A Game Ranger's Life , published in 2008 , which is partly based on earlier works and was first translated from Afrikaans into English, Chris Bakkes reports on these years. In 2008 he and his wife Emsie Verwey, whom he married in 2003, worked for safari companies, he as a guide and manager, where he also led mountain gorilla safaris to Uganda.

Bakkes emphasizes that his literary work is not only dedicated to South Africa, but to the entire African continent: “Africa is my continent. Ek voel tuis in Namibië, Uganda en Mozambiek, Zambië en Tanzanië. Ek beperk my never dead Suid-Afrika never. Ek is an African in the goods sin van die woord. “- Africa is my continent. I feel at home in Namibia, Uganda and Mozambique , Zambia and Tanzania . I don't limit myself to South Africa. I am an African in the true sense of the word.

Works

  • The Lang Pad van Stoffel Mathysen . Human & Rousseau 1998, ISBN 978-0798137805 .
  • Stoffel into the wilderness . Human & Rousseau 2000, ISBN 978-0798140676 .
  • Skuilplek . Human & Rousseau 2002, ISBN 9780798142298 .
  • Stoffel by die afdraaipad , Human & Rosseau 2004, ISBN 978-0798144308 . (Nominated for M-Net literary prize for short format texts, 2005)
  • Stoffel se veldnotas . Human & Rosseau 2007, ISBN 978-0798148146 .
  • In Bushveld and Desert: A Game Ranger's Life . Translated into English by Elsa Silke. NB Publishers, 1st edition 2008, 2nd edition 2010, ISBN 978-0798149280 .
  • Stoffel in Africa (2010)
  • Stoffel op safari (2012)
  • Bushveld, desert and dogs: a game ranger's life (2012)
  • Krokodil aan my skouer - Stoffel toe en nou (2014)
  • Stoffel: the best stories (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nb.book.co.za ( Memento from January 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Homebru 2007: 10 Quick questions to Christiaan Bakkes: www.litnet.co.za, May 29, 2007 (English / Afrikaans)
  3. ↑ Review on: www. Republikein.com.na (Afrikaans)
  4. ↑ Nominated for the SATI Prize for Outstanding Translation and Dictionaries, 2009
  5. ↑ Review on www.witness.co.za
personal data
SURNAME Bakkes, Christiaan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bakkes, Chris; Bakkes, Christiaan Mathy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Vredenburg