Dirk Johannes Opperman

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Diederik "Dirk" Johannes Opperman (born September 29, 1914 near Dundee , Natal , † September 22, 1985 in Stellenbosch ), mostly short D. J. Opperman , was a South African writer who wrote in Afrikaans . He was best known for his poems and dramas .

Opperman studied at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg and the University of Cape Town . He was a teacher in Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg , and later professor at Stellenbosch University (1960–1985). He worked for the magazines Standpunte , a literary magazine, and Huisgenoot , the most important weekly magazine in Afrikaans with a strongly nationalistic orientation at the time. He wrote his work Komas uit'n bamboesstok after a seven-month coma into which he fell as a result of liver disease.

JC Kannemeyer and Ingrid Winterbach are among his students .

In 1942 he married Marié van Reenen, with whom he had three daughters.

Works

  • 1945: holy beeste
  • 1947: Negester or Ninevé
  • 1949: Joernaal van Jorik
  • 1950: Engel uit die klip
  • 1953: Digters van Dertig
  • 1954: Periandros van Korinthe
  • 1956: Blom en baaierd
  • 1956: Vergereg
  • 1959: Wiggelstok
  • 1960: Astrak
  • 1963: Dolosse
  • 1964: Kort reis na Carrara
  • 1964: Kuns-Mis
  • 1968: Voëlvry
  • 1970: Edms. Bpk.
  • 1974: NaaldeKoker
  • 1977: Promise opstelle
  • 1979: The Galeie van Jorik
  • 1979: Komas uit'n bamboesstok
  • 1987: Versamelde poësie
  • 2000: Sonklong oor Africa

Honors

Opperman received the Hertzog Prize four times : for poetry in 1947 (for his first lyrical work Heilige Beeste , 1945) and in 1980 for Komas uit'n bamboesstok and for drama in 1956 and 1969. He also received the WA Hofmeyrprys four times, in 1954 for Periandros van Korinthe , 1956 for Blom en basierd , 1966 for Dolosse and 1980 for Komas uit'n bamboesstok . In 1964 and 1980 he won the CNA Literary Award for Dolosse and Komas uit'n bamboesstok .

He received honorary doctorates from the University of Natal (1968), the University of Stellenbosch (1976), the University of Cape Town (1980) and the University of Pretoria (1982).

In 1975, later President Nelson Mandela , who was then imprisoned, expressed his praise for some of Opperman's works in an Afrikaans letter.

literature

  • JC Kannemeyer : DJ Opperman: 'n biography. Human & Rousseau, 1986.

Web links

  • Portrait at stellenboschwriters.com (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c portrait at stellenboschwriters.com (English), accessed on December 12, 2017
  2. ↑ Facsimile at stellenboschwriters.com (Afrikaans), accessed on July 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Opperman, Dirk Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Opperman, Diederik Johannes; Opperman, DJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Dundee , Natal
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1985
Place of death Stellenbosch