Just Venter
Ebenhaezer Venter (born September 29, 1954 in Burgersdorp , South African Union ) is a South African writer .
Life
Ebenhaezer Venter grew up on a sheep farm and attended Gray College in Bloemfontein . He was drafted into the military and was also used in Angola . He studied at the Noordwes-Universiteit and the Universiteit van Port Elizabeth (UPE) and received an MA in philosophy with a thesis on Max Horkheimer . Venter worked as a journalist in Johannesburg . Because of the political emergency in South Africa, he went to Australia for a time in 1986, where he worked as a cook. In 1995 he returned to Prince Albert .
Venter has published short stories, short stories and novels in Afrikaans and a cookbook. Venter was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar in 2006 . He was invited to write workshops at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and the University of Kyoto .
Venter has been awarded the WA Hofmeyr Prize several times . In 2010 he received the M-Net Literary Award for literature in Afrikaans and the ATKV-Prosaprys of the Afrikaanse Taalen Kultuurvereniging for Santa Gamka , and the English translation of Trencherman was on the long list of the South African Sunday Times . The novel follows the tradition of Joseph Conrad's story Heart of Darkness and JM Coetzee's dystopian novel Disgrace .
Works
- Witblitz . Emmarentia: Taurus, 1986
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Foxtrot van the vleiseters . Cape Town: Table Mountain, 1993
- Burenfoxtrott: Roman . From the Afrikaans by Stefanie Schäfer . Hildesheim: Claassen, 1996 ISBN 3-546-00105-2
- Ek stamel, ek sterwe . Cape Town: Queillerie, 1996
- My sympathy, Cerise . Cape Town: Queillerie, 1999
- Twaalf . Cape Town: Queillerie, 2000
- Enthusiastic . Cape Town: Table Mountain, 2003
- Horrelpoot . Cape Town: Table Mountain, 2006
- Santa Gamka . Cape Town: Table Mountain, 2009
- Brouhaha: verstommings, naakstudies en wenresepte . Cape Town: Table Mountain, 2010
- Wolf, wolf . Cape Town: Table Mountain, 2013
- Groen soos the hemel daarbo . Cape Town: Table Mountain, 2017
Web links
- Literature by and about Eben Venter in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eben Venter , at Verlag Tafelberg (en / af)
- ^ Gillian Slovo : A return to darkness . Review, in: Financial Times , April 2, 2016, p. 10
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Venter, just |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Venter, Ebenhaezer (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burgersdorp |