Jan Rabie

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Jan Sebastian Rabie (born November 14, 1920 in George , † November 15, 2001 in Onrusrivier ) was a South African writer . He has been referred to as the "father" of the avant-garde movement of the Sestigers who write in Afrikaans .

Life

Rabie grew up in different parts of the Western Cape . In 1937 he enrolled at the University of Stellenbosch and graduated in 1941 with a bachelor's degree in Afrikaans and Dutch . As a student he published his first poems. He then worked as a teacher in Umtata and Knysna . During this time he was a member of the National Party and the right-wing extremist Ossewabrandwag . In 1944 he moved to Johannesburg to work as a writer. He received a doctoral scholarship for a university in Paris . He lived there for seven years and was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and the ideas of existentialism . At the same time he turned against apartheid . In Paris he also met the painter Marjorie Wallace, whom he married after his return to South Africa in 1955. They lived in Cape Town , where Rabie worked for the South African Broadcasting Corporation and Die Burger newspaper . In 1956 his first book Een-en-twintig was published, which contains 21 short stories in the style of surrealism and existentialism and thus clearly differed from the previous Afrikaans literature. Rabie became a member of the Sestigers, for whom Een-en-twintig was a role model. In 1966 the couple traveled to the USA, Europe and Israel and then lived in Crete for three years . In 1970 they returned to South Africa and from then on lived in Onrusrivier in what is now Overstrand , where Rabie died in 2001.

Rabie was best known for the five-part novel series Bolandia , in which he represented the Boers and the Coloreds of the historic Cape Colony as a community. He also published short stories, poems, books for young people, travelogues, essays and diaries. He also translated around 40 books into Afrikaans, including Albert Camus' L'Étranger .

Awards

  • The Jan Rabie Rapportprys for "the best debut or early work that is characterized by fresh and innovative Afrikaans prose" is awarded annually by the South African media group media24.

Works

Novels

  • 1943: Nog skyn the sterre
  • 1944: Geen somer
  • 1946: Vertrou op môre
  • 1947: The pad na mekaar
  • 1957: Ons, the afgod
  • 1959: The wonder van Afrikaans
  • 1963: Mens-alleen
  • 1965: Kooi
  • 1981: Johanna se storie

Bolandia novels

  • 1964: Eiland voor Afrika
  • 1964: The groot anders-maak
  • 1966: Waar Jy Sterwe
  • 1977: Ark
  • 1985: En oseaan

Volumes of stories

  • 1956: Een-en-twintig
  • 1957: Dakkamer en agterplaas
  • 1966: The roos aan die pels
  • 1980: Versamelverhale

Science fiction

  • 1957: Swart ster oor the Karoo
  • 1961: The great planeet
  • 1971: the hemelblom

Youth books

  • 1960: Twee strandlopers
  • 1975: The seeboek van die sonderkossers

Diaries

  • 1966: In memoriam Ingrid Jonker (as editor)
  • 1998: Paryse dagboek

Essays

  • 1960: The ewolusie van nasionalisme
  • 1965: Rooi
  • 1966: Polemics (1957–1965)
  • 1982: 'n Boek vir Onrus
  • 1989: Buidel

Travelogues

  • 1947: Great journey
  • 1970: Klipwieg
  • 1971: 'n Haan vir Eloúnda
  • 1977: Tuinprovinsie Natal
  • 2004: Hutspot (edited by JC Kannemeyer )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Portrait of Rabies on the Sestigers' private website , accessed on December 8, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c portrait at stellenboschwriters.com (English), accessed on December 8, 2013
  3. ↑ List of recipients of the order 2009 ( Memento of December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  4. ↑ Information at bookslive.co.za (English), accessed on December 7, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Rabie, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rabie, Jan Sebastian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH George
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 2001
Place of death Onrusrivier