Marq De Villiers

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Marq De Villiers (* 1940 in Bloemfontein , South Africa ) is a South African-Canadian journalist and writer.

De Villiers worked as a foreign correspondent in Moscow and Eastern Europe. In Canada, he was editor of Toronto Life and WHERE Magazines . He has authored over a dozen non-fiction books on a variety of subjects including American and South African history and politics, travelogues, and environmental issues. His books have been translated into up to eleven languages.

He is married to the editor and author Sheila Hirtle , with whom he also writes books together. You live in Nova Scotia .

Works

  • White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's bitter roots: notes of an eighth-generation Afrikaner. Penguin USA, 1989.
  • Down the Volga: A Journey Through Mother Russia in a Time of Troubles. ISBN 0-67084-353-9 .
  • Blood Traitor: A True Saga of the American Revolution. With Sheila Hirtle. HarperCollins, 1996. ISBN 0-00-255424-0 .
  • Into Africa: A Journey Through the Ancient Empires. With Sheila Hirtle. Key Porter Books, October 1997. ISBN 1-55013-884-7 .
  • Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource. (German: Wasser. Econ, 2000. ISBN 978-3430193726 .)
  • Sahara: The Life of the Great Desert. With Sheila Hirtle. McClelland & Stewart, and Walker and Co. 2003. ISBN 0-7710-2639-0 .
  • A Dune Adrift: The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island . With Sheila Hirtle. McClelland & Stewart, 2004. ISBN 0-7710-2642-0 .
  • Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather. McClelland & Stewart, 2006. ISBN 0-7710-2644-7 .
  • Witch in the Wind: The True Story of the Legendary Bluenose. Thomas Allen and Co., 2007. ISBN 0-88762-224-0 .
  • Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold. McClelland and Stewart, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7710-2646-1 .
  • Dangerous World. Penguin, 2008. ISBN 978-0670065684 .

Awards

  • 1989: Alan Paton Award for White Tribe Dreaming
  • 1999: Governor General's Award for Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
  • 1999: Canadian Science Writers Award for Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
  • 2005: Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non Fiction for A Dune Adrift (together with Sheila Hirtle)
  • 2008: Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-fiction for Witch in the Wind: The True Story of the Legendary Bluenose
  • 2008: Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction for Witch in the Wind: The True Story of the Legendary Bluenose
  • 2011: Honorary Doctorate from Dalhousie University

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personal data
SURNAME De Villiers, Marq
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African-Canadian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bloemfontein , South Africa