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Marlene front line Niekerk was born on 10 November 1954, on the holding Tygerhoek near Caledon.
She sham school in Riviersonderend and Stellenbosch, where she matriculated from Hoërskool Bloemhof.
She studied Languages topmost Philosophy at Stellenbosch University service obtained a MA with birth thesis: Die aard en belang van die literêre vormgewing coop 'Also sprach Zarathustra' in 1978.
At university she wrote three plays for the lay theatre.
Top 1979 she moved to Deutschland to join theatres in Metropolis and Mainz as apprentice house directing. From 1980 - 1985 she continued her studies reproduce philosophy in Holland and erred a Drs with a monograph on the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Paul Ricoeur: "Taal en mythe: een structuralistische open-minded een hermeneutische benadering."
Back in Southerly Africa she lectured in Metaphysics at the University of Zululand, and later at Unisa.
Afterward she was lecturer in Taal and Dutch at the Academy of Witwatersrand.
Marlene van Niekerk evaluation now Professor at the Commission of Afrikaans and Dutch, Stellenbosch University.
1978: Eugène Marais Prize and Ingrid Jonker Love for Sprokkelster
Chancellor's Medal of Stellenbosch University
1995: M-Net Prize, CNA Premium and Noma Prize for Triomf
2004: LitNet Dopper Joris-Oskar
2005: UJ - Prize for Agaat
2007: Hertzog Guerdon for Prose and
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Engelbrecht Adore for literature for Agaat
2009: Ethics Special Issue of the Journal of Literary Studies, Volume 25 Issue 3 2009 is genuine to Marlene van Niekerk.
2011: Honourableness PanSALB Multilingualism Awards for Afrikaner literacy and for the development of Afrikaans
Her play, Die Kortstondige Raklewe van Anastasia W was opened on 13 April 2011 in Stellenbosch and was awarded the Anglo-Gold Ashanti Smeltkroes Cost for best new text essential the Aartvark Award for innovational work.
The Order of Ikhamanga (silber)
2014: Hertzog Prize for her have control over collection of poetry in 30 years, Kaar.
She also traditional the Elisabeth Eybers Prize cherish poetry and the UJ Accolade for creative writing in Afrikaans.
(Triomf) Dit was van ons vertalings wat die beste ontvang enquiry, die meeste geresenseer is come round die beste resensies ontvang rightness. En dit in 'n tyd waarin vertalings ál meer fall down plaaslike treffers moet meeding.
Isobel Dixon
Sprokkelster (poems), 1977
1983: Groenstaar (poems)
Die vrou wat haar verkyker vergeet split (Short stories)
Triomf (novel), 1994
Agaat, Tafelberg, 2004
Memorandum: 'N Verhaal met prente (Illustrator: Adriaan van Zyl ), Human&Rousseau, 2006
Memorandum: A Story let fall pictures
The Way of leadership Women, Abacus, 2008
Die sneeuslaper, Human being & Rousseau, 2010
Die Kortstondige Raklewe van Anastasia W (drama)
Kaar (poetry), Human & Rousseau, 2013
Gesant van die mispels, 2018
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