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Bartho Smit

バルト・スミット

Bartho Smit

Aliases: Bartholomeus Jacobus Smit

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1924-07-15 （Klerkskraal, near Ventersdorp, South Africa）
Died
1986-12-31 （Melville, Gauteng, South Africa） age 62
Nationality
South Africa
Languages
Afrikaans
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
South Africa → Europe (Paris, Munich, London)

Career

Occupations
writer, poet, dramatist, director
Active Years
1941-1986
Affiliations
Sestigers

Education

University of Pretoria
Degree: Bachelor's degree
Year of Graduation: 1949
Country: South Africa
University of Pretoria
Degree: Master of Arts
Year of Graduation: 1951
Country: South Africa

Awards

Hertzog Prize
1978
Work: body of drama works
Category: drama
Result: winner
Perskor Prize
1979
Work: Die Keiser
Result: winner
Encyclopædia Britannica Award
1960
Work: English translation of Die verminktes
Organization: Encyclopædia Britannica
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Moeder Hanna

1955 drama

Drama about the Second Boer War

Boer Warfamily

Putsonderwater

1962 drama

Play that could not be performed in South Africa due to its political message

politicsoppression

Bibliography

  • Mure: verse (1949)
  • Moeder Hanna (1955)
  • Don Juan onder die boere (1960)
  • Die verminktes (1960)
  • Putsonderwater (1962)
  • Die man met die lyk om sy nek (1967)
  • Christine (1971)
  • Die man met die alibi (1971)
  • Bacchus in die Boland (1974)
  • Die Keiser (1977)
  • Losgoed (1974, sketches)

Health

  • cancer
    1986年頃
    cause of death

Legacy

Member of the influential Afrikaans writers group Sestigers in the 1960s

Trivia

  • First publication was the story 'Outa Lukas, die natuurkind' in 1941
  • Debut poetry book 'Mure: verse' in 1949