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Christiaan Maurits van den Heever

クリスティヤーン・モーリッツ・ヴァン・デン・ヒーヴァー

Kurishiyān Mōritsu van den Hīevā

Aliases: C. M. van den Heever / C.M. van den Heever

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1902-02-27 (concentration camp near Norvalspont, Cape Province (now Northern Cape Province), South Africa)
Died
1957-07-08 (Unknown) age 55
Nationality
South Africa
Languages
Afrikaans
Residence History
Bloemfontein, South Africa

Career

Occupations
novelist, poet, essayist, biographer
Active Years
1920-1957
Affiliations
University of the Free State, University of the Witwatersrand
Influenced By
Totius

Education

University of the Free State
Country: South Africa
University of Utrecht
Country: Netherlands
University of the Witwatersrand
Country: South Africa
Completed dissertation on the poet Totius

Awards

Hertzog Prize
1942
Work: Late Fruits
Category: 散文部門
Organization: South African Academy for Science and Arts
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Summer

novel

One of his most famous novels

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Late Fruits

novel

One of his most famous novels, winner of Hertzog Prize

late fruitslife

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Dertigers style

Legacy

Counted among the Dertigers, noted for his novels Somer and Laat vrugte, the latter winning the Hertzog Prize for prose in 1942.

Trivia

  • Born in a concentration camp.