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Marlene van Niekerk (born 10 November 1954) is a South African poet, writer, and academic. She is best known for her novels, the satirical tragicomedy Triomf (1994) and the Hertzog -winning Agaat (2004), which explore themes including the family, the change in power dynamics occasioned by the end of Apartheid , and inequalities of race, gender ...
An outstanding intellectual, philosopher and prodigious literary giant, van Niekerk matriculated from Hoërskool Bloemhof and proceeded to study Language and Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch, where she completed a Masters’ Degree in 1978.
Marlene Van Niekerk is the foremost Afrikaans writer of her generation. She is a renowned poet, scholar, critic, and public intellectual, but is best known as a novelist, and especially for her two major works, Triomf (1994, English translation 2000) and Agaat (2004, translated as The Way of the Women in 2007).
Marlene van Niekerk is now Professor at the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, Stellenbosch University. Awards and Honours: 1978: Eugène Marais Prize and Ingrid Jonker Prize for Sprokkelster. Chancellor's Medal of Stellenbosch University. 1995: M-Net Prize, CNA Prize and Noma Prize for Triomf. 2004: LitNet Dopper Joris-Oskar.
Marlene van Niekerk is a South African author who is best known for her novel Triomf. Her graphic and controversial descriptions of a poor Afrikaner family in Johannesburg brought her to the forefront of a post-apartheid society, still struggling to come to terms with all the changes in South Africa.
Marlene van Niekerk is a poet, critic, novelist, dramatist and professor of writing who grew up in the rural Overberg region of South Africa’s Western Cape. She went to primary school in the small farming village of Riviersonderend, some 160km from Cape Town.
Marlene van Niekerk is a South African poet and novelist. Marlene van Niekerk was born near Caledon in South Africa’s Western Cape. She writes in Afrikaans and is best known for the novels Triomf and Agaat, which won seven literary awards in South Africa.
