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Elsa Joubert. Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert OIS (19 October 1922 – 14 June 2020) was a Sestigers Afrikaans -language writer. She rose to prominence with her novel Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena (The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena), which was translated into 13 languages, as well as staged as a drama and filmed as Poppie Nongena.
Learn about the life and works of Elsa Joubert, a celebrated novelist and teacher who wrote about the African continent and the Apartheid system. Find out her awards, publications, and collections in the archives.
Jun 25, 2020 · Read about others here. Elsa Joubert, one of South Africa’s best-known writers in the Afrikaans language, whose apartheid-era novel “The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena” opened the eyes of ...
Jun 16, 2020 · Distinguished South African author Elsa Joubert died in Cape Town on Sunday, at the age of 97 of Covid-19-related causes.. The writer was awarded the Order of Ikhamanga, for South Africans who ...
Elsa Joubert was born in 1922 in Paarl, the cradle of Afrikaans, three years before the official acceptance by the South African government of the language’s existence. To a very large extent ...
Sep 12, 2020 · The South African author, Elsa Joubert, died of COVID-19-related causes on 13 June. 2020, at the age of 97. Her death marked the end of a long and distinguished career, dur-. ing which she gained ...
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Jun 14, 2020 · Elsa (Elsa) Antoinette Murray Joubert was the author of several (travel) books that concern themselves with life in Africa, the relationships between people and the conflicts between cultures. Joubert grew up in Paarl and matriculated from the all-girls school La Rochelle in Paarl in 1939.
