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Marlene Van Niekerk
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born
November 10, 1954
in Caledon, South Africa
gender
female
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Agaat
by Marlene Van Niekerk, Michiel Heyns   4.01 avg rating — 271 ratings
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published
2004
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13 editions
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Triomf
by Marlene Van Niekerk, Leon De Kock   3.84 avg rating — 104 ratings
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published
1996
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7 editions
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Memorandum: A Story with Paintings
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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3 editions
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De sneeuwslaper
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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published
2009
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Die Vrou Wat Haar Verkyker Vergeet Het
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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published
1992
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Sprokkelster
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Groenstaar
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“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.”
― Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat
― Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat
“...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.”
― Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat
― Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat
“Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.”
― Marlene Van Niekerk
― Marlene Van Niekerk
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| UK Book Club: Angela's Around the World in 80 Books | 6 | 21 | Oct 22, 2011 08:19am | |
| Reading the Chunk...: Contemporary Chunkster Nomination | 105 | 90 | Jan 04, 2012 07:54am | |
| A 2012 Challenge:...: Angela's List | 84 | 76 | Jan 08, 2012 04:09pm | |
| Bookish: W12 - Completed Tasks | 263 | 64 | Apr 30, 2012 09:09pm | |
| A 2012 Challenge:...: Nile daughter list | 109 | 90 | May 09, 2012 05:49am | |
| Around the World ...: South Africa | 4 | 41 | May 16, 2012 05:55pm | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Melanie's 2012 List | 24 | 33 | May 29, 2012 07:27am |
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