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Michiel Heyns

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born

December 02, 1943 in Stellenbosch, South Africa

gender

male

website

http://www.michielheyns.co.za

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Michiel Heyns is a South African novelist, translator and literary critic. Until 2003, he was Professor of English Literature at the University of Stellenbosch when the success of his first novel allowed him to become a full-time writer. As an academic he is best known for his work on 19th and 20th century literature, especially his acclaimed study, Expulsion and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Scapegoat in English Realist Fiction (Oxford University Press, 1994).

In 2002 he made his debut as a novelist with the comic coming-of-age story, The Children's Day. This was followed by another novel of high comedy, The Reluctant Passenger (2003) which has since been translated into French. His subsequent novels have moved away from the South Afri...more

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Books by Michiel Heyns

Average rating: 3.97 · 281 ratings · 95 reviews · 11 distinct works

	The Children's Day by Michiel Heyns, A.L. Kennedy (Introduction), A. L. Kennedy (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Reluctant Passenger 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Lost Ground 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	My rating:
	Bodies Politic 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	The Typewriter's Tale 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Invisible Furies 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Verkeerdespruit 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Expulsion and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Scapegoat in English Realist Fiction 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Agaat by Marlene Van Niekerk, Michiel Heyns (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Equatoria by Tom Dreyer, Michiel Heyns (Translator) 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating: