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Zelda Bezuidenhout

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Lusaka, Zambia

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Zelda Bezuidenhout was born in Zambia but moved to South Africa as a young girl. She worked as an advertising copywriter in Johannesburg for most of her adult life and only started writing books at the age of 56.
Her first book, the youth novel "As mens geluk kon proe" was the runner-up in Lapa Publishers' youth novel competition in 2017. It has since been translated into English and was published as "Confessions of a Ginger Pudding" in September 2021.
Her first book for adults, "Die dekonstruksie van Retta Blom" was published by Kwela Books in July 2019. Another youth novel, "Die 6 weke van Thomas en Ella", followed in September 2019. "Toe ons oneindig was" was published in June 2020. A first for Afrikaans YA fiction, it's a coming of age ...more

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“Ek dink as ek vandag na Bob Dylan se 'Mr Tambourine Man' moet luister, sal al die hartseer van die afgelope paar jaar saamkoek in my hart soos staalwol. Die skerp draadkrulle sal my hart kneus en sny en die pyn sal ondraaglik wees.”
― Zelda Bezuidenhout, As mens geluk kon proe

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“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.”
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