Anna M. Louw
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Anna M. Louw was an author from South Africa
. She was born on a farm near Calvinia. She studied English, Afrikaans, Dutch, German, French and Psychology at Stellenbosch University before living in New York for two years. On her return to South Africa, she studied at the University of Cape Town, and later started writing. She had seven children from two different husbands. Under apartheid, she worked as a censor, e.g. for a novel of nobel prize winner J. M. Coetzee. She died in Cape Town
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in 1964 and the Hertzog Prize
for Kroniek van Perdepoort in 1976.
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. She was born on a farm near Calvinia. She studied English, Afrikaans, Dutch, German, French and Psychology at Stellenbosch University before living in New York for two years. On her return to South Africa, she studied at the University of Cape Town, and later started writing. She had seven children from two different husbands. Under apartheid, she worked as a censor, e.g. for a novel of nobel prize winner J. M. Coetzee. She died in Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
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Awards
She won the Olive Schreiner PrizeOlive Schreiner Prize
The Olive Schreiner Prize is an annual award to new and emergent talent administered by the English Academy of South Africa.-Award winners:*2010 Poetry Finuala Dowling Notes from the Dementia Ward*2009 Prose Michael Cawood Green For The Sake of Silence...
in 1964 and the Hertzog Prize
Hertzog Prize
The Hertzog Prize or is an annual award given to Afrikaans-language writers by the South African Academy for the Sciences and Arts , formerly the South African Academy for Language, Literature and Arts...
for Kroniek van Perdepoort in 1976.
External links
- http://www.utexas.edu/know/2010/05/21/nobel_laureate_coetzee/ About Louw's work as a censor