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Etienne van Heerden is a South African novelist, poet, and professor of creative writing. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in the small town of Stellenbosch. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch, where he obtained a BA in English and Afrikaans literature, and an MA in English literature. He then went on to pursue a PhD in English literature at the University of Cape Town. Van Heerden is best known for his novels, which often explore the complexities of South African history and culture. His most famous works include The Long Silence of Mario Salviati (1985), The Alphabet of Light and Dark (1993), and The Song of the Women of the Valley (1998). He has also written several collections of poetry, including The Book of the Dead (1989) and The Book of the Living (1995). Van Heerden has been a professor of creative writing at the University of Stellenbosch since 1997. He has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Iowa, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Cape Town. As of 2021, Etienne van Heerden's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 3 December, 1954
Birthday 3 December
Birthplace Johannesburg, South Africa
Nationality South Africa

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2019

He regularly teaches at universities in Europe, and has been Writer in Residence at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He was a member of the University of Iowa’s prestigious International Writing Program in 1990, and has been back on visits to this university, of which he is an Honorary Fellow in Writing. He regularly reads his fiction at events such as the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, the Winter Nights Festival in the Hague, Netherlands, the Time of the Writer Festival in Berlin, Germany, the Zimbabwe Book Fair and other festivals and events internationally.

Although he lives in the Western Cape, Van Heerden returns, in his writing, to the Karoo of his childhood. He describes this arid and mythological part of South Africa’s deep interior is his own “landscape of the mind”.

2014

Van Heerden has published two books of poetry, two books of short stories, a collection of cabaret songs, theoretical and academic work, and novels. His activity spans a wide range — a syndicated columnist in the major three Afrikaans dailies, published countrywide in South Africa, his own program on satellite television, and founder-editorship of one of the few South African internet startups.

1980

During the 1980s he was member of a group of Afrikaans writers secretly meeting the banned ANC of Mandela and exiled writers at the (now famous) Victoria Falls Writers’ Conference, held in Zimbabwe.

1954

Etienne van Heerden, born 3 December 1954, is a South African author.

Van Heerden was born in 1954, six years after the official advent of apartheid. His mother was an English speaking mathematics teacher. His father, an Afrikaans speaking merino stud breeder, farmed the family farm in the Karoo. Van Heerden was reared Afrikaans, with English reserved for use at home on Tuesdays, and learned from comics ordered from London.

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