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Marlene van Niekerk is a South African author, poet, and professor of Afrikaans literature. She was born in Caledon, South Africa, and is best known for her novel Triomf, which was adapted into a feature film in 2009. She has also written several collections of poetry, short stories, and essays. Van Niekerk studied at the University of Stellenbosch, where she earned a master's degree in Afrikaans literature. She then went on to teach at the University of the Western Cape, where she was a professor of Afrikaans literature. Van Niekerk has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Hertzog Prize for Prose in 1994, the CNA Literary Award in 1995, and the M-Net Literary Award in 1996. She was also awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver by the South African government in 2008. Van Niekerk's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. She has earned her wealth through her writing and teaching career.

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Age 70 years old
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Born 10 November, 1954
Birthday 10 November
Birthplace Caledon, South Africa
Nationality South Africa

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2008

Marlene van Niekerk is a South African academic, novelist and poet who is best known internationally for her novels Triomf and Agaat. Her graphic and controversial descriptions of a poor Afrikaner family in Johannesburg in Triomf brought her to the forefront of a post-apartheid society still struggling to come to terms with all the changes in South Africa. This novel was made into an award-winning film, likewise called Triomf_(film), in 2008, directed by Michael Raeburn.

2000

Since 2000, Marlene van Niekerk is a professor in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, Stellenbosch University, where she teaches creative writing.

1990

Back in South Africa, she lectured in philosophy at the University of Zululand, and later at Unisa. During the 1990s, she was a lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

1979

While at university, she wrote three plays for amateur theatre. In 1979 she moved to Germany to join theatres in Stuttgart and Mainz to study directing. From 1980 to 1985, she continued her study of philosophy in the Netherlands and obtained a Dutch doctorandus with a thesis on the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Paul Ricoeur: "Taal en Mythe: Een Structuralistische en Een Hermeneutische Benadering" (Language and Myth: A Structuralist and Hermeneutic Approach) from the University of Amsterdam.

1978

She studied languages and philosophy at Stellenbosch University and obtained an MA with the thesis: "Die Aard en Belang van die Literêre Vormgewing in 'Also sprach Zarathustra'" (The Nature and Significance of Literary Shaping in Also sprach Zarathustra) in 1978.

1954

Marlene van Niekerk was born on 10 November 1954 on the farm Tygerhoek near Caledon in the Western Cape, South Africa. She attended school in Riviersonderend and Stellenbosch, where she matriculated from Hoërskool Bloemhof.

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