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# Masters Class in Literary Translation
Etienne van Heerden will offer a Masters Class in Literary Translation at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands and his Dutch translator, Martine Vosmaer, will also contribute.
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# Lecture: 30 Nights in Amsterdam
Writers Unlimited: The Series, The Hague, Netherlands
This lecture: 30 Nights in Amsterdam
Lecture, Central Library, The Hague - 24 February 2012, 20h30 to 22h00
Writers Unlimited (formerly "Winternachten") offers a series of conversations with authors: "Writers Unlimited: The Series" and in the 4th event Etienne van Heerden will discuss his latest novel with Jeroen van Kan (VPRO radio programme De Avonden) en the chief editor of ZAM Magazine, Bart Luirink.
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# New inter-review
# New reviews
- Athenaeum Boekhandel: De sluizen van herinnering [Netherlands: Amsterdam, 05.01.2012]
“Van Heerden schepte bovendien voor de gekte van Zan een idioom dat haar een personage maakt dat zijn weerga in de moderne literatuur bijna niet kent. De oplopende stadia van haar ‘vervoering’ worden gespiegeld in haar steeds extatischer taal. Spreekt Zan in normale doen al kleurrijk, als zij een aanval krijgt gaat het hele taalregister open. De leestekens vallen weg, de associaties en verwijzingen buitelen over elkaar heen – u las het hierboven al. Een pluim voor Karina van Santen en Martine Vosmaer, de vertalers die haar (en dus Van Heerden) hebben kunnen bijbenen, hoed af voor deze beste roman van 2011.”
– Mark-Edward Schaap
- www.iedereenleest.be: 30 Nachten in Amsterdam
[Belgium: Antwerp, 06.01.2012]
“Het jaar 2011 sloot ik heel waardig af met een verbijsterend knap boek van Etienne van Heerden (1954), 30 Nachten in Amsterdam.”
– André Oyen
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# Dutch Translation of 30 Nights in Amsterdam
Etienne van Heerden took part in the Crossing Borders Festival (The Hague, Netherlands and Antwerp, Belgium), launching the Dutch translation of 30 Nights in Amsterdam. [11.2011]
“Etienne van Heerden’s new novel 30 Nights in Amsterdam is an incredibly rich novel, magnificently
written ... 30 Nights in Amsterdam is a raging whirlwind of events, ideas, feelings and facts, captivating and transporting readers, leaving them breathless after the last page.”
– Sonja Dejong, Haarlems Dagblad [Netherlands: The Hague, 14.12.2011]
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# Manuscript supervised by Etienne van Heerden published
Supporting emerging writers: Terry Westby-Nunn's The Sea of Wise Insects, the manuscript of which was completed under the supervision of Etienne van Heerden as part of UCT's Creative Writing programme, has just been published by Jacana. [11.2011]
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# Maal by Nicole Jaekel Strauss
Nicole Jaekel Strauss has been awarded the Eugéne Marais Prize (a prize awarded for an early work) for her debut, Maal. Strauss also received the University of Johannesburg Prize for a Debut Work for this manuscript, completed under the supervision of Etienne van Heerden. [11.2011]
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# Etienne van Heerden at the Cape Town Open Book Festival
With Earl Lovelace and Lynda Gilfillan, “The Pen Free the Word dialogue”, Open Book Festival, Cape Town, September 2011. (Photo: Books LIVE) [09.2011]
Bibi Slippers reports on this panel. Read her report on LitNet.
With novelists Christopher Hope and Hari Kunzru in the Fugard Studio, Open Book Festival, Cape Town, 23 September 2011 [09.2011]
Finuala Dowling reports on this panel. Read her report on SLiPnet.
Reading at the Open Book Festival, Cape Town, September 2011. With André P. Brink, Louise Viljoen and Ingrid Winterbach. (Photo: Marina Nel) [09.2011]
Bibi Slippers reports on this panel. Read her report on LitNet.
Barbara Burger also reports on this panel. Read her report on SLiPnet.
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# Paperback edition
Smaller, more compact paperback edition of 30 Nights in Amsterdam, to be launched on
October 1st, 2011. New cover design. [09.2011]
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# Photos
Etienne van Heerden (middle) spoke at the second Olive Schreiner Karoo Writers’ Festival about the Karoo as his “landscape of the mind”. Here he is with a group at the Cradock Four Memorial. At the back, from left to right: Kaia van Heerden, Tim Wege, Darryl David (founder of the festival) and Rika Featherstonehaugh. In front, from left to right: June Walters, Miki Redelinghuys and her two children, Tumani Calata, Kiara David (daughter of Darryl), Menán van Heerden, Etienne van Heerden, Nomonde Calata (wife of activist Fort Calata, one of the Cradock Four), Julienne du Toit, Michael Antrobus, the author Michael Cawood Green and Christopher Nicholson (author of Who Killed the Cradock Four?) [07.2011]
• More photographs here.
• For photographs of the festival's expedition to Schreiner's grave on Buffelskop, click here.
Eerste Festival voor het Afrikaans in Amsterdam
With other artists and organisers at the Theatre of the Tropics, Amsterdam.
Gert Vlok Nel, Calvin Ngcaku, Joris Cornelissen (main organiser), Marita van der Vyver, Themba Ndimande, Etienne van Heerden, David Kramer, Niël Rademan, EKM Dido and Rachelle Conradie (organiser). [06.2011]
Reading in the Theatre of the Tropics, Amsterdam, Netherlands, with Dutch translation of 30 Nights in Amsterdam projected overhead. [06.2011]
Before the reading: Breyten Breytenbach, Ena Jansen, Marita van der Vyver, Etienne van Heerden and EKM Dido, Theatre of the Tropics, Amsterdam [06.2011]
Etienne van Heerden with Harry Garuba and Michiel Heyns, Men of Letters panel, Franschhoek Literary Festival 2011. [05.2011]
Etienne van Heerden joins 19 other writers from 10 countries at The Time of the Writer Festival in Durban. The focus this year is on Freedom of Expression. [03.2011]
At the "Big Five" reading at the Stellenbosch Woordfees, with novelists Ingrid Winterbach, André Brink, Elsa Joubert and Arnon Grunberg (from the Netherlands). [03.2011]
(Photo: Imke van Heerden)
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# New review
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# New interview
The first of four videoclips of Leon de Kock interviewing Etienne van Heerden and translator Michiel Heyns on 30 Nights in Amsterdam, Kalk Bay Books.
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# Kalk Bay launch of 30 Nights in Amsterdam
The launch of Etienne van Heerden's 30 Nights in Amsterdam took place at the Kalk Bay Bookshop on Thursday, 17 February 2011. Leon de Kock was the guest speaker, and translator Michiel Heyns and Etienne van Heerden took part in a discussion about the book. Click here for more photos. [02.2011]
# New release
Penguin Books SA is delighted to announce the release of Etienne van Heerden’s 30 Nights in Amsterdam. Originally written in Afrikaans, 30 Nights in Amsterdam is now available in English for the first time!
Should you like to request an interview, review and/or give-away copies please contact Candice.Wiggett@za.penguingroup.com.
Click here for the full cover spread.
About the book
30 Nights in Amsterdam (translated by Michiel Heyns) follows Henk Andreas de Melker, a lowly museum assistant from a small town in the Eastern Cape who is unexpectedly informed that he is the sole beneficiary of his late, long-lost Aunt Zan’s estate.
He must travel to Amsterdam, where his beautiful but eccentric aunt had spent her final years, to acquire this fortune. Aunt Zan was an extraordinary woman, prone to seizures and extremely unsociable behaviour … but her “other life” – her political activism, her acting ability and her involvement in cloak-and-dagger scenarios – was known to very few. Upon Henk’s arrival in Amsterdam his own life becomes inextricably bound up with that of his late aunt.
And over the next thirty nights in Holland’s capital city many secrets will be revealed and Henk will return to South Africa a changed man.
The translator
Michiel Heyns has written several novels; his latest, Bodies Politic, won the 2009 Herman Charles Bosman Award for English Fiction.
He won the English Academy’s Sol Plaatje Award for Translating (2008) as well as the South African Translators’ Institute Award for a Literary Translation for his translation of Agaat. | |
 # Recent awards
30 Nagte in Amsterdam received:
• the Hertzog Prize
• the WA Hofmeyr Award
• the M-Net Book Prize
• the University of Johannesburg prize for Literature
Click here for more information on 30 Nagte in Amsterdam.
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  # Reissues by Penguin
• Leap Year, first published in Afrikaans as Die stoetmeester, was originally published in 1997 and the English edition has been out of print for more than a decade. It was nominated for the 1999 International Dublin Literary Award. The novel, set against the backdrop of the Eastern Cape in a time of great political upheaval, tells the story of the Butler family and the impact that their unusual breed of goats has on their lives and the members of their farming community. Click here for more information on Leap Year.
• Ancestral Voices, the English translation of Toorberg, was first published in 1989 and has been out of print since 2001. The book gives us a vision of the Afrikaner inheritance through the eyes of the insular Moolman family. This was Van Heerden’s first international breakthrough novel. It won all the major Afrikaans literary awards in South Africa when it appeared, and established its author as the leading novelist of his generation. Click here for more information on Ancestral Voices. |
# UCT MA Creative Writing student Nicole Jaekel-Strauss publishes her manuscript written under Etienne van Heerden's supervision to great acclaim:
Maal
Nicole Jaekel Strauss
Publisher: Queillerie
ISBN: 9780795800177
• Click here to buy Maal from Kalahari.net.
# The guest house at 42 Market Street, Cradock, named after Etienne van Heerden. Book at Die Tuishuise, Victoria Manor, Cradock.
# Etienne van Heerden's LitNet launches LitNet Akademies, an accredited academic journal.
# Etienne van Heerden's LitNet launches The Big Book Chain Chat.
# Etienne van Heerden on the Schreiner Literary Festival.
With organiser Darryl David at the Schreiner Festival, Victoria Manor, Cradock, July 2010.
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