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The lusern lands of <i>Kikuyu</i>. Olive Schreiner lies buried on the mountains to the right. In Namibia With Johnny Theunissen, the “mayor” of Matjiesfontein. Matjiesfontein features in <i>In stede van die liefde</i>.
In front of the Olive Schreiner museum, Cradock, with historian Paul Murray who assists me in doing research for my novels. On the set of local soap opera, <i>7de laan</i>, during the TV launch of <i>30 Nagte in Amsterdam</i>. With Dutch journalist and philosopher, Michael Zeeman, The Hague, Netherlands.
Sunrise in the Karoo. Sunrise in the hills behind Prince Albert in the Karoo. Yearsonend, the village in The Long Silence of Mario Salviati, is of a similar nature. With photographer Obie Oberholzer in his Grahamstown home. In the Camel Yard of Helen Martins' Owl House, Nieu-Bethesda. She is regarded as a formemost outsider artist. When I was a child on visits to my grandmother in Nieu-Bethesda, I was often warned not to talk to 'the witch'.
A cement reservoir in the Karoo. A villa in the Karoo.

With wife Kaia at Lake Zurich, Switzerland.

 With Zimbabwean novelist Chenjerai Hove near Fort Hare, Eastern Cape, South Africa (note the ostrich between us). Chenjerai is now in exile in Amsterdam.
With Nigerian author Kole Omotosho in Harare, 1998. With novelist André P Brink at the Victoria Falls Conference with the then still banned ANC, Zimbabwe, 1989. We had to slip out of the country secretly for this safari. With fellow writers in Washington, USA, in the late eighties. Myself and my wife, Kaia (far right), with South African singer Koos Kombuis and cabaret diva Amanda Strydom, at the Klein Karoo Arts Festival, Oudtshoorn, 1999.
With school friends, Dawie (Vaatjie) de Villiers and Koos Kombuis (now the famous singer) at Hermanus, 1973. With school friends Dawie (Vaatjie) de Villiers and Koos Kombuis in December 2003 With Kaia and the kids on a ski slope in Switzerland Myself and my wife, Kaia, and Judge Wilfred Cooper, who was the advocate of Dimitrios Tsafendas, the killer of Verwoerd ('the architect of Apartheid'). At the launch of Casspirs and Campari's in the Cape Town Waterfront, 1988.
In Times Square, New York, 2003, during the USA book tour for The Long Silence of Mario Salviati. With South African Afrikaans writers and academics Hein Willemse, Vernie February, Neville Alexander and Larry Pokpas at the historic Language and Identity Conference, Leiden, Netherlands, 1992. This conference renewed cultural contacts after the Cultural Boycott of the eighties. With literary fathers Jan Rabie (left) and Etienne Leroux (far right), Onrust River, South Africa, 1982. In Vienna with South African authors Achmat Dangor, Marita van der Vyfer and Johnny Masilela and Dutch authors Henk van Woerden and Alfred Schaffer.
With Iranian writer Kader Abdolah during the Winternachten (Winter Nights) Festival, The Hague, 2002.

With Chirikure Chirikure, Zimbabwean poet, his wife, Niji Osundare, Nigerian poet, and Festus Iyayi, Nigerian novelist, Harare, 1998.

With poet Uys Krige, Onrust River, South Africa, during the 80's.

 With Zimbabwean poet Chirikure Chirikure and Nigerian novelist Festus Iayi, Iowa City, 1993.

At the Remembering the Future Conference at the House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany, 1996.

 With Dutch poet Alfred Schaffer in Vienna during the Literature and Migration conference in December 2002, offered by the University of Vienna. Alfred is a post-doctoral researcher in my Department at the university. Receiving the M-Net Literary Award for <i>30 Nagte in Amsterdam</i>, 2009. Receiving the WA Hofmeyr Award for <i>30 Nagte in Amsterdam</i>, 2009.