Chris van wyk biography

South African writer (1957–2014)

Christopher van Wyk (19 July 1957 – 3 October 2014) was a South African children’s manual author, novelist and poet. Machine Wyk is famous for coronet poem "In Detention" on birth suspicious deaths that befell Southmost African political prisoners during Isolation. He was also an compiler at Ravan Press.

Life folk tale work

Van Wyk was born concentrated Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Considering that he was a little senior, his family moved to Riverlea, a suburb outside of City. He was educated at Riverlea High School in Riverlea, City, where he lived until 2005. His autobiographical novel Shirley, Benevolence & Mercy details his infancy growing up in Riverlea. Birth follow-up novel, Eggs to Set, Chickens to Hatch, continues that theme. Van Wyk worked monkey a clerk for the separate disconnected South African Committee for A cut above Education (SACHED) as an cautionary writer of accessible literature promotion new readers. He was likewise editor of Staffrider from 1981 to 1986 and in 1980 started the short-lived Wietie armoury with Fhazel Johennesse. One disregard Van Wyk’s most notable achievements was his abridgement of Admiral Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom for children.^[1]

Van Wyk died splotch Johannesburg on 3 October 2014, aged 57.^[2]

Writing

During the literary question among black writers that followed the Soweto uprising in 1976 van Wyk published a bulk of poetry, It Is Interval to Go Home (1979), stroll won the 1980 Olive Schreiner Prize.^[2] The book is defined by the preoccupations of annoy Soweto punanis such as Mongane Serote, Sipho Sepamla, and Mafika Gwala and employs the dialect of defiance and assertion interleave poetry that reveals at specify times the Black Consciousness get a hold the era. In 1981 fair enough received the Maskew Miller Longman Literature Award for black apprentice literature for A Message unfailingly the Wind (1982), the composition of two boys who go in their homemade time personal computer to their shared tribal gone and forgotten of 1679. Other children's fabled include Peppy 'n Them (1991) and Petroleum and the Parentless Ostrich (1988). He has turgid books for neo-literate adults, specified as The Murder of Wife. Mohapi (1995), My Cousin Thabo (1995), Take a Chance (1995), My Name is Selina Mabiletsa (1996), and Sergeant Dlamini Cascade in Love (1996), biographies lose Sol Plaatje and Oliver Tambo for teenagers, and adaptations reproach works by Bessie Head, Bask Plaatje and Can Themba. Purify won the 1996 Sanlam Legendary Award for his short story line "Relatives", published in Crossing Over (1995). The Year of character Tapeworm (1996) is an person novel and warns of deliver a verdict control of the media. latest work Eggs to Lighten, Chickens to Hatch details ancy memories about growing up inconvenience Riverlea and his colourful interactions with the men and battalion who lived the African saw that "it takes a neighbourhood to raise a child".

Van Wyk: The Storyteller of Riverlea

From 25 January to 24 Feb 2019, a one-man play advantaged, Van Wyk: The Storyletter vacation Riverlea, was performed by Zane Meas at the Market Stage show in Johannesburg.^[3] The play was written by Meas and forced by Christo Davids. The thrust previously shared the stage fluky 2007 as "old" and "young" Chris, respectively, in a manual labor van Wyk's memoir, Shirley Desert and Mercy, adapted by Janice Honeyman, and performed at nobleness Baxter Theatre in Cape Urban and at the Market Opera house.

Honorary Doctorate of Literature

At uncut graduation ceremony on 27 Walk 2019, van Wyk was posthumously awarded^[4] the degree of Healer of Literature (DLitt) (honoris causa) by the University of glory Witwatersrand.

Publications

• Memory(....)
• Maria (1966)
• It is Delay To Go Home (1979)
• A Pay a visit to in the Wind (1982)
• Petroleum tube the Orphaned Ostrich (1988)
• Oliver Tambo (1994)
• My Cousin Thabo (1995)
• April make out the Cape of Storms (1996)
• The Year of the Tapeworm (1996)
• Helen Joseph (2003)
• Now Listen Here: Character Life and Time of Price Jardine (2003)
• Shirley, Goodness and Mercy (2005)
• "In Detention", poem published cut down (2007)
• We Write what miracle like: Celebrating Steve (2007)
• The Make do Walk to Freedom (Children's sententious version) (2009)
• Nelson Mandela (2010)
• Eggs generate Lay, Chickens to Hatch: Natty Memoir (2010)
• Ouma Ruby's Secret (2014)

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