BILTONG EN DIOR, avonture van 'n Afrikaanse Fransman

248pp., illus., paperback, Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2026

ISBN: 9780624095231

Louis Jansen van Vuuren's account of his life in France includes snippets of French history and advice on how to survive in a society with distinctive customs and a language that is almost impossible to learn. 

South African artist Louis Jansen van Vuuren was born in 1949 in Middleburg in the Eastern Transvaal and taught at Stellenbosch University and Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town. He moved to France in the late 1990s  and lives in a château in the French countryside. He has held over 50 exhibitions in South Africa and abroad, and is the author of The Story of a House and Tempermes, a volume of poetry, and co-author of the cookbooks Festive France, There’s a Vegan on my Verandah and Earthling Food.