ANNA M LOUW, Fassinerende, veelkantige skrywer, 'n huldiging

291pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, Arcadia, 2021 

ISBN: 9780949977052

A tribute to Afrikaans writer Anna M Louw (1913-2003), awarded the 1964 Olive Schreiner Prize for prose for Twenty days that autumn;  the 1968 Scheepers Prize for Youth literature for Die voortreflike familie Smit, the 1971 WA Hofmeyr Prize for Die groot gryse, and the Hertzog Prize for prose 1976, WA Hofmeyer Prize 1977 and CNA Prize 1977 for Kroniek van Perdepoort. She served as a censor in the mid-1970s. Although she resigned over the banning of Etienne Leroux's novel Magersfontein, o Magersfontein, she returned to serve on the Publications Appeal Board committee of experts in the 1980s.

Contributors: Johan Cilliers, Heilna du Plooy, Hans Ester, Wieland Gevers, Nicholas Hurst, Sonja Loots, Amanda Lourens, Fransjohan Pretorius, Erika Terblanche, Biebie van der Merwe, Chris van der Merwe, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen, Cas Wepener and Editha Wilson.

Chris van der Merwe is Emeritus Professor of the University of Cape Town, where he taught Theory of Literature and Afrikaans and Dutch Literature.