KAREL SCHOEMAN, Stiltes en Stemme, 'n huldiging

462pp., illus., paperback, Reprint, Naledi, Gansbaai, 2024

ISBN: 9781991256461

Originally published by Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns in 2023 in their series of tributes to Hertzog Prize winners.

A tribute to South African novelist, historian and translator Karel Schoeman (1939-2017), who wrote 19 collections of prose and some 46 works of non-fiction, biography, historical writing, autobiography and travel, mostly in Afrikaans. He was also the editor of 15 publications in the Vrystatia series. 

He won the Hertzog Prize for Prose three times, the Recht Malan Prize for non-fiction four times, as well as various other awards. The South African Academy for Science and Art presented him with the Stals Award for Cultural History in 1997 and he received the State President’s Award for Service Excellence in 1999, as well as two honorary doctorates from the University of Cape Town (2000) and the University of the Free State (2004).

Contributors: Willie Burger, Philip de Vos, Daniel Hugo, Gerrit Olivier, Johann Rousouw, Francois Smith, Nicol Stassen, Chris van der Merwe, Andries Visagie, Cas Wepener and Ria Winters.

Willie Burger is Professor of Literature at the University of Pretoria.