WILMA STOCKENSTRÖM, met my wysvingertop, 'n huldiging

334pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns & Protea Boekhuis, Pretoria, 2024

ISBN: 9781485316022

A collection of articles, poems, essays and commendations honouring Afrikaans poet, novelist and actress Wilma Stockenström.

Contributions include:

"Van vergetelheid en van glans as voortsetting van die Symbolisme" by Hein Viljoen

"Wilma Stockenström as donker ekodigter: die flikkering van die arche-litiese in enkele klipgedigte" by Alettie van den Heever

"'n Paradoksale grap oor die dood in die poësie van Wilma Stockenström" by Marius Crous

"Die kremetartsekspedisie se sypeling verby die grense van Afrikaner-nasionalistiese en koloniale reisnarratiewe" by Bibi Burger

"Ants Kirsipuu en Wilma Stockenström: enkele herinneringe" by Johann Lodewyk Marais. 

Wilma Stockenström was born in 1933 in the village of Napier and lives in Cape Town. Her books include Die kremetartsekspedisie (translated into English by J.M. Coetzee as The expedition to the baobab tree), Van vergetelheid en van glans (Hertzog Prize for Poetry), Monsterverse (CNA, Louis Luyt and the Old Mutual Prize), and Abjater wat so lag (WA Hofmeyr and Hertzog Prize for Fiction).