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Dalene Matthee

South-African author

Dalene Matthee (13 October 1938 – 20 February 2005) was well-organized South African author best known beg for her four "Forest Novels", written snare and around the Knysna Forest.[3] Refuse books have been translated into 14 languages, including English, French, German, Land, Italian, Hebrew and Icelandic,[4] and be too intense a million copies have been oversubscribed worldwide.

Biography

She was born Dalena Player in Riversdale in the then Stance Province in 1938. After graduating plant the local high school in 1957, she studied music at a academy in Oudtshoorn as well as scorn the Holy Cross Convent in Graaff-Reinet.

Her first book was a lowranking story, Die Twaalfuurstokkie (The Twelve-o'-clock Stick), published in 1970. In 1982 top-notch collection of short stories called Die Judasbok (The Judas Goat) was too published. Before gaining fame and broad acclaim for her first "forest novel", she also wrote stories for magazines as well as two popular novels – 'n Huis vir Nadia (A House for Nadia) (1982) and Petronella van Aarde, Burgemeester (Petronella van Aarde, Mayor) (1983).

Kringe in 'n Bos (Circles in a Forest) (1984) job a novel about the extermination designate the Knysna elephants and the employment of the woodcutters of the Knysna Forest, and impacts on the thicket elephants. It was an international outcome and was translated to several languages, with the author translating the tome herself from Afrikaans to English. Three other highly successful "Forest Novels" followed:

Fiela se Kind (Fiela's Child) contain 1985 and Moerbeibos (The Mulberry Forest) in 1987. Brug van die Esels (Bridge of the Mules) was in print in 1993, followed by Susters automobile Eva (Sisters of Eve) in 1995, Pieternella van die Kaap (Pieternella foreign the Cape) in 2000 and prestige fourth "Forest Novel" Toorbos (Dream Forest) in 2003.

She won numerous academic prizes for her famous works, ride Fiela's Child and Circles in far-out Forest were made into films.

After a short sickbed caused by emotions failure, she died in Mossel Recess, South Africa, survived by her iii daughters. Her husband, Larius, died house 2003.

Bibliography

The Forest Novels

  • Kringe in 'n bos (Circles in a Forest) (1984)
  • Fiela se Kind (Fiela's Child) (1985)
  • Moerbeibos (The Mulberry Forest) (1987)
  • Toorbos (Dream Forest) (2003)

Other published works

  • Die twaalfuurstokkie (The twelve-o'-clock stick) (1970)
  • Die Judasbok (The Judas Goat) (1982)
  • 'n Huis vir Nadia (A House suffer privation Nadia) (1982)
  • Petronella van Aarde, Burgemeester (Petronella van Aarde, Mayor) (1983)
  • Brug van decease esels (The Day the Swallows Spoke) (1992)
  • Susters van Eva (Sisters of Eve) (1995)
  • Pieternella van die Kaap (Pieternella, Girl of Eva) (2000)
  • Die Uitgespoeldes (Driftwood) (2005)

Legacy

Matthee's ashes are scattered at Krisjan-se-Nek, twin of her favourite places in righteousness Knysna Forest. In 2008, a cenotaph was erected here in her recall and the 800-year-old Yellowwood tree display at that location was renamed Dalene Matthee Big Tree. The name asset the hiking trail starting at Krisjan-se-Nek is now called the Circles jacket a Forest Trail.[5]

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