Marlene van Niekerk is an award-winning poet, novelist, and short story writer. Her publications include the short story collection The Woman Who Forgot Her Spyglass, the novella Memorandum, and the novels Triomf and Agaat.
Triomf, translated by Leon de Kock, was a New York Times Notable Book in 2004, and won the CNA Literary Award, the M-Net Prize in South Africa, and the prestigious Noma Award (the first Afrikaans novel to do so). In 2007, Agaat received the Sunday Times Literary Prize and the Hertzog Prize and was translated as The Way of the Women by Michiel Heyns, who received the Sol Plaatje Award for his translation.
Van Niekerk is currently an associate professor in Afrikaans and Dutch literature and creative writing at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
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