Anna M. Louw

Anna M. Louw (31 December 1913 – 12 June 2003) was an author from South Africa. She was born on a farm near Calvinia. She studied English, Afrikaans, Dutch, German, French and Psychology at Stellenbosch University before living in New York for two years. On her return to South Africa, she studied at the University of Cape Town, and later started writing. She had seven children from two different husbands. Under apartheid, she worked as a censor, e.g. for a novel of nobel prize winner J. M. Coetzee. She died in Cape Town.

Awards

She won the Olive Schreiner Prize in 1964 and the Hertzog Prize for Kroniek van Perdepoort in 1976.

Bibliography

• Die onverdeelde uur, 1956
• Die koms van die komeet, 1957
• Agter my 'n Albatros, ('n reisjoenaal) 1959
• Die voortreflike familie Smit, 1962
• Twenty Days That Autumn; 21st March – 9th April 1960; a novel, 1963
• Die banneling: die lyfwag, 1964
• Oom Kolie gee raad, (drie dramas) 1965
• Díe wat met die fluite loop, 1967
• Die groot gryse, 1968
• Gesëende dag, 1969
• Kroniek van Perdepoort, 1975
• Die derde tempel, 1978
• Op die rug van die tier, 1981
• Die loop van die rivier, 1986
• Wolftyd, 1991
• Die donker kind, 1996
• Vos, 1999

See also

• List of African writers

External links

• About Louw's work as a censor