C.M. van den Heever - Revision history

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 He then embarked on a career as lecturer, intially at the [[University of the Orange Free State]], and later at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]].
-He also began writing, primarily poetry, short stories and novels, becoming a prominent member of [[Die Dertigers]] [lit. "The (writers of) the thirties"], the [[Afrikaans]] literary movement of the thirties). Among his writings are the highly regarded novels  ''[[Somer]]'' ("Summer") and ''[[Laat Vrugte]]'' (lit "Late fruit", a work that was awarded the [[Hertzog Prize]] for prose in 1942).
+He also began writing, primarily poetry, short stories and novels, becoming a prominent member of [[Die Dertigers]] (lit. "The thirtiers" - i.e writers of the thirties"), a major [[Afrikaans]] literary movement of the period. Among his writings are the highly regarded novels  ''[[Somer]]'' ("Summer") and ''[[Laat Vrugte]]'' (lit "Late fruit", a work that was awarded the [[Hertzog Prize]] for prose in 1942).
 He passed away on 8 July 1957.

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 He then embarked on a career as lecturer, intially at the [[University of the Orange Free State]], and later at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]].
-He also began writing, primarily poetry, short stories and novels, becoming a prominent member of the so-called [[Die Dertigers]] (the literary movement of the thirties). Among his writings are the highly regarded novels  ''[[Somer]]'' ("Summer") and ''[[Laat Vrugte]]'' (lit "Late fruit", a work that was awarded the [[Hertzog Prize]] for prose in 1942).
+He also began writing, primarily poetry, short stories and novels, becoming a prominent member of [[Die Dertigers]] [lit. "The (writers of) the thirties"], the [[Afrikaans]] literary movement of the thirties). Among his writings are the highly regarded novels  ''[[Somer]]'' ("Summer") and ''[[Laat Vrugte]]'' (lit "Late fruit", a work that was awarded the [[Hertzog Prize]] for prose in 1942).
 He passed away on 8 July 1957.

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 == Biography ==
-Born Christiaan Maurits van den Heever on 27 February 1902 in the concentration camp near Norvalspont in Cape Province, and studied literature at the [[University of the Orange Free State]] in [[Bloemfontein]] and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
+Born Christiaan Maurits van den Heever on 27 February 1902 in the concentration camp near Norvalspont in Cape Province, and studied literature at the [[University of the Orange Free State]] in Bloemfontein and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
 He then embarked on a career as lecturer, intially at the [[University of the Orange Free State]], and later at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]].

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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-Besides the full-length play ''[[Geloof: Drama uit die Hugenotetyd]]'' ("Faith: Drama from the time of the Hugenots",  1933), he also wrote a number of one-act plays, including ''[[Ek Kom Dadelik!]]'' (a one-act play, published in ''[[Helikon]]'', 4(20), 1955); ''[[Tot U Welsyn]]'' ( a one-act play, published in Bulletin, 4(7):31-35. January, 1957).
+Besides the full-length published play ''[[Geloof: Drama uit die Hugenotetyd]]'' ("Faith: Drama from the time of the Hugenots",  1933), he also wrote a number of one-act plays, including ''[[Ek Kom Dadelik!]]'' (a one-act play, published in ''[[Helikon]]'', 4(20), 1955); ''[[Tot U Welsyn]]'' ( a one-act play, published in Bulletin, 4(7):31-35. January, 1957).
 A number of his plays and novels have been dramatised and filmed.

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−	[[C.M. van den Heever]] (1902-1957)was an [[Afrikaans]]~~-language~~ novelist, poet, playwright, essayist and biographer.	+	[[C.M. van den Heever]] (1902-1957) was an [[Afrikaans]] novelist, poet, playwright, essayist and biographer.

	== Biography ==		== Biography ==

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 Novels filmed include ''[[Somer]]'' ("Summer") and ''[[Laat Vrugte]]'' (lit. "Late Fruit").
-The central concept of his haunting poem ''[[Waar Ruwe Rotse]]'' was twice dramatised (under the titles ''[[Waar Ruwe Rotse]]'' and [[Kolskoot Visagie]] respectively.
+The central concept of his haunting poem ''[[Waar Ruwe Rotse]]'' was twice dramatised (under the titles ''[[Waar Ruwe Rotse]]'' and ''[[Kolskoot Visagie]]'' respectively.
 == Sources ==