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| − | KANNEMEYER, John Christoffel (31/3/1939-2011) Lecturer, critic and eminent literary historian. Born in Robertson, Western Cape, he studied Afrikaans-Dutch literature at the [[University of Stellenbosch]] between 1959 and 1964, obtaining a D.Litt. Taught at the Universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Witwatersrand. He moves to the HSRC in 1987, staying there till 1992, after which he becomes a free-lance writer. Besides his comprehensive and authoritative ''Geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse Literatuur'' ("History of the Afrikaans Literature") Part 1 (1978) and part 2 (1983) - which includes sections on Afrikaans drama - he is noted for his exhaustive biographies of various authors. Notable for our purposes are those on the playwrights [[D.J. Opperman]], [[C.J. Langenhoven]], [[C. Louis Leipoldt]] and [[Uys Krige]]. In 1993 he also published a summarised English version of his history, entitled ''A History of the Afrikaans Literature''. [TH]
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