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Revision as of 06:20, 14 September 2021
J.H. Meyer (born 1899) was an Afrikaans playwright.
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Biography
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He started out writing poems as a schoolboy, which he recited at the local debating society, but later shifted to plays. Using the nom de plume of Meyhendi Zhann he wrote a number of pieces, most of them unpublished. The two published works are Wanneer Plig Moet Swig ("When duty must give way", published 1933) and Gedwarsboom ("thwarted", published 1935).
Sources
https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyhendi_Zhann
Sabinet, the South African Libraries Catalogue.
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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