C.M. van den Heever
C.M. van den Heever (1902-1957)[1] was an Afrikaans-language novelist, poet, playwright, essayist and biographer.
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Born Christiaan Maurits van den Heever on 27 February 1902 in the concentration camp near Norvalspont in Cape Province,
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).
A number of his plays and novels have been dramatised and filmed.
Novels filmed include Somer ("Summer") and Laat Vrugte (lit. "Late Fruit").
The poem Waar Ruwe Rotse (twice dramatised), .
