Die Voortreflike Familie Smit
Die Voortreflike Familie Smit ("The excellent family Smith") can refer to:
1. an award winning Afrikaans novel by Anna M. Louw (1913-2003)
2. an Afrikaans film
3. an Afrikaans TV series
The latter two were both based on the novel.
The novel
Telling of the everyday life of a rural family that has moved to the city of Cape Town, as narrated by the teenage daughter Grietjie, the tale was originally written for a writing competition sponsored by the Vroue Landbouvereniging[] ("Women's Agricultural Association"), it was published in serial form in the women's magazine Sarie Marais in 196* and was subsequently published in book form by in 1968.
Louw received the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns's Scheepersprys for youth literature for it in 1968.
The film
The TV series (1983)
Adapted as a series for TV, directed Stephan Bouwer.
Sources
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