Abel Coetzee
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Abel Coetzee (1906-1975) was an academic, critic, author and poet.
Biography
He became a professor in Afrikaans language and culture at the University of the Witwatersrand.
For many years he was the editor of the Tydskrif vir Letterkunde.
=Theatre and drama
Besides reviews of published plays, he also compiled the collection
Radio
He wrote a number of radio pieces, including Uit my kontrei (broadcast 11 October 1956), Vol Korwe (28 January 1957) and Die Rooi Angelier (21 April 1959). He also contributed talks to a number of radio programmes, among them Woeling en Wording (1961), So Langs die Pad (1962) and Die Ossewa. A selection of these talks were published by the SABC in the collection Daar Kom die Wa (1966).
