Morné Malan

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MALAN,Morné (19**- ). South African author and playwright.

Novels include: Suiderkruis (Tafelberg, 2008); Sonbesie (Tafelberg (2010).

Biography

Youth

Training

After school he studied drama at the University of Pretoria.

Morné graduated with a PhD in English from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2009. [1]

Career

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

It is during his time as student that the play Sonder Vlerke saw the light – a text that would become the book Suiderkruis ten years later. This novel won the debut category of the Sanlam/Insig Groot Romanwedstryd in 2007.

Awards, etc

He was awarded the C.R. Swart Prize by the ATKV in 1997 for his one-act play Drie Engele, 'n Pruim en 'n Slonskous.

Sources

Die Burger, 29 December 1998.

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