Santie Grosskopf
Santie Grosskopf (1932-) is an Afrikaans journalist, author and screenwriter.
Biography
Born Anna Susan Pretorius on 16 June 1932 in Stellenbosch, she grew up in Paarl, where she matriculated at Paarl Girls' High School. She studied Afrikaans and Psychology at Stellenbosch University (BA 1952) then worked as a journalist at the Die Oosterlig in Port Elizabeth before joining Die Burger in Cape Town.
She married Johannes Grosskopf in 1955 and they then went to London as foreign correspondents for Nasionale Pers, returning after three years. Over the years she and Johannes lived in Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Washington DC and Stellenbosch - where Johannes was Head of the Department of Journalism at Stellenbosch University from 1984 until 1993.
During this peripatetic existence, Santie was writing as freelance author and translated over 50 children's books.
Contribution ot
The couple had four children: Ernst, Annemarie, Riel and Hein.
Sources
http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/grosskopfs.html
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