Piet van Rooyen
Biographical info
Petrus Hendrik (Piet) van Rooyen was born on 17 July 1953 in Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal. He attended school in Senekal in the Free State, but matriculated in Windhoek, Namibia, in 1971. His first volume of poetry from his school days, Draak op die erf, appeared in 1973. He studied anthropology, African studies and development management at Stellenbosch University, became a lecturer there and completed his doctorate...
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