Ingrid Winterbach
Biographical info
Ingrid Gerda Winterbach was born in Johannesburg on 14 February 1948. She matriculated at Florida High School. In 1969 she completed a BA Degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, and in 1970 she completed an Honors Degree in Afrikaans and Dutch at the same university. She completed her Masters’ Degree in Afrikaans and Dutch in 1974 at the University of Stellenbosch under the study guidance of D.J. Opperman. In the years following her studies, she was a teacher, a journalist at Die Burger, and for 13 years a lecturer in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Stellenbosch. After that, Ingrid was also a lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of Natal. She has been writing and painting full time since 2002.
Her first novel, Klaaglied vir Koos, was published in 1984 under the alias Lettie Viljoen. She published four more books under this name. In 1994 she was awarded both the M-Net and Ou Mutual Prize for her novel Karolina Ferreira. Buller se plan (1999) was the first novel to be published under the name Ingrid Winterbach. In 2004 Ingrid was awarded the Hertzog Prize for prose for Niggie. In 2007 her eighth novel, Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat, was awarded the M-Net Prize, WA Hofmeyer Prize and UJ Prize for creative writing.
Did you know?
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The letters she exchanged as an 18-year-old with the 44-year-old author Etienne Leroux form an important part of his letter-novel 18-44, published in 1967. |
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She was a member of the group of Afrikaans writers who met with the ANC in 1989 at the Victoria Falls. |
Author bookshelf
Die Benederyk, Human & Rousseau (2010)
The Book of Happenstance, Human & Rousseau (2008)
Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat, Human & Rousseau (2008)
To Hell with Cronjé, Human & Rousseau (2007)
The Elusive Moth, Human & Rousseau (2005)
Niggie, Human & Rousseau (2002)
Lettie Viljoen
Karolina Ferreira, Human & Rousseau (1993)
Awards
M-Net Prize (1994) – Karolina Ferreira
Old Mutual Literary Award (1994) – Karolina Ferreira
WA Hofmeyr Prize (2000) – Buller se plan
Hertzog Prize for Prose (2004) – Niggie
WA Hofmeyr Prize (2007) – Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat
M-Net Prize (2007) – Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat
University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing (2007) – Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat
South African Literary Award for literary translation (2010) for the translation of Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat
List of titles
Ingrid Winterbach
Prose
1999 Buller se plan, Human & Rousseau
2002 Niggie, Human & Rousseau
2006 Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat, Human & Rousseau
2010 Die Benederyk, Human & Rousseau
Lettie Viljoen
Prose
1984 Klaaglied vir Koos, Taurus
1986 Erf, Taurus
1990 Belemmering, Taurus
1993 Karolina Ferreira, Human & Rousseau
1996 Landskap met vroue en slang, Human & Rousseau
Translations
Karolina Ferreira (1993)
English (The Elusive Moth, 2005)
Niggie (2002)
English (To Hell with Cronje, 2007), Dutch (2007)
Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat (2006)
English (The Book of Happenstance, 2008)
Reviews
“The book certainly deserves a wide audience. […] Winterbach’s prose is relentlessly plain, but breathtaking agile.” – Sharon Dell on To Hell with Cronje, The Witness (2008)
“To Hell with Cronje succeeds in recreating the psychological intimacy of camaraderie and the effects of trauma during warfare in both the individual and the collective experiences of its characters. The poignancy with which the novel depicts its characters trying to negotiate their way through a war many of them are disillusioned with-echoed by the novel's title-is more than merely anti-war in its sentiments. […] To Hell with Cronje succeeds in both retaining and transposing the authorial tone and emotional resonance of Niggie.” – Riaan Oppelt, LitNet (2008)
“Award winning South African author, Ingrid Winterbach, stretches the intrigue, building the tension to its violent, eruptive end. […] The Elusive Moth is a compelling and seductive read.” – Terry Ellen, www.itsallwrite.net
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