Die Vrou en Ander Verse [1953 Hardeband met Stofomslag] - by Elisabeth Eybers

Title    Die Vrou en Ander Verse
Author    Elisabeth Eybers
Edition    Fourth Edition, Hardcover with Dust Jacket - Printed in 1000 copies
Publisher    Constantia, Stols, 1953 - Typography by A.A.M. Stols
Length    38 pages
Edition/Format:      Book : Afrikaans
Description:     38 p.  Cloth backed boards. Some offsetting to endpapers.

About the Author:
Elisabeth Eybers
Elisabeth Françoise Eybers was born on 26 February 1915 in Klerksdorp.
She grew up and attended school in Schweizer-Reneke where her father was a minister. At age 16 she went to study at the University of the Witwatersrand where she attained her BA-degree and BA Honours (with distinction). Thereafter she was a member of the arts desk at Die Vaderland as well as the editor of the magazine Die Moderne Vrou.
She made her debut in 1936 with the collection, Belydenis in die skemering, becoming the first woman to publish a volume of poetry in Afrikaans. In 1943 she became the first woman to receive the Hertzog Prize.
She departs for the Netherlands in 1961 - initially only for a year. She eventually settled and lived in Amsterdam for 46 years until her death on 1 September 2007 at age 92.
Eybers received several prizes, among others the Hertzog Prize (1943, 1971), the CNA Prize, the WA Hofmeyr Prize, the Old Mutual Prize and in the Netherlands she was also awarded the sought-after PC Hooft Prize (the most important Dutch literary prize), the Herman Gorter Prize and the Constantijn Huygens Prize.

Did you know?
·     Eybers was married with businessman Albert Wessels from whom she divorced later; three daughters and a son were born from the marriage. Her daughter Elisabeth Bradley is a well-known businesswoman and among others the chairman of Toyota South Africa.
·     Her volume, Die stil avontuur, was translated into English in collaboration with the poet Olga Kirsch.
·     Elisabeth received four honorary doctorates from four universities: the University of Witwatersrand (1972), the Rand Afrikaans University (1979), the University of Pretoria (1982) and the University of Stellenbosch (1990).
·     Her last four volumes were bilingual: Tydverdryf/Pastime (1996), Verbruikersverse/Consumer's Verse (1997), Winter-surplus (1999) and Valreep/Stirrup-cup (2005).
 

Limited Edition.  Hardcover with Dust Jacket.  Dust Jacket have some tears on the edges and top and bottom spine of cover is torn. Excellent binding.  Rare Limited Edition book - for the collector.

From the late estate of an esteemed scholar and antiquarian, L.C. Bruwer.

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