Title Junior verseboek. 'n Bloemlesing uit die Afrikaanse poësie vir die middelbare skool. ([Compiled by] D. J. Opperman.) Negentiende, bygewerkte druk
Author Diederik Johannes Opperman
Publisher Tafelberg, 1972
Length 147 pages
Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket has some pit marks. The emerald green cloth boards are in very good condition. The book in very good condition - clean and tightly bound. The book is in Afrikaans.
DJ Opperman - Biographical info
Diederik Johannes (D.J.) Opperman was born on a farm near Dundee in KwaZulu-Natal on September 29, 1914. He went to school in Estcourt and Vryheid. He obtained an MA Degree from the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg in 1935 and his Doctorate from the University of Cape Town in 1953. He was a teacher in Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg and a journalist with Die Huisgenoot in Cape Town from 1946 to 1948. He lectured at the University of Cape Town for 10 years. From 1960 to 1979 Opperman was professor in Afrikaans literature at the University of Stellenbosch. In this time he ran the famous Literary Laboratory. D.J. Opperman suffered a stroke in 1981 and died in Stellenbosch on September 22, 1985.
D.J. Opperman, one of the most famous Afrikaans poets, published his first book of poetry, Heilige beeste, in 1945 and received the Hertzog Prize for poetry in 1947. He received the Hertzog Prize on three more occasions: Periandros van Korinthe (for drama, 1956), Voëlvry (for drama, 1969) and Komas uit ’n bamboesstok (for poetry, 1980). He also received the CNA, WA Hofmeyr and Louis Luyt prizes for Komas uit ’n bamboesstok. Opperman was also known as compiler of anthologies, the most famous of which was Groot Verseboek (the first one appeared in 1956) and Kleuterverseboek. In 2000 the book Sonklong oor Afrika, on which he was working at the time of his death, was published.
Did you know?
In 1976 he spent seven months in a comatose condition due to cirrhosis of the liver. He made an extraordinary recovery. The autobiographical book of poetry, Komas uit ’n bamboesstok (1979), is about this period.
The Literary Laboratory was a workshop for emerging poets and writers in Afrikaans. Some of the eminent poets, writers and literary critics who attended this laboratory were Lina Spies, Daniel Hugo, Erika Murray-Theron, Joan Hambidge, Fanie Olivier, Marlene van Niekerk, Etienne Britz and Louise Viljoen.
His daughter, Trienke Laurie, is also a poet. She received the Ingrid Jonker Prize for her first book of poetry, Skietspoel, in 1997.
He wrote three verse dramas: Periandros van Korinthe (1955), Vergelegen (1956) and Voëlvry (1968).
He was closely involved with the magazine Standpunte and was also a prominent selector of manuscripts for Nasionale Pers, Human & Rousseau and Tafelberg.
Another excellent addition to your collection from the personal collection of esteemed scholar and antiquarian, L.C. Bruwer.
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