Marlene van Niekerk
Marlene van Niekerk is a South African poet and short-story writer, as well as being author of the celebrated novels Triomf and Agaat (The Way of the Women). The Swan Whisperer, a collaboration with William Kentridge for the Cahiers Series, was published in 2015. She is Professor of Afrikaans and Dutch literature and Creative Writing at Stellenbosch University, and was a finalist for the Man International Booker Prize in 2015.
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