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Cecile Cilliers

Born 1933 · South Africa

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    UJ-prys 2019 · Shortlist

    Die ou vrou en die priester en ander verhale

    Title translated by AI:“The Old Woman and the Priest and Other Stories”

    Cecile Cilliers · 85 when first published

    Short stories · 160 pages

    AI-generated summary:Stories told from a woman’s point of view, among them one about a schoolgirl’s unanswered love for an older man that marks the rest of her life, and one about the power of smell that brings back a lost world of hatboxes and furs.