Lit in Translation

Elsa Joubert

Born 1922 · South Africa

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    UJ-prys 2018 · Shortlist

    Cul-de-Sac

    Spertyd

    Elsa Joubert · 95 when first published

    Nonfiction · 212 pages

    AI-generated summary:The last part of a writer’s autobiographical trilogy, about her later years in a retirement home in Cape Town, where her experience of the present is woven together with memories reaching much further back.

  • No English yet

    UJ-prys 2010 · Winner

    Reisiger

    Title translated by AI:“Traveller”

    Elsa Joubert · 87 when first published

    Nonfiction · 488 pages