Born 1954 · South Africa
UJ-prys 2024 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Bones”
Etienne van Heerden · 69 when first published
Novel · 408 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:Magistrate Imker Goedeman arrives by an unexpected train in Gebeente, a hamlet on the Forgotten Highway north of Sutherland that a sensational farm murder has shaken, to investigate a stranger case still: the theft of the Milky Way.
UJ-prys 2020 · Winner
Die biblioteek aan die einde van die wêreld
Etienne van Heerden · 65 when first published
Novel · 640 pages · Politics, Crime
AI-generated summary:An ill-considered tweet turns the attorney Ian Brand’s life to hell overnight; Thuli Khumalo, a student activist on a campus reeking of petrol and teargas, must choose between betraying her father and her principles; and a crossbow killer strikes ever more often in Cape Town.
UJ-prys 2018 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The World of Charlie Oeng”
Etienne van Heerden · 63 when first published
Novel · 560 pages
AI-generated summary:Tian Kilian saw his parents murdered on the night of the fireworks. Now he travels to Amsterdam and on to the East, on the trail of Charlie Oeng, also known as Gelatenheid or Chinees, to understand at last the pain of that time.
UJ-prys 2014 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Yo-Yo”
Etienne van Heerden · 59 when first published
Novel · 385 pages
AI-generated summary:In Paternoster, where the grey-haired former yo-yo showman Ludo Loeloeraai has come to rest at the end of a long road, Snaartjie Windvogel arrives from Matjiesfontein and crosses paths with Eenslie Maree, a newly qualified naval cadet.
UJ-prys 2009 · Winner
30 nagte in Amsterdam
Etienne van Heerden · 54 when first published
Novel · 518 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Henk de Melker, a museum curator in Somerset East who writes short monographs on obscure figures, learns from a letter that he is heir to his almost forgotten Aunt Zan, on condition that he spend thirty nights in her house in Amsterdam.